Archcraft: The BEST Arch-Based Distro?

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  • Опубліковано 27 гру 2024

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  • @TheLinuxCast
    @TheLinuxCast  2 роки тому +18

    Want more Linux content? I bitch and moan about Linux a lot over on Twitter: twitter.com/thelinuxcast

    • @rivubardhan6376
      @rivubardhan6376 2 роки тому +2

      check i3 of archcraft....its 👌

    • @Steerable6827
      @Steerable6827 2 роки тому

      a lot of the styles (like the windows one) use picom for cool effects, but picom did not start because of an error. you need to disable vsync in picom.conf and reboot :)

    • @dcvalenzuela4540
      @dcvalenzuela4540 2 роки тому

      wanna ask, what is fav DE in Linux? Should the Linux community focus on promoting using the DE more the distro per se just to not overwhelm the new users? coz I think most Windows users are more concerned about is the UI and get their basic SOHO done fast.

  • @raizenftw4543
    @raizenftw4543 2 роки тому +72

    I think Archcraft is the best way to get into window managers and get a feel of them. If you like Archcraft, then you can make your own arch install with a window manager.

    • @bujitself
      @bujitself 2 роки тому +2

      That's how I got into i3

    • @human__________
      @human__________ 2 роки тому +1

      ehhhhhhhh... if you like the themes and don't want to have to do anything with the system archcraft just works. If you want to actually be more hands on Arco is probably a better choice. And pretty much every WM is available for it. (with themes)

    • @newtonbomb
      @newtonbomb 2 роки тому

      @@human__________ Arco ftw. I've had the best experience with it over any other Arch centric distros I've tried.

  • @thingsiplay
    @thingsiplay 2 роки тому +16

    12:52 Small correction here: You can use timeshift with any filesystem, not only if you choose BTRFS. I use it on Manjaro with EXT4.

    • @human__________
      @human__________ 2 роки тому +1

      yep. that's why i don't bother with btrfs anymore. it's just another layer of complexity that isn't needed and some games don't like it. LVM2 is another option as well that makes backups easy. And you can edit partitions on the fly without even needing to reboot.

    • @thingsiplay
      @thingsiplay 2 роки тому +8

      @@human__________ But BTRFS has some huge advantages, in example instant backup. It only takes a second or couple of seconds, instead of half an hour (at least in my case). It would make it possible to automatically backup everytime you install or boot your PC, without having to wait for anything. So there are still advantages, but I am not sure if it is ready for me.

    • @human__________
      @human__________ 2 роки тому +1

      yep that's fair.

    • @webflyer035
      @webflyer035 2 роки тому +3

      @@human__________ you can directly restore your Timeshift backup from grub menu (this feature is only supported in btrfs)

    • @Perry....
      @Perry.... 2 роки тому

      @@thingsiplay If you people are gonna be so fucking obsessed and freakish about backing up and saving data all the time then at that point you need to throw your computer away and go outside. This argument is just ridiculous

  • @ariathyf144
    @ariathyf144 2 роки тому +11

    That's what I call an user friendly distro :
    Keybingds are presented, choices for noob & advanced installing options.
    To me the BEST RICE SWITCHING experience I've seen on linux, it is fast, fully applyed, simple to change and refine.
    KDE really need to take some notes there.
    Not to forget Low on resources..
    Thanks for testing it on actual hardware, I wish more reviewers do this.

  • @faustipez
    @faustipez 2 роки тому +8

    Thank you Matt. This is a very detailed review and it is exactly what I wanted. I'm having a ton of issues with Plasma after it's latest update and I want to use something lighter, of course Tiling Window Managers are my top choice but I don't have the time right now to learns and setup everything as I want. This looks wonderful out of the box, so it comes very convenient to me.

  • @thenextpoetician6328
    @thenextpoetician6328 2 роки тому +24

    Aditya knows his stuff. If you've checked his Wayland setups, you'd be impressed also, imo.

