The ARCH LINUX Experience
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Exploring Arch Linux with KDE Plasma
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Just found out that holding shift while pressing the like button gives you a cool animation
_cries in mobile_
liar !!!!!!?!?!?!?!!?![pf[pqoefoiavbs]qwvinw]vinaevio"
you lied to us
@@gusta9754 correct
just found out there are 3 dots next to the comment and whne i click on them wHIle Holding "shift" it GIves you option to report this comment for misinformation
The next step is to include "i use arch btw" in every sentence you say and you've become a true arch user
:_skull:
💀
never doing that if i become a arch user
@@wrAth_bh I am a arch user and I never say that I am a arch user
@@Mimi-py8mfno u aint then
"Pixelated icon bounces on cursor"
I am sold
something-something they should switch to hyprcursor, because xcursos is just outdated.
Wayland Vector graphics Cursor subsystem already near finished and in testing, maybe even fully working, but now people need to start making cursors in vector drawing programs like the wicked cool Inkscape, and I'm sure many will be available in the near future.
You can do crap loads of stuff in and with Linux you would never even explore in Windows because it could cost you a small fortune, and you have full control over every aspect, so if a pixilated cursor is a deal breaker, then you don't deserve Linux anyhow!
@@Bob-of-Zoid The original comment was just appreciating the little detail of the bouncing application icon next to your cursor when you open an application (5:20). I don't think it was meant in a negative way.
Anyways, currently Windows uses raster cursors, and so does Linux for the most part (the difference is that we know of work being done on the Linux side, as you said). But in the end, cursors just need to work.
@@Krissssz I know, the last sentence was more of a pun. I mean 1, I can't see it as enough to go back to Windows🤮, nor 2 is it noticeable unless sized up quite a bit which is only on when you "shake" the cursor to see it better.
PIXELATED ICON BOUNCED ON MY CURSOR (GOT UGLY 🤯)
Correct title: The KDE experience
The KDE experience: Extreme bloat
@@markwilson3326tell me you use Arch without telling me you use Arch btw
@@markwilson3326 *The GNOME experience: Extreme bloat
@@markwilson3326 And even with all the "bloat" it still uses less RAM than GNOME.
kde seems really beautiful, im a beginner at linux so should i switch to KDE Plasma 3 arch?
I've never been so entertained from a simple distro review
its more of a kde review, he didnt tinker with arch almost at all
kinda misleading tbh
@@dxcvvxd🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
@@dxcvvxd tbh he doesn't know the difference, most people don't know the different. and tbh (2) most people don't care.
@@RazorMureithi i think people should care otherwise why would you use linux
you should at least have some general knowledge about what you're running
@@dxcvvxd it's endeavor OS it doesn't require tinkering
This was one of the most enjoyable Linux videos I have seen in a minute. It really brought me back to the good ol days when all of these were new things for me. I even learned some things! Kudos on your detailed explanation style while keeping it entertaining.
Cheers!
drag windows from... tit? ok
XD
All jokes aside, this is one of the most informative videos regarding kde plasma I've seen so far, normally people just do the basics without the exploration and it sucks ! Even though I've been using kde for almost a year now, I actually learned something that'll change the way I use my desktop. After I've seen this, I feel like I hate myself for not exploring what plasma have to offer. You've just earned another sub ! Hope many more people see this vid, no matter whether they are Linux beginners or more advanced users, there's always more to learn !
ngl, it's kinda cute to see the next generation find all the compositing effects like wobbly windows that have been a thing for as long as I can remember and at least as long as I've been using linux professionally(which is.. a long time.. It's like almost 2 decades and now I feel old)
I love Wobbly Windows. They're so silly and pointless but I can't help but love them
@@AstralPhnxThey aren’t pointless if they bring a smile to your face 😤😤🗣️🗣️ (I also love my wobbly windows)
Funnily enough, I had a practical use for Wobbly Windows back in the Compiz days: I set the system bell to wobble the focused window instead of beeping. (But I am biased, as someone who turns off all system sounds and prefers visual indicators.)
@@FydaTECH Nope, same here. I hate system sounds so much, same on my phone. The only notification sound there is when someone calls ;)
Truthbomb
I have an Arch/hyprland machine and a Fedora/KDE machine. I really got a kick out of watching you stumble around KDE and Arch at the same time. Not only was it fun to watch you discover things in more or less the same way I did, but I also learned a few things from your spastic speed run of KDE settings that I never even thought to look for. Your 'gas pedal to the floor' recording and editing mode is fantastic.
