"Hey, DT. Why Arco Linux Instead Of Arch?" (Plus Other Questions Answered)
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- In this lengthy rant video, I address a few questions that I've been receiving from viewers. I discuss fake DistroTube accounts on social media, my thoughts on PeerTube, my experience with LBRY, my thoughts on Arco vs Arch vs Artix, and what UA-camrs have influenced my life.
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11:33 is what you're here for
i can't thank you enough
karma earned, thx
Wish I'd seen this at the start.
thank you goodman
Thanks! Good thing I scrolled down and saw this.
I switched to Linux from Mac because I couldn’t afford buying a new one every time Apple cuts off support. My 2006 MacPro runs Linux just fine and I love it!
Mine has 20 gigs of ram, ssd, amd radion 5770, two 4 tb hdd (for Plex), one 2 tb Hdd, running mint mate 19.3.
Peter Andrijeczko Apple products have planned obsolescence built in, hackintosh is an option but I found the experience unstable without a lot of tinkering, I think with Apple moving to arm the days of running Linux on Macs are coming to an end (not counting vm)
It's not my main machine (I run arco on a desktop), but my old MacBook 3,1 (2007 white policarbonate core2duo 2GB ram!!) is in my parents house with a 20$ ssd and manjaro xfce running fine for them 😆😁 and that's what I use if I go there and it just flies.
If I take some friend's almost 10 years newer laptop with Windows 10 (that used to run win7 kind of okey, but is no longer oficially supported so they had to change) it takes forever to boot and by the time they open Microsoft Word I'm already on my vim blasting latex with live preview on mupdf 😂😂.
Damn apple and microsoft... buy buy buy new things gotta' consooooome
If you miss the Mac OS X user interface then I can recommend you the Deepin desktop environment.
@@ablearcher2753 Hell, I do prefer the top bar and dock instead of a bottom bar / task bar, but I do that in Gnome and KDE too. I know some themes on both move the minimize / maximize / etc buttons onto the left side and color code them like macOS does too.
To pile onto your suggestion though, I'd just suggest elementary OS / the (I think it's called pantheon?) desktop environment, as it's literally a macOS clone.
the arco linux team should very much put some effort in redesigning their website. every time I happen to go there I get massive headaches
True, I went there a few days ago and had no idea I was even in the right website for quite a few minutes, and then couldn't find a home page saying what arco linux's proposal of value actually was
Agreed
@@erefront Same, like, what exactly is Arco's mission? Is it just Arch with a GUI installer, or is there anything more to it (I still don't know). In any case, the installer itself is a sufficient selling point.
There damn website is built using wordpress and divi theme. idk how they did so bad on it lol that is very frustrating.
Exactly! It seems more like an Erik video repository than having easily accessible written information. Who wants to have to watch a video instead of reading a well written installation paper?
The main purpose of Arco Linux is that it is a learning distro for Arch. Nonetheless I use Arco Linux D for my main production machine. Eric Dubois produces tons of videos about arch. When you see many of these videos you really learn a lot and you get a huge amount of information for solving many problems in arch.
Artix has to put in a non-trivial amount of work to remove systemd, and provide 3 init systems.
ArcoLinux: a great version if you want to learn more than Arch (thank you Erik Dubois)!
Why?
@@muhammadmannapov Why what? Please explain.
Why do you learn more than arch if you use arco
@@muhammadmannapov I mentioned Erik Dubois (ua-cam.com/users/ErikDuboisfeatured) because he has created informative linux articles numbering in the thousands. He is a great teacher if you are interested in Arch but you will learn about many desktop environments, how to create your own iso, how to use the Calamares Installer with Arch, etc. Take a look at the website (www.arcolinux.info/).