    • @1Abdullah
      @1Abdullah 2 роки тому

      is it stable ?
      I wanna download it

    • @thenextpoetician6328
      @thenextpoetician6328 2 роки тому +1

      @@1Abdullah It's Arch-based, so it depends on upstream and you. Give it a spin in a VM for a while. You'll see if you like it.

  • @nixter57
    @nixter57 2 роки тому +1

    One of the FEW Distro's (Arch or Other) I've been able to "Successfully Install" On my Compaq CQ58Laptop !! Didn't have the Cohone's to use Calamaris Installer (For some Reason??) Fortunately for Me...they also INCLUDED the CLI , NCURSES based Installer for "LOW SPEC" machines like mine (Only a 1Ghz Dual-Core AMD APU/4GB Ram ) "Outstanding" !!

  • @itildude
    @itildude 2 роки тому +37

    This is extremely impressive out of the box. They definitely put a lot of time into this.

  • @MarkDavidMcCoskey
    @MarkDavidMcCoskey 2 роки тому +1

    I have 1 machine with Archcraft. I like it. I like the looks. I used Calamares with Openbox, Polybar on a NUC sized N6000 MSI box. Added Erik's Archlinux Tweak Tool. I appreciate the slimmer, leaner builds. My needs are simple, so I don't need much.

  • @jeffrodrequez
    @jeffrodrequez 2 роки тому +1

    Obviously I've heard of Archcraft but never really looked at it before. I have generally stayed away from window managers because I can't use tiling window managers (it just doesn't do well with my work flow). As such I have not really looked into any of them - made the ASSumption ;-) that they were all tiling. I've heard of OpenBox but didn't know it was a floating window manager. I do enjoy Arch, in fact currently running XeroLinux as one of my daily drivers, and have recently dug into Polybar thanks to your video! Add that to the themes which look amazing and I think I am going to give this a whirl and see how it goes. Thanks for doing the video, sir!

  • @yomboprime
    @yomboprime 2 роки тому +1

    About the display not powering off, it happens in some other distros as well. It is a bug that has to do with DPMS.

  • @hiii4805
    @hiii4805 2 роки тому +1

    What do you do about colorschemes that doesn't directly give you the pallete but they give you some vim file so how do you get the pallete?

  • @themroc8231
    @themroc8231 2 роки тому +3

    So which do you prefer? Archcraft or Axyl Linux? I thing the theme switcher is more advanced in Archcraft, but the themes -particularly the polybar and rofi themes - are more elaborate on Axyl.

    • @TheLinuxCast
      @TheLinuxCast  2 роки тому +3

      Archcraft

    • @themroc8231
      @themroc8231 2 роки тому

      @@TheLinuxCast Hey Mat! Given how you are a Fedora guy now, have you ever tried Qubes OS? I even saw on Unixp**n that there are people who manage to use it with tiling WMs, keeping colour-coded window borders per virtual machine apparently, which seems to be the ultimate ricing challenge. I'd like to see you make some Qubes OS content, there isn't much about it on UA-cam.

  • @taidee
    @taidee 2 роки тому +4

    I’ve got say at this point that the Archlinux world is just shining brighter with distros like this and what Eric Dubois & Team from Arcolinux have archived with Archlinux Tweak Tool (ATT), the ATT basically removes the need for using most Arch-based distros to just building up your Arch with as many DEs and TWMs as you want. Arch Craft here still makes a solid reason to exist.

  • @PrateekTade
    @PrateekTade 2 роки тому +2

    They use the awesome vimrc by amix, so it also has a lot of plugins pre-installed.

  • @nyft3352
    @nyft3352 2 роки тому +3

    I learned about archcraft about a month ago, fell in love with the idea although i felt like a dumbass for using a preconfigured and pre-riced arch distro... that felling changed as soon as i started playing around with bspwm and learnin how it works. To be honest, I think archcraft is a perfect distro for users who want to learn about both tiling and floating wm as it comes with a stable and preconfigured environment to get familiar with bspwm instead of setting everything up for yourself (as a newcomer to wms of course) and then you can change stuff as you please.
    One downside I found is the lack of documentation on how everything is configured cuz I learned forcibly that a lot of dotfiles arent where theyre supposed to be or they are not written in the typical way (ive compared archcraft default dotfiles to unixp*rn users and so fr its quite different but maybe its just me being a noob).
    Anyways, great and beautiful ditro, could use better documentation and a bigger community.

