My New Desktop

Time for a change... This is a big one! Wayland... Hyprland... Systemdboot... I've done it all.

[manuelgeorgiev]

Man that all looks amazing, I would love to see a more in depth explanation of the Windows VM integration as well as the whole Arch side setup!

[raminsamadi]

This is probably the best OS experience I've ever had. Animations, performance and ui are amazing. Have not seen anything like it yet. I hope there will be an easier install for this, until then I'll use a backup. 👍

[lex_darlog_fun]

Hi Chris,
What would be *VERY* interesting is a detailed walkthrough-guide on your "not just a VM, but a *specialized* VM". As soon as I heard "GPU passthrough", I immediately got to the edge of my seat.

I'm a long-time Linux wannabe (using penguin only for my selfmade NAS so far) and THE ONLY things that stop me from swithcing to Linux are:
- Games which I *DO* want to play with DLSS/hdr/etc
- Win-only professional CG software. We all hate adobe and yet we all are still stuck with it..

... But also, we all have CPUs with a plenty of cores nowadays. Even if I'd have to dedicate one core / 2 threads from my 8/16 - I'd immediately switch to Manjaro with no second thought, *BUT ONLY IF* I'd get *exactly* the same full "windows-on-bare-metal" experience in any other sense.

And I believe, there are plenty of people like me. The entire CG community basically consists of people who are either adepts of Tim Cook cult or looking for any way to avoid upcoming forced migration to Win11.

[RadioactiveBlueberry]

Pulling out 56 seconds uptime after all the stuff you managed to do since the last boot, is very impressive. Productivity at its peak.

[memo_force]

we need an installation video for beginners and your customization.

[belaircomputerguyllc]

definitely one of my favorite channels. You were on the edge for a second there, about a year ago, but the comeback has been amazing. As a tech firm owner, I've learned a ton from you. Thank you for the vids.

[joelnordangard]

Would love a guide on the Windows VM setup you have here! GPU passthrough looks really interesting! Keep up the amazing work!

[louisfifteen]

This is way beyond my paygrade. I'm out of here

[umopplsdn]

i've been daily driving hyprland for almost a year now solidly and I couldn't have had a better time. Literally PERFECT

[simeonjohnston]

The Win VM is exactly what I’m looking for and would love to see a video on that setup.

[LeDragoX]

It's always amazing to see your creations!

[Torxed]

I think the boot entry name is an artifact from `archinstall`. Apologies for the half confusing default :) We can add `arch_` to the entry name.

[Mockedarche_old]

that is insanely clean and really lean. I personally am not a fan of the top menu items (feel like the benefit of that information vs the space isn't worth). But I will say that is probably my goal setup. It's so dang snappy and seems like a great work setup.

[vencemarron]

This is amazing! The animations are so smooth! The top part of the screen is very informative but not cluttered! This may be your masterpiece. I'd even pay for this. I'd love to do this on my Fedora...

[bstar]

I recently setup Hyprland (now that I have an AMD card) and it's been pretty incredible. No issues getting it going on Arch, but I did need to use the AUR extensively and had to use Xwayland for some things.

My only issue with Hyprland is that I realized that I really don't like auto tilers. I've been using i3 for a couple years now and it's just better for me. My plan is to finish configuring Sway and ultimately move to that, but it's a pain to get that to where Hyprland is out of the box.

These wayland based tilers are incredible and wayland is ready for prime time, but I also have no issues using Xorg (I'm in i3 right now). What I time to be alive.

[MCgranat]

Naming your store CTTstore is both, something I should expect and on the other hand, the most genius name style a YT channel store can have nowadays xP

[PNCH]

Maaaann, that look gorgeous! It brought me back to 2009/10 CompizFusion times but with all the current improvements!

[agentooeAD]

The AMD Ryzen 5000 series are great CPUs. The one you're running is pretty solid 6c/12t. I'm running a 5800x myself, and see no reason to upgrade. Right now I'm working on migrating my data to a new SSD so I can free up a couple of the ones I'm currently using so I can do some Linux learning and experimenting. I'm glad you put out these videos, so when I'm ready, I can go through and dive into the Linux world.

[HikariKnight]

Thanks for the quickpassthrough shoutout!
i should be back to working on it after march as i am in the middle of sorting out personal stuff and have been for a while, however i made sure to get quickpassthrough feature complete for passing through your 2nd graphic card before i had to go on my hiatus and i have actually been using it for all my passthrough VMs for the past year.

The only thing it does not handle as of right now is single gpu passthrough and taking into account systems with an active ACS override in either kernel or firmware level (i have a motherboard with firmware level ACS override, its pretty sweet), other than that the project is stable 😄

[NoxyYT]

I'd love to switch to this kind of setup. I'm wondering how user friendly can looking glass and windows vms get. I'd rather have windows VM in linux than linux VM in windows (wsl2 is awkward when it comes to networking).