Endeavor os is a great arch distro because it is close to vanilla arch and comes with many desktop environments and a window manager which are xfce, mate, lxqt, i3-wm, cinnamon, plasma, gnome budgie and deepin. Since it is close to Arch it does not come with much bloat. I will agree that arcolinux comes with a lot of DE and WM. Manjaro also comes with good selection of DE and WM. Manjaro WM selection is limited however. My issue with arcolinux is getting nvidia card to work with it for proprietary vulkan drivers. I had no issues with properly installing nvidia drivers in Arch, Manjaro and Endeavor OS. I hope arcolinux fixed that issue.
Arco is a really good distro.
So is Endeavour.
Artix by default uses Gentoo’s OpenRC init system over SystemD, as SystemD has far too much built in (see Clear Linux for 100 things you didn’t know SystemD could do).
Artix is designed to be a base distro like Arch itself. It also is built weekly, so yes it is active.
Note that I’m a Gentoo user, so it’s not my main distro.
Is it an article?
It is a linux distro which uses features of SystemD, many of which were known to nobody before then.
I don’t think so, but LiLo (or ELiLo) and SysLinux should work.
Everybody with twitter report the fake account, maybe they will take it down.
@dsfadsfgafgf probably deliberate typo
@dsfadsfgafgf given that dt uses windowmanagers (wm) all the time i really thought that was deliberate. lol
I do totally agree on ArcoLinux. I have just replaced it with the now unfortunately discontinued ArchDeepin (which is based on ArchBang) and went on to try ArcoLinux B Deepin. This thing is just a beauty.
Sure, some people call this a beginners distro but I beg to differ. The beauty about Arch and Linux in general is that a good distro gives you freedom of choice. If you are a noob you can feel at home and if you are some super hacker you can feel at home either way.
Now whilst I am perfectly capable to install a Linux system the CLI way only, I don't see why I should as my needs are not that special that I would have to go through all this procedure. Whilst - and I am not trying to make Arch look bad in any way here by saying this - Gentoo for example at least gives me the advantage to compile stuff from scratch, using my custom CFlags and so on - well I even fixed this one with a rather simple bash script.
So ArcoLinux is saving me tons of time while giving me the same if not even better experience and I can still do everything I want like I would be able to on any other Arch System thanks to being fully compatible.
Now with Artix I beg to differ as for the compatibility part. Mostly you are right but because it is a non-systemd distro forget about things like getting the eg. AMD Ryzen optimized kernel from the AUR, they just won't work and the ones that are available to you are rather outdated and kind of defy the whole purpose of running such a bleeding edge distro like Arch. Now I don't hate systemd but I would in principle prefer something like OpenRC when it comes to boot times and some other things. However, compatibility is key and wins so Artix is out as far as I am concerned and to be fair it doesn't seem to be anyway as greatly maintained as ArcoLinux is.
So to make a long story short, why would I want to invest a whole afternoon or so into a simple Linux installation when I can do the same with ArcoLinux in about 10-15 minutes?
Hey DT, I fully agree with you about Arco completely. Me only having one physical machine for playing with Linux means, I run mainline Arch (i3) as the main desktop but dual booting with ArcoLinuxB Xtended because of that glut of tiling wm managers. By the way you are the one who have inspired to look deeper into more tiling window managers like Xmonad and Qtile.
Yo DT, would you consider trying to grow a handlebar mustache?
Don't be jalouse, you will have one later....
Post that on his Reddit!
Hey DT, been watching your videos for a while now. I really appreciate what you do. I love GNU/Linux, but I do use Windows heavily. I manage and maintain several hundred computers, websites, servers, switches, routers, etc. I've tried to use Linux where I can (mostly with websites), but one thing I've always wanted the Linux community to do is not reject Windows so severely. I get the whole proprietary software argument, but I wish the Linux community had more experience with Windows for the specific reason of improving GNU/Linux. The tools that Microsoft has developed (or acquired) are so far above the tools I've encountered in the Linux realm. I would love to be able to setup a file server for my clients running Linux, but geez, the headache involved in doing so pales in comparison to a Windows Server license.