  • @code8986
    @code8986 2 роки тому +1

    16:39 Hey Rofi, how many themes are there to pick from? Oh, 20 + infinity

  • @MarkusHobelsberger
    @MarkusHobelsberger 2 роки тому +2

    This distro looks awesome. As someone who's using Xfce on most machines, I really like the Xfce-based approach without using the full Xfce DE. I'd definitely give this a shot if I wanted to run Arch.

    • @rarminqorset3628
      @rarminqorset3628 2 роки тому

      I think they have an xfce version. I even have scripts for changing themes just like these

  • @habituallearner7680
    @habituallearner7680 Рік тому

    Just when I thought I'd settled down for a while with Arco, here comes this gorgeous distro! I love that it comes with Vim already set up with vim-awesome. I've never considered trying Openbox simply because if I'm going to go for a window manager I want a tiler, but that looks good. Darn good. I love me some eye candy, but the many customizations in this distro seem to have been crafted with a great deal of care. Must try! And Thank you for installing this on an actual machine.

  • @sumankumardas3273
    @sumankumardas3273 2 роки тому +1

    There have theming system also in openbox preference>change styles And in BSPWM ctrl+alt+t using the system you can change the look of your system it's very liking very very good.
    I m using so long Archcraft alongside archlabs and Archcraft is so good in my opinion. For every day usage. in Bspwm gruvbox theme is tremendous I love it

  • @franciscoidalgo1706
    @franciscoidalgo1706 2 роки тому +3

    Nice video! I really like some of the scripts and themes in Archcraft, although I'm a sucker for qTile. I ended up adding qTile to Archcraft by myself even though I had no real reason to do so and I gotta say I'm pretty happy with the results so far hehehe

  • @theblowupdollsmusic
    @theblowupdollsmusic 2 роки тому

    I want to use this distro so bad, but I am unable to get it to scale larger on a 4k display. Everything is too small.

  • @pergius
    @pergius 2 роки тому +1

    Looks great, have to try as main on my laptop

  • @cryofwill1416
    @cryofwill1416 2 роки тому +1

    How to remove the music player on the bar?

    • @TheLinuxCast
      @TheLinuxCast  2 роки тому +2

      If you're using the OpenBox session go to .config/openbox/polybar. Open the config file in an editor, find the line that says modules-center and make sure that there is nothing after the = sign.

  • @CarlosRodriguez-xk9ot
    @CarlosRodriguez-xk9ot 2 роки тому +1

    It is the only kind of distro you should really consider for rock stable productivity with well balanced theming, no flickering etc!

  • @firdausahmad760
    @firdausahmad760 2 роки тому

    i try to install archcraft, but always get error: Dependency failed for qemu guest agent
    any idea?

  • @TheRealFaceyNeck
    @TheRealFaceyNeck 2 роки тому

    Hi!
    Are you going to stick to Fedora long-term as your daily driver? I think you said that in a video recently.
    I'm happy I made the switch, I don't think I'm going back to Arch, or Arch's ilk.

    • @TheLinuxCast
      @TheLinuxCast  2 роки тому

      I'm still on fedora. This was on a spare hard drive

  • @KiLoB0-WoW
    @KiLoB0-WoW Рік тому

    I see people hating on the creator for charging for a “prime” version or for wayland compositors. However the amount of work adi has put into this is astounding and I think worth it

  • @willywantoknow2563
    @willywantoknow2563 Рік тому

    Thanks for the review. Im newish to the linux distros, but ive done enough hopping to know that i like xfce, I'm wanting to play with open box to learn more on an old pc but not willing to start from scratch.
    Any distro out there that is plug and play (good music media, office and a engineering program, run a couple really old microsoft games.) Just would like something with no bloat. I dont need internet so much.

