Mac User Installs Arch Linux for First Time

Real Apple Mac user installs Arch Linux on his M1 MacBook Air. He did not enjoy it btw.

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#Apple #Linux #WaterAndOil

'Escape the ordinary. Embrace the FUNKY!'

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Copyright FUNKY TIME PRODUCTIONS 2023

[SAMTIME]

Big thanks to Incogni for sponsoring this adventure into Arch, btw!

[VelvetelToo]

“The arch Linux website is the most Linux website I’ve ever seen” just wait until he finds the gentoo wiki

[lasue]

It was pretty funny video. On a serious note if anyone wants to actually try Linux, don’t be take this as your expected experience. Sam is running Asahi Linux which is in alpha. It’s still insanely impressive because Asahi team had to reverse engineer all drivers for M1 Mac. Also final Asahi won’t be Arch based but will be based on fedora, which is a lot more friendly.

[mooseh]

Running Linux literally on the least supported device

[truthmatters]

Audio will be enabled once it is guaranteed to work flawlessly. The speakers are one of the few components that you can actually physically damage if a bug causes the wrong signal to be sent to the speakers. If you crash your computer that's one thing, but blowing out your speakers will mean you have to get a repair done, and we all know how bad apple is with repair 😜

[deadeye]

Asahi linux is experimental distro which they built with reverse-engineering the m1 architecture. it's pretty impressive what they accomplished and its still in experimental state for dev use only. obviously most features won't work.

[biscotty]

"Tell me everything I'm doing wrong.": Installing Arch. Everything else wrong is a logical consequence.

[MasterGeekMX]

Asahi isn't linux "made easy" for the mac. Is a massive project that takes linux and adapts it to run on the new M-series macs, as they not only use ARM CPU's (unlike most of computers out there that use x86 CPU's), but they have custom graphics and other stuff that they need to reverse engineer as there is no documentation or anything about them.

It initally used Arch as their base, but recently they made a partnership with Fedora to use them as base instead.

[CG_Hali]

Sam proving that though he's only got one ball now, he still dares the world like he's got 2 humongous ones!

[oussama]

the reason you had a terrible experience is that you didn't install [Insert linux distro here]

[altrogeruvah]

Who in the right mind suggests Arch + KDE to a macOS user... I feel sorry for everyone who watches this video and might think "wow, Linux looks as ugly and obtuse as I've always imagined it to be" and frankly, rightfully so. Linux doesn't have to be hard! Something like Fedora or Debian + GNOME can sit much better on the hands of a macOS user, much better and familiar UI/UX experience.

[ekim]

> Install a developing version of an unstable distro on unsupported hardware

> “WhY dIdN’t StUfF wOrK oUt Of ThE bOx?”

[arrayindexoutofboundsexcep]

Installing Arch and expecting that everything works is like saying "I buy a house" and just buy the bricks and then complain that the kitchen stove doesn't work properly.

[unicodefox]

1:03 - Asahi Linux isn't an easier way to install Arch Linux. Its a project for making Linux run on M1. While there is a distro called Asahi Linux that you can install on your machine today, in the future, the goal is for there to be no such thing as Asahi Linux you install, you just install Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc for M1 which includes all the M1 drivers and special sauces

4:16 - Audio through the internal speakers would be possible to enable today if they wanted to - however, they still haven't worked out all the proper safeties and tunings to prevent your speakers from blowing up. Apparently, this contains a lot of very complex math (like having to simulate the temperature of the speakers).

The Asahi developers in general are very focused on doing things *right* before doing it fast.

[edwardecl]

Now try Windows on your M1 mac...

The fact that it works at all is impressive considering people had to reverse engineer the hardware drivers, also it's "alpha".

[Spencer-wcew]

The Arch wiki used to have a setup page that was way friendlier to beginners.
But it violated the wiki's rule of "assume people read every page you link to and repeat no info"

[gmingaz]

Please do a part two. This was super fun to watch!

[Hatchray]

Arch users are screaming at their screens in rage watching I love it.

[TheZedrem]

Fun fact: website (the safari browser engine that the chrome one is also based on) is based on KHTML, a browser engine made by KDE.
So basically, safari is a Linux

/s

[APPLPE]

Debian user here, probably the worst thing to install Linux on is a Mac. Like, seriously.