Am I crazy for thinking that one day Linux will be on par with Windows server as a viable alternative? I would love to be able to install a vanilla distro and get things like joining a Microsoft Active Directory, or being able to configure the things found in File Server Resource Manager, like storage reports, storage quotas, usage authorization, access control, etc. I feel like with Linux all I do is hit brick walls. Not trying to slam the Linux community at all but man I wish similar tools existed in the Linux realm that were easy to configure, easy to install/use, and easy to maintain.
I've been using Arco the last year and it's pretty good. I decided to try it when I saw you were using it. Thax a lot
Great to hear!
Hey DT, I love all your content, even the stuff that is well over my head has taught me things. Your channel and vids are things I am constantly coming back to!
I've been running Arco for a year.. I hopped through a ton of distros before finding Erik's i3 Mint installation script, and it was a gimme to switch to Arco since I really can't stand Ubuntu-based. It puts most other distros to shame. It's that simple, but there's no accounting for taste.
Hey DT, can you make some more videos about the ergodox and how you've configured it? I know you tend to stick to more "vanilla" configurations in general but it would be cool for you to talk about some keybindings you have, how it helps you with your tiling wm workflow, etc...! Btw, thanks for introducing me to the ergodox, I'm going to build my own :)
Hey dt, do you have to use java script or even proprietary java script to host videos online? Because basically all the UA-cam alternatives I see: PeerTube, LBRY, and how you host videos on your website, all include not only java script but also non-free java script (detected by GNU LibreJS addon that I use on IceCat). I remember that I watched some video of Richard Stallman on the FSF website and that definitely didn't require non-free java script and I think it actually didn't require java script at all, so it seems to me that it should be possible to host videos without java script or at least without proprietary java script. Btw, why do you have so much non-free java script in your website? Is that only because of the videos or also other parts of the website?
I come here to hear my day-to-day dosis of "proprietary garbage". You never disappoint 🤣🤣
I really like your ask DT videos. Your videos help get me re-interested in linux after 15 or so years away.
i've installed arco with twice with the advanced search. i'm curious to know what environment or wm it gives you after the simple install. does anyone know?
IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A KEYBOARD JUST LIKE THIS ONE THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I switched to Linux because of frustration with Windows, but when I switch I needed to learn more about Linux. That is why I follow this channel and other similar channels to learn some new tricks to use on my Linux computer. And going back to Windows is not option... Like the channel, because of its nice quality content. 👍🏻
To learn about Linux you also have to learn about systemd which is a lot.
@Peter Andrijeczko You can do that now. But the pace systemd is expanding the protest distros will be too much to maintain. And compiling every program is not ideal for everyone. Then you realize that it's not Linux that you love its the UNIX philosophy and freedom you get. How many users do you think know about the kernel(which is called Linux, the rest is just coreutils and moslty systemd nowdays)? Even gentoo users mostly know about the parameters that kernel takes thats it. When systemd handles everything I will move to another OS like BSD.
LOL literally my question watching yesterday's video.
Same, I went researching yesterday to why he would do that. I figured maybe that's why, but nice to get a confirmation to why he chooses that.
I think the Fedora Everything installer has an option to install Xmonad. Or it could be bspwm
Thanks for the hard work you do. I allways try to learn from the videos you make.
Arco is an excellent distribution, and I think you are spot on when you say it fills a specific purpose. A quick easy install of Arch, with a TWM and customised exactly how one wants, plus regular updates and improvements is hard to beat :-) Great support community as well. Thanks for all your work on one of the best linux channels.
Your channel is big on LBRY and your syncing is much faster just because of that, mine took 2 weeks to have one of my videos there.
hey dt, i've recently been trying out your polybar configs, but I may ask: what fonts are needed? i installed font awesome 5 and nerd-fonts-noto-sans-mono nerd-fonts-noto-sans-regular-complete and nerd-fonts-ubuntu-mono, but it still drops umatching charters. i'm on arch too (actually artix). what font am I missing? thank you very much!
Depends on what window manager module you are using in my config. Look in that module and you should see the fonts I use with that window manager.