  • @CNich90
    @CNich90 4 місяці тому

    Wowzers, I just installed vanilla arch and have been painfully filling in all the gaps (good learning experience I should add) but dang this looks amazing. Thinking to wipe what I have done and roll with this.

  • @jesse7631
    @jesse7631 2 роки тому

    Nice review, Matt; I am going to check it out.

  • @williamsmith3169
    @williamsmith3169 2 роки тому

    I've used lots of Arch derivatives and I'm yet to find one that does not present with a problem sooner or later. Never had screen saver issues but have had lots of other problems from screen flicker, failure to implement some hardware, stop jobs, screen and browser issues and system crashes to the command line. By contrast pure Arch has been much simpler and more consistently robust. I'll be sticking with it. As for looks with KDE you can make it looks as nice as you wish.

  • @MrWarneet
    @MrWarneet 2 роки тому +3

    A great intro to WM for newbz.. In some ways a deeper dive than Arco.

  • @FrasSmith
    @FrasSmith 2 роки тому +1

    Matt, Matt, Matt, sigh… I'm happy on Fedora, why did you show me this beauty? Now I'm going to have to install it on my spare partition or maybe a VM. 🙂 Seriously though, this looks like a very polished distro. I'm impressed.

    • @musashi_kun
      @musashi_kun 2 роки тому

      Same here! 😂 what to do now...

  • @rarminqorset3628
    @rarminqorset3628 2 роки тому +2

    I personally respect the creator of Archcraft. He contributed a lot to polybar, eww, and rofi. Also for newbies to get into Arch.

    • @rarminqorset3628
      @rarminqorset3628 2 роки тому

      @yea well yea we long time Arch users almost use our own flavour and personal touch not anyone else's

  • @BrazenNL
    @BrazenNL 2 роки тому

    I don't care much about how things looks, except for using low contrast colors that I like, but man, that looks very nice indeed.

  • @dany08011
    @dany08011 2 роки тому

    This is not short of creating a DE, I wolud love to have like a Craft-desktop pkg to install this desktop on fedora or an existing Arch install

  • @TheMostTruth
    @TheMostTruth 2 роки тому

    I use base Arch on most of my machines, but gosh darnit... When it's time for next reinstall i might give this a go with openbox. (Never really ran OB since it was a "pain" to rice i.m.o) Super!

  • @joaopauloalbq
    @joaopauloalbq 2 роки тому +1

    10:20 few people know how to use VIM, it's not intuitive at all. If you know how to use VIM, congratulations, you are able to install it easily with a simple command

  • @notsibas
    @notsibas 2 роки тому

    nice vid matt

  • @benny982
    @benny982 2 роки тому +1

    I use archcraft about 3weaks now and i like it

  • @nymnicholas
    @nymnicholas 2 роки тому

    They have put in a lot of work for that Distro. Not tried it, since I go Pure Arch, but if there is a need to rush for time, maybe try this. Peace :-)

  • @jongeduard
    @jongeduard 2 роки тому

    I agree about Vim! I have absolutely nothing against Nano, but the user should easily be able to choose from any of those at any time (like I still do :)).
    Looks nice! Personally I have not much experience with the old window managers, except some Fluxbox (which, like Openbox, is also configured by file) and Window Maker trying on Slackware Linux (yep, I have also tried that distro :)). But this Openbox stuff has been done nicely!

  • @themroc8231
    @themroc8231 2 роки тому

    Hey Matt, why don't you try Archcrafts other WMs? According to their site they have like 10 other riced WMs you can install, but literally no one reviews those on youtube.

    • @TheLinuxCast
      @TheLinuxCast  2 роки тому +1

      I didn't see them on their GitHub until after.

    • @themroc8231
      @themroc8231 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheLinuxCast They kind of advertise them on the "gallery" page of their website, but not much more.
      But as I said: literally no one reviewed any of those on youtube ever when reviewing the distribution, it might be something you might enjoy trying.