I like how you actually try to read and understand stuff and find out how to do things. Of course you counter some stumbling blocks but this was such a pleasant and humorous video :D
You can now officially say I use arch btw, but next is gentoo and LFS
oh god. please dont make him do this
Then LFS
(with a tiling WM, to step it up a notch)
after lfs he makes his own completely from scratch (kernel and all)
@@personi6241 a more gentle approach would be Void Linux with Tiling WM
The reason why you kept getting "MANUAL INTERVENTION REQUIRED" notification is most likely because you never did a system wide update. I assume the problem specifically would be solved by package database refreshing that would happen durring such an update.
In simple terms your PC had an old reference to the AUR databases, meaning outdated, meaning "yay" was very confused when trying to call out to the out of date AUR repositories.
The command for arch based distros is "sudo pacman -Syu".
-S flag stands for "sync", it is the flag that actually allows you to grab, download, a package from AUR or any other repository or source. Not to be confused with lowercase -s flag which stands for "search". It can be used or example in "sudo pacman -Ss " to search for a package that contains a specific term in, for exmple, it's description.
-y flag is the one that ensures that you're up to date with actual repositories you are trying to download a package from"
-u flag is simply a system-wide update of all pacakages installed through pacman
NOTE: The exact same syntax applies for "yay" but do also note that "pacman" and "yay" are different tools that need to be updated separtly.
i hate doing this so much, i wish distros were managed by not clinically insane people
The AUR and the official arch repos are different things... Also yay is just a wrapper for pacman with added functionality of being able to install AUR packages seamlessly.
yes!
And the "manual intervention required" stuff is probably due to uninstalled dependencies, which is the problem of the AUR package.
yay -Syu will update both pacman packages and also check for AUR updates. Effectively removing the need to interact with pacman most of the time.
Arch Linux with KDE Plasma is the ultimate Swiss army knife of computing! I have been using them exclusively on all of my computers for over a decade now, because so far just nothing compares or comes close.
You showed me nothing new, and yet I loved every minute of it! Your narration style, especilly your sense of humor and the sound effects are well woth watching. Oh, and you could have used EndeavourOS to install Arch with one of many desktops but via a great installer. It comes with a selection of basic apps, and once installed which is wicked quick, you have all of the harder work behind you the easy way.
One more thing: A lot of what you said was great about Linux is Plasma specific and in few if any other DE's, and why it's such a freaking great Desktop Environment.
The only thing Gnome is good for is kicking out of the flower bed, down the driveway, onto the street, and watching cars run it over!
Nice video again!
Notes and tips (I'll probably be less useful this time because I don't use KDE, display scaling, or play that game you do):
1. **KDE Settings:** KDE's settings does give you the options to configure lots of stuff, but it will only work on KDE apps (that integrate the libraries and stuff that link it in to the KDE settings and other KDE system features). This is why you cannot rebind Firefox keys in the KDE settings menu--it isn't developed by KDE (so it isn't built to integrate with it).
Ultimately it depends on the program you are using how or if you can bind the shortcuts. Programs that support/are made for Linux are generally better in this regard because the community tends to care more about it. In general programs (if they can be set) will be setup through a program and/or a config file that you can edit to make it work how you want.
2. Yeah the middle click thing is because there are multiple clipboard selections. The normal clipboard one you access with copy and paste and one called primary selection. It can be nice sometimes and some programs can use it to automatically do things when you select text instead of needing to copy and paste stuff. Pretty niche though so not many people actually know about/use it.
3. The weird purple line under the task bar is probably a compositing artifact. I don't use it so don't know what exactly you might try to fix it but you can probably search or report it as a bug and someone can probably help you.
4. Steam was not there in pacman because it is in a different repository that is disabled by default called multilib (it mentions this on the Arch wiki page you were on). Instructions for enabling it can also be found there.
As a side note the multlib repository is basically just for 32bit versions of software and some programs like Wine and Steam that have stuff requiring/running them. I think it is disabled by default because there might be 32 and 64 bit versions of some software so they want to make it harder to accidentally install the 32 bit version when you are on a 64 bit computer (just a guess).
5. **Uninstalling and how pacman works**
I generally use -Rs to uninstall stuff.
With VLC it was failing because VLC is used (is a dependency for) something else on the system. Fortunately for many users pacman will (unless you really force things) not run transactions (i.e. installs or uninstalls) that will leave something on your system broken because they are missing a (known) required dependency. ** In your case the message was saying it can't remove VLC because 'VLC' is listed as a required dependency of phonon-qt6-vlc (or something didn't read it lol). It won't remove VLC because phonon-qt6-vlc is still installed and needs VLC to work.
To get VLC to uninstall, you should generally just list both the thing you are trying to uninstall and any of the things that it is saying it will break (the things that depend on it).** E.g. if you are trying to uninstall package a and it says you can't because a is a required dependency of package b, then just do `pacman -Rs a b` so they are removed in the same transaction. If you really know what you are doing there are ways to make it cascade uninstall all the things that depend on anything you tell it to uninstall, but this could easily mess things up badly if you try it on the wrong thing so it is generally safer to avoid it.