Also, depending on how you installed those fonts, you may need to run fc-cache. ( sudo fc-cache -f -v )
@@DistroTube I'm using main-xmonad-extra, and I installed those fonts via the AUR mostly (iirc FA is is the repos). Do I need to install them manually? Maybe the AUR installed them with a different name, and that's why it drops charters?
I made a repository that was meant to serve the dotfile sharing purpose. I guess early bird gets the worm! But I will definitely support this guy or gal!
Hey DT, Could you please do a full Arco Linux installation video? And not on virtual machine, preferably a dual partition install with Windows or Mac or another Ubuntu based distro. Right now, I am not having an ethernet cable. So is it possible to setup wifi connection first (you can download the wifi driver using Android tethering) and then start installing. I understand it would take time, but again, you can do it in 2-3 parts.
I love my Ergodox-EZ! I got mine right around the time you got yours. My boss and team lead both had their own, and I had to try it. When I switched I also switched to the Colemak layout. I'm not sure that I would recommend the latter, as I actually type slower, but it is more comfortable for sure.
After the switch to Colemak I'm consistently baffled by the qwerty positions when I have to use it. Looking at the home row like "Can I buy a vowel?"
@@RosalioRedPanda No vowels for you, but here's a semicolon!
I love Linux and love watching content on UA-cam, really want to try a window manager but not really ready to make the switch just yet but on my main P.c I've tried to make it behave like a window manager by putting things like rofi on it and removing the menu button. Got the idea from a video you did but can't find that video anymore for some reason
Hey DT, you're the reason I switched to wm after being a long time Ubuntu user! Qtile rocks! You rock!
Hey DT! Thanks for fulfilling two big archetypes. You're the Bob Ross of Linux UA-camrs in my eyes, and you're one of the primary influencers in the decision, back in 2018, to switch over to Linux. Thank you so much for the Command Line Shenanigans video, while fun, is relaxing enough to pass out to at the end of the night.
Thank you for looking at us.
Artix doesn’t see releases because it’s a rolling release distro like Arch. Arch doesn’t see releases either. The beauty of Artix is that you can choose your init system. An Artix system running the Runit init system for example uses about 100mb less after boot than Arch with systemd. It’s also a great distro for those of us who care about choice and adhering to the original UNIX philosophy in the Linux community. Artix has much more to offer in terms of uniqueness than most distros.
Thank you I was wondering that too but was too shy to ask
Could a decentralized and distributed social media platform work? You host your own videos *but* it's more like torrents where you can download a piece from *each* person who has it; what do you think?
I still have a couple of LAS challenge coins and a thick LAS hoodie. Remember that LAS interview with RMS? Good times!
I remember that epic RMS interview. "It's negative in the freedom dimension." lol
with arco linux currently on my main laptop, I wouldn't recommend it as an introduction to an arch like enviroment. I would recommend a manual arch install, mainly for the ability to learn about your system as you set it up
Thank you, Derek.
that haircut of yours changed my life 😂 so much so, I am also sporting the COVID19 cut too brrrrroooooo
hey,DT, thanks for such geat video you made. i have my Arch linux installed as my production OS. i also have i3,bspwm,awesome,xmonad installed as my wm. but i have a problem here,I can enter in these wm. exept xmonad, everytime i try to login xmonad. just wait a few seconds, it will fallback to lightdm login screen. how can i fix it? thanks DT
If you can't login then either (a) your xmonad config is broken, or (b) there was an update to xmonad and/or haskell libraries--this requires you to recompile xmonad. Just open a terminal or enter a tty and run: xmonad --recompile
Biggest thing impress me with Arco are all those scripts they have. Very easy to edit the scripts, to make it do what you want it to do. The best scripts written I think.
This is true, never heard of qtile until I saw your videos. Now some my machines use qtile. Thank you!