  • @camerong4944
    @camerong4944 2 роки тому +1

    To be completely fair I haven’t been much of a TWM kind of person. I wasn’t much of an Openbox user either. Now that I’ve had time with Openbox, EASY and fun to configure. Brings me back to 2010 when I went Linux full time with Ubuntu from Windows. So much customization compared to a full DE.

  • @peterjantzer4767
    @peterjantzer4767 2 роки тому

    Looked at Archcraft and Mabox using hardware vs virtual. Chose Mabox but it was close.

  • @irlshrek
    @irlshrek 2 роки тому

    I want to try this!

  •  2 роки тому

    A new distro for me, great video. Thanks

  • @BinarySmurf
    @BinarySmurf 2 роки тому +4

    My overall takeaway from this is that the archcraft/openbox combo and the minimal installation of apps is pretty much my perfect setup as a basic Linux install and an excellent foundation to build on. Great video. I couldn't care less about Vim, as we're not in the 70s and I'll use something like micro any day of the week. 😁

  • @ex0ja
    @ex0ja Рік тому

    This looks awesome but the fact I haven't seen other youtubers talk about it makes me think there must be something wrong with it haha

  • @taidee
    @taidee 2 роки тому +2

    Great work has been done on this distro. Thanks Matt for reviewing this, I’ll check it out on a VM.

  • @phonemophoneko
    @phonemophoneko 2 роки тому

    actually i loved archcraft.. i used it my streaming PC and its the best looking riced distro

  • @distant6606
    @distant6606 2 роки тому

    Archcraft is good when starting out but is impossible to keep as main distro when u're used to arcolinux s built-in functionality (apps tools etc)

  • @Nepoxification
    @Nepoxification 2 роки тому

    Have you checked out Garuda Linux yet?
    It's imo one of the good arch-based distroy like archcraft. They do much more than just put a bunch of bloat and a theme on there.

  • @giannis_kapelakos
    @giannis_kapelakos 2 роки тому

    If they make a FedoraCraft I will definitely switch to it

  • @richardsinclair7661
    @richardsinclair7661 2 роки тому +1

    Archcraft looks cool, but my favorite Arch-based Linux distro is EndeavourOS for the forseeable future.

  • @ArniesTech
    @ArniesTech 2 роки тому

    Although I am not in the Arch camp myself now, from personal experience I still give it to Manjaro 🤗

    • @ex-voto
      @ex-voto 2 роки тому

      I run Manjaro & Archcraft. One is slick & managed, the other more hands on & fun.

  • @ΟΕυδαίμων
    @ΟΕυδαίμων 2 роки тому

    Vi is preinstalled in Arch I believe

  • @herveveve6189
    @herveveve6189 2 роки тому +1

    I like Archcraft 💪🇨🇵

  • @daniel85mg
    @daniel85mg 2 роки тому

    Great Review,

  • @parthitachattopadhyay
    @parthitachattopadhyay 2 роки тому

    Best distro out there for me

  • @IMBREISGAU
    @IMBREISGAU 2 роки тому

    ngl looks spectacular... but I still content with my EndeavourOS

  • @vineetkumar3422
    @vineetkumar3422 2 роки тому

    maybe get a new camera? love the content btw!

  • @sknfer
    @sknfer 2 роки тому

    10:12 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Tentri
    @Tentri Рік тому

    I'm sure this video is awesome but I can't help noticing that you have a framed Angry Birds™ poster

  • @madsnygaard6444
    @madsnygaard6444 Рік тому

    Archcraft is beyond impressive…

  • @moneyfr
    @moneyfr 2 роки тому

    Explain what is core differences between Debian fedora arch

    • @TheLinuxCast
      @TheLinuxCast  2 роки тому

      Package managers and rate of release.

  • @T500Kz
    @T500Kz 2 роки тому +1

    If you can’t use archinstall to get a DE or WM of vanilla arch going maybe it’s time to choose a different distro

  • @Tzalim
    @Tzalim 2 роки тому +2

    Garuda is my best arch-based distro. But like I've been saying... The BEST distro is the one that's best for you. There isn't no BEST arch-based distro or any best distro. Just saying!