6. **Calculator not showing up--pacman continued**: the display name of a program--especially the generic one like Calculator, Web Browser, or File Manager (and sometimes even the name of an executable)--is not necessarily the same as the package name.
In your case I think it is likely kcalc or kalc (remember that there are lots of calculators in the repository and they all need to have unique names so they can't all be 'calculator').
**How to figure out a package name using pacman** You could figure it out in lots of ways and some times it may be hard especially with really big wierd pacakages, but most of the time you can figure it out by searching the installed applications. Just use `pacman -Qs ` or in your specific case `pacman -Qs calc` or something and it searches for programs with calc (case insensitive) in both the name or description and you would be able to see what the name of the calculator you have installed is.
Btw the mnemonic for that command is Q[uery installed packages)] s[earch]. While we are here -Qi (info) is another useful one that gives the detials of a specific package instead of searching. The i and s options work on the -S version too just searching in all the apps in the repositories instead of just the ones on your computer. You can always look up more options and stuff in the man page or on the Wiki.
7. **Making your life in the shell easy by using fish as your shell** the command line might be hard to learn and remember as you are getting started. I suggest you try installing fish and setting it as the shell run in your terminal (should be in the settings for the default one or can be set in a config file for alacritty.
For basic stuff it is really great because you get nice tab completions by default for most common programs that normally come with little descriptions of what they mean/do. So you can for instance type `pacman -` and then press tab and it will show you all the options (both the long and short versions) and what they do.
See their website (fishshell.com) for more info and a very good manual (which can also be accessed in the browser directly from the shell when you use the `help` command.
Also, I bet you would like the fish_config command which opens a special (locally hosted don't worry lol) web interface that lets you customize the prompt and other stuff very easily with a GUI.
It is really very nice and I highly recommend it. Most of the stuff that works in bash or zsh works in fish, but some things that have kinda odd syntax in those (because of compatibility). It is really just better in most ways for interactive use and scripts that you don't need to be able to run on any random computer.
8. tessdata is a thing for tesseract which is an OCR (optical character recognition) thing. Choosing a provider on that thing was just selecting what languages you want the OCR for. It is used by mupdf (and other things) to let you copy text from PDF's when they are just images (without the text data embedded as well).
9. When you look for applications to do basic tasks a nice source is the Arch Wiki (yes of course it is lol). wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications In your case with an image viewer, you would go to the multimedia category and into Image viewers, in the category of graphical ones (as opposed to terminal or frame buffer ones) and you would have a whole list of them with the package name, a short description, and links to the website if you wanna see what it looks like before installing it.
**I would generally recommend only using the AUR when you don't have any good options in the normal repos** because it is more of a hassle and as you saw can have mixed results if you are just trying all sorts of random stuff. Use it when you already know you want a specific package and it is not available in other ways.
Also you can use `-Ss` (in pacman or yay) to search for things like image viewers directly.
10. Btw you are missing many default KDE apps. A lot more things would have been possible out of the box if you installed the kde-applications group (pacman -S kde-applications). Note there are tons of apps for all sorts of stuff in here so if you don't want everything, you can just install specific ones or sub-groups like kde-utilities or kde-graphics.
11. Quick AUR tips: the -git versions are generally compiled on your machine directly from the current version on the repo. The bin ones are precompiled versions (normally what I would try first unless I have a reason to compile it) if it doesn't have -git or -bin it can be either.
The diff option shows changes between the current version you have installed and the version you are installing.
Again try the normal repos first.
12. AUR manual intervention: I don't have much time and can't really read the logs so I can't say super confidently, but the divinci resolve one has an error with the mv command not being able to access a file in the .cache dir maybe a permission problem or something. Also it could just be a broken package so you would definitely need to trouble shoot a bit to figure out what is going on. I don't think I have ever had that problem lol.
13. Also just preemptive tip, remember to update (pacman -Syu) often it will prevent lots of problems. (Note that AUR stuff needs to be updated seperately). I can't go into all the stuff about the AUR now but really try to only use it when necessary (at least until you are a bit more experienced) because it can make things more complicated easily.
Hope these are helpful.
Uuu nice, thanks for all the tips!
@@bogxd you can also see the dependency tree using the pactree command found in the pacman-contrib package like this:
pactree -r vlc
vlc
└─phonon-qt6-vlc
└─phonon-qt6
├─dolphin
│ └─dolphin-plugins
├─dragon
...
For vlc in particular you will see that it's a dependency for plasma-workspace, the kde shell, so you can't remove it at all while using kde.
This is an exceptionally useful comment, thanks for leaving it!
You are amazing.