What a perfect video. TY for introducing my favourite Linux Distro
You could probably make an application, that you fill out the information, and it posts it to both YT and LBRY, not sure how you would do it, but it could possibly fix the issue with lbry taking a couple days to upload the video, and you would only have to fill it out once.
Great show today DT. Thanks!
Thanks, Kevin.
The Jupiter Broadcasting crew was the default Linux hotness for years
I post to LBRY a week before I do on UA-cam so there's an incentive to use LBRY.
I tried Artix a couple times lately. Both times the live install froze after a couple of hours. (And I was running different programs.) Because it's all in memory, there's no way to track what went wrong. I'm trying Arco now and I may replace my MX Linux with it. (My longtime distro is Linux Mint because it just works.)
what do people do in terms of retaining privacy and their isp selling their info
Hey DT, do you think SystemD is that bad to use? Do you think other init systems suchs as Runit or OpenRC are better than SystemD?
Have you used freedombox ?
Can you do a recap of the Tom from OSGUI vs Jordan from This Week is Linux?
Hey DT, have you ever tried GoboLinux, it uses the Awesome WM as their default.
I was distro hopping a lot but stopped at MX linux it's fast, clean and stable.
Yeah, me too. Great tools too. I love all the things they give you.
Great to see fans of MX, I love it too, most of the time in fluxbox on MX.
There are two great Linux channels Luke Smith and EF Tech made simple.
not as fast as other distros
@DT syncing from Lbry to YT is what Gardner does, as far as I recall, but manual uploads are always the old reliable way
You just sold me Arco, I'm trying it in a VM right now. Might be life changer as well, never used Arch (tho I used manjaro) and a Tiling WM before
The devs are mostly on holiday for a bit, but there are always peeps on discord if you have questions. We love problem solving.
@@thenextpoetician6328 thanks!
@@ulqi You're welcome. PeterD's hybrid is gorgeous, btw. I run it in VB. Might be worth a look even if just for kicks, same as the Hefftor Editions.
read the wiki and install pure arch. you can do that in half an hour or less
Man, I completely agree about the the Twitter and Facebook privacy issues. All aside from the data mining and selling your info to anyone who wants it. These platforms are inherently like opening you up as a book in ways that are often not thought of. Take for instance, you might be applying for a job and are a front-runner for the position. It is not unheard of for an HR dept worker to ping you on FB or some of the others just to use the platform as an added character witness and they, for example, find pictures of you and other marijuana advocates smoking a joint or maybe find a quote that paints you in a less-than-favorable political light. They aren't supposed to discriminate in many ways however some do and your resume finds it's way toward the bottom of the deck. It's one example but why mess with these sites when they seldom do most people any good? I've never been on FB and no longer even open my Twitter acct. YT is pretty much it for me and I try to be neutral as I can be. Thanks for the topic!
Artix and Alpine Linux are the best, I did a benchmark and those are unbelievable
I had fun with Artix Linux, and they have an i3 default release in testing, so after I'm done testing Void Linux, I'll give that a go in a VM.
You totally forgot PCLinuxOS. It doesn't use systemd and you get to the end of installation easily.
i want to try arco but the game i mainly play (FFXIV) refuses to get installed.
You awesome distrotube. :).
I wonder why not a lot more distros have the option to choose software when installing. It's really awesome for quick customization.
Hey, DT, are xou a buddhist?
Writing that question down...
I’m sure DT isn’t submitting to such a mainstream religion such as Buddhism. I bet he’s a Zoroastrian. 😝
@@stephenjames5745 or maybe no religion? Im agnostic
> Answers Peertube question thousands of times
> Answers one more time
Ah yes that oughta cover it
DT, would you ever considered doing some KVM tutorials?
I need that too...
I know this is an old video but for anybody curios enough: LBRY is not youtube.
Now, that may seem obvious but this is why I mention it: if you edit video for youtube and upload that very same video to LBRY, you are making life harder for anybody who wants to watch your stuff in LBRY because the of how the video is encoded, so if you make a video with 8000 mbps over in LBRY it's going to be hell to stream it.