    • @TheLinuxCast
      @TheLinuxCast  2 роки тому +4

      Oh, I know, but click bait works. *shrugs*

    • @Tzalim
      @Tzalim 2 роки тому

      @@TheLinuxCast I know that you know... I was just saying. But click bait does work. Like your videos by the way. Some pretty useful info. 😀

  • @992Archer
    @992Archer Рік тому

    Part of making a good distro is making it run good out of the box. It should in the very least be able to connect via WiFi and Archcraft has trouble with that. And so do some other Distros. I really wanted to make Archcraft my daily driver but sadly it can’t even connect me to the internet and believe me I’ve tried a number of things and nothing. Epic Fail.

    • @ProfShibe
      @ProfShibe Місяць тому

      i know this is old, but i have it on my desktop and laptop and never had issues. So its been resolved now it seems.

  • @milosdjeric2495
    @milosdjeric2495 2 роки тому

    I just use Fedora and newer ben happier.

  • @LucianC137
    @LucianC137 2 роки тому

    Finally!

  • @FrBrossard
    @FrBrossard 2 роки тому

    非常好👌🏻

  • @itsfish8672
    @itsfish8672 2 роки тому

    GVM.

  • @Abdelkrim.
    @Abdelkrim. 2 роки тому +1

    The most beautiful distro out the box and the most unstable distro I ever try unfortunately

  • @androth1502
    @androth1502 2 роки тому

    -they don't use systemd, other than that- it looks ok. something i would've liked when i was running arch. -but no systemd is a deal breaker for me. not because i like systemd or anything, i really don't care. but because i have hardware that depends on systemd.-

    • @andbenn
      @andbenn 2 роки тому

      Are you sure about not using systemd? Archcraft being Arch based, not using systemd is a lot of overhead on the package side for the maintainer(s).

    • @TheLinuxCast
      @TheLinuxCast  2 роки тому

      IDK where you heard that it doesn't use systemd, because it definitely does. I just checked.

    • @androth1502
      @androth1502 2 роки тому

      @@andbenn my mistake. i must've been thinking about another distro i was looking at recently. maybe i was thinking of voidlinux.

  • @redrush-hp9li
    @redrush-hp9li 2 роки тому

    Nah who wants to have two 2 windows managers preinstalled 💀

    • @TheLinuxCast
      @TheLinuxCast  2 роки тому +1

      Me, I have three. Not preinstalled, tho

  • @EnrysonFerraz
    @EnrysonFerraz 2 роки тому

    easy question... ARCH...

  • @patpopov
    @patpopov 2 роки тому

    Yay! Bare metal!

  • @ajaym5583
    @ajaym5583 2 роки тому

    Thats an indian distro for you alright. and its not 'they' its just a single person if I'm not wrong

    • @TheLinuxCast
      @TheLinuxCast  2 роки тому +1

      They is the proper term these days.

    • @ajaym5583
      @ajaym5583 2 роки тому

      @@TheLinuxCast haha 100% True!!

    • @roberttranceedm
      @roberttranceedm 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheLinuxCast I help you with. The person is a he. You are welcome.

  • @darukutsu
    @darukutsu 2 роки тому

    The Best Arch based distro is Arch.
    Change my mind.

    • @TheLinuxCast
      @TheLinuxCast  2 роки тому +1

      Arch isn't Arch based, it's just Arch.

  • @werethless12
    @werethless12 2 роки тому

    Oh God... I cannot believe how bad this distro is, or even the point of it.
    They have the dumbest defaults set. The top bar is just huge and useless for 90% of what it shows, the borders on maximized windows.... Wtf???
    And the little icon in the top right of the screen when you have fullscreen apps running.
    Don't get the point of this garbage when Endeavour exists and is essentially just a default Arch install with a desktop.
    Archcraft is bad. They're reinventing too many wheels.

  • @tuxpirata4077
    @tuxpirata4077 2 роки тому

    Good video. Have you ever used BigLinux?