Want a PERFECT Linux Setup? Watch This Now

**This video was sponsored by Brilliant**

In this video, we're going to configure our i3 configuration to look amazing. Our configuration out of the box for i3wm is not that great, but with a few packages we can make it look AWESOME. Let's get into it. Linux with i3wm is powerful and with the right configuration it can be amazing.

Chapters:
0:00 - intro
2:05 - lets make our font bigger
3:01 - how to refresh our config
3:15 - installing yay - an AUR helper
6:16 - nerdfonts!
7:30 - today's sponsor - Brilliant
8:40 - picom - an X11 compositor
11:46 - configuring alacritty with catppuccin
13:06 - polybar - an amazing and easy to use status bar
18:21 - a nice desktop background
20:31 - Rofi as an app launcher and switcher
24:54 - vim motions for windows, AND catppuccin colors in i3

[ohf]

RICEing comes from the car world where you would modify your Honda Civic. It stands for Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements. It's funny how it still applies on Linux 😂

[Alright_OK]

something I recently learnt was that you can do "sudo !!" to run the last command with sudo, super helpful if you forget to start a command like pacman with sudo

I think this channel is just the best we have about Linux and Vim stuff right now. Very good job, thank you!

[LightningMcCream]

Great timing!
I used to be a big i3wm guy when I started my linux journey, but I got lazy and bounced back to Gnome.
These days I've been craving a tiling window manager, and just yesterday I installed i3wm, awesome and hyprland

Gonna try this config for my i3. cheers

[farzadmf]

I wish I had a resource like this when I started using i3; LOVED the video; great job!

[vishaldinesh]

You are literally the only guy I keep checking for new uploads, last time it was the Neovim config and this time Arch with i3 btw.
Thanks.... nerd !

[Mcgenix]

Normally, I don't expect to watch a video, but I was waiting for this one to watch. Thanks, man!

[joshwalters]

@typecraft_dev I love everything about this channel. Your humor, detailed walkthrus and explanations while moving at a nice pace, and even your intro. I can't get enough!

[Mohitkumar-zzmp]

to be honest i was waiting for this one for many days dude, thank for helping me to rice my linux,

[neaudavid]

Bet! I'm totally doing thing after my semester ends, nice tutorial!

[BrunoVinicius-ixwt]

I've been following this channel ever since that first video about neovim configurations and I really love where this is going. Thank you Chris, and please keep up the awesome work!

[christopherwood]

these videos are actually what is getting to plan to switch from ubuntu to arch/i3. havent done that yet because it always kinda scared me but these videos make it super approachable

[aliqyan]

I love I3WM and I started using it after I saw your video about how different youtubers desktop look like that...Thanks Nerd for introducing me to it.

[PedroMorenoSantanna]

Thanks so much for this video series. Kinda new to Linux and was struggling to set up qtile. Your video made using tilling wms intuitive. You made i3 soooo easy to set up. I didn't feel like I was copying code, I felt like I knew what I was doing. Great!

[nulldmg]

Having the status bar on the bottom is heresy... subbed

[tjdgmlchl]

thank you for breaking things down step by step and explaining the WHY behind each step too!

[RoboKestrel]

Hey thanks a TON for this. I've got Hyprland running on my non-nVidia machines but my main PC just won't play nice with it. Haven't had the time to focus on getting a sane i3 setup, so you really helped cut through the crap and get me up and running fast. I've now got my i3 config to roughly match hyprland so all the hotkeys are the same, etc. Wonderful stuff. So much better than managing free floating windows.

[rc]

Oh yeh! I love i3. It's my only wm. Great video.

[resofactor]

Lots of useful tips here.
Especially learning how to install/use Yay.
Thanks.

[RoyBolter]

Please put an epilepsy warning or something before you switch between the terminal and Firefox really fast, thank you and I am loving the series so far!