The few videos that I do have on LBRY were encoded for 2400 mbps and that's the only I managed for the videos to load fast enough for the end user, they videos do have some graphic glitches but...HEY!
man arco linux with qtile is PERFECT!!!!
Agreed
I will say it again Arcolinux ROCKS! ;P
I have been checking out Mabox lately. I really like it. Nice and fast, minimal.
Arco is Amazing! I'm 100% Arco I3 !! I'm started with Arco because you and you in my heart because this DT. Go ahead, you save life's!
Arco made Arch easier. Not like Manjaro, many application not working on Manjaro. But with Arco you could install almost anything. Thanks to Eric Dubois. But now I use Hefftor, I'm a DE user, because sometimes my wife or my daughter use my laptop. My favourite WM is IceWM and Openbox.
The Blue Screen of Death was my main Linux influencer but I must say my first love was windows95 it was fascinating. Yeah the ques that got me to this video was: Whats the difference between Arco Linux & Arch.
I really enjoy open source OS. I am new to Arch based linux I'm test driving Endeavour OS at the moment. I love Linix Mint and Ghost BSD along with Mac Ventura
Isn't UA-cam proprietary software?
fastest rapper alive? DT when reading Patreon support list.
i love the openbox edition.
I started with Arco Linux since yesterday and must admit installing Arch Linux went more smoothly if I did it again a few times, but with Arco Linux it goes even faster and during the installation you can already check the software and drivers to be installed in a check box!
your evangelism to linux work is appreciated father..
Hey DT, what GRUB theme do you use?
wait what you can theme grub? well ok that is so superfluos
I've considered something like Archlabs and Arcolinux to experiment with on a persistent usb or virtual machine, but I don't really see the point of jumping to a fork of Arch unless I have a specific reason. I'll just stick with vanilla Arch.
DT, I reckon it's Lunduke impersonating you on twitter in revenge for the 'cupcake' thing 😉
So he finally talked while looking at the camera, huh
I thought the same thing! Weird, didn't seem right did it? Lol
LLAP
Personally I had issues with my network connection and systemd present. Connections felt random, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. When trying Artix with OpenRC, it's just snappy and realiable. Once I set up my WiFi with wpa_supplicant, which is supported by OpenRC by default, it just automatically connects and works (just had to do few commands on freshly installed system and that's it). I remember in Arch I had problems with nordvpn in like forever, because all the extra shit systemd has interfered somehow. Now I just simply launch the thing, and it works.
Amen...
Hey DT, you could write a script to sync UA-cam and any other platform. I could take some coding time but in the end you could just run the python script and do it automated. That is doing it yourself, once and running a script after ebery upload to do it for you.
I think Luke Smith ran into this problem recently and found a way to host his PeerTube instance I think much more affordably. He might have some ideas? 🤷♀️
I use FDE's, and I like Wayland
Hey DT, why don't you just use anarchy installer. It installs mainline arch and you can select custom packages to install. You can even easily chroot into the installation once your done if you got something during install.
If you like the ergo dox so much... you might want to look into the keymouse alpha or keymouse track... if you can still find any lol. 3D printed tho so you might be able to get the plans from them to make your own if you want.
But peertube
Hey DT, have you ever used Slackware ? Are you ever going to make a video about it ? Seems like an untapped distro.
I use whatever O.S. will support my workflow. For home, linux works..for most of business, linux with open standards works better than MS, for years I stood by the motto "don't use 2 MS products together, they won't work well." Now I occasionally do high end video, 4k and even 8k video.Linux can't keep up with the 4k production, its buggy, what can be done in 30mins in MS takes hours in linux, and most times will NOT render correctly in linux. But then again, it's about using the right tool for the job, not about forcing a square peg in a round hole. 8k video standards were just agreed upon this year, in time linux will adapt..my workflow is now..i don't have the time to wait at work. I embrace open standards, but until that happens I will use the proprietary software that will work for my workflow.
What about Sway?