Arch? The final boss?
Gentoo wants to throw hands and LFS is staring menacingly from the distance
Gentoo is easier to be fair
It is like a JRPG, you THINK Arch is the final boss, but it has three more forms.
Nix, Gentoo and LFS lmao
@@uis246i think gentoo is harder since it requires compiling and using things like useflags and knowing some info for the compiler but i am also a arch user for like 3 years thats only tried gentoo twice. So idk
@@linuxramblingproductions8554 I am a gentoo user and think arch users are crazy masochists
@@twenty-fifth420NixOS is a distro that forces you to keep on learning. you cannot master it. nixpkgs is a labyrinth of spaghetti code.
btw, if you freshly install any linux, it's best practice to update it (same as on windows). on arch, this is
sudo pacman -Syu
while on mint it's
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
this is probably why you didn't "find the packages", because the information that these packages exist needs to be downloaded with that command
He probably didn't have multilib enabled
@@seezon6962Yeah, that's why he couldn't install steam in the first place
Getting used to do a quick read of the relevant arch wiki page is very helpful
@@seezon6962 It was literally written on that wiki page he had open. Arch requires reading - otherwise you'll break it very easily.
For me it's
sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm ; flatpak update -y
Arch Experience ❌
KDE Experience ✅
its mostly both
KDE is WORSE ....I kind of understand using arch, BUT kde .............who on earth wants that bloated rubbish?
@@jimw7916 bruh?
kde is the best Desktop envirnoment
its also got the best software suite
you wouldnt call it bloated unless you daily drive a twm
@@jimw7916 shut up kde is great i use it
@@jimw7916 me, i want that bloated rubbish, leave my wobbly windows and sparkly cursor alone :c
Steam now has built in game recording as of today with the latest client beta. And it works beautifully on Linux, even Steam Deck.
He changed it to the thumbnail he made in affinity lmao
keep it up with the linux content, we truly love it. maybe you will build gentoo next.
LFS or he's just a script kiddie!
have some mercy
@@Kevin-jb2pvLuckily he isnt
You unironically did a better job at making Linux seem aproachable than every single Linux content creator i have ever watched (and i've seen them all, even the ones that are super friendly and patient...sadly they don't realize how much they know and how far above the casual noob it is).
Can't wait for the Gentoo video
Gnome video*
@@bsfgpmedia No I think they mean Gentoo lol
The reason your sensitivity changes based on the resolution you set is because mouse sensitivity is measured in dots per inch (I call it pixels per inch) so if you are at 800 dpi every inch you move your mouse your mouse cursor will move 800 pixels. That means if you have a lower resolution, the cursor will move a larger percentage of the screen if you move your mouse the same distance both times.
watching this video was the most fun i've had for months. thanks for taking us along on your linux journey. it only gets better.
I don't know English that well, but I understand you better than others.
And your emotions.
You're a top.
I suggest you to try the tile window managers, more precisely hyprland. ))))
"Amazed at how many things you can customize in linux"
True but also you chose the correct DE
In my opinion Gnome is better, but I definitely see why KDE rocks. I love KDE myself too but just prefer a priced Gnome for daily work! I love KDE's customizability but I feel Gnome is neater, more uniform, just as easilbly be customized. and easier to write GUIs for. I am open to anything the awesome folks developing KDE have to offer.
@@abinaash8453 I guess you could argue one is better than the other depending on the person/type of use? But an overall KDE is better imo. A lot of customization or no customization, both are usable. No custom, looks just like windows (kinda). Custom looks however you want it to look (kinda).
Gnome does not have bars for certain programs, and has theming and stuff not baked in (as far as I know or my understanding, mind you). Amongst other things. The workflow for me is not good and it's confusing for some reason.
But like I said, different strokes for different folks. (In my OC i was just messing)
@@abinaash8453 Gnome apps have way too much padding and wastes a lot of screen space for no reason.
@@LautaroQ2812 Gnome has extensions which allow you to customize your desktop. It does not have as much as kde, but it still has customization. There are extensions that allow you to install themes
@@abinaash8453 i didn't like Ubuntu with GNOME. Now i am on Mint with XFCE
The changing cursor was probably due to a (bug) when opening GTK apps inside KDE Plasma.
Calculator and Flameshot are both GTK apps, IIRC
For the best experience, you'll want to use apps from the same UI toolkit, i.e. QT apps when using KDE and GTK apps while on gnome (and derivative desktop environments)
This feels more like the KDE experience than the Arch experience x)
But it's always very nice to see some feedback and experience from someone trying it for the first time!
Might want to make a note or something that this is about the experience of _using_ the OS and rather than that of Installing it. I was completely convinced this was a reupload for view harvesting at first, especially given both videos have the same length and very similar intros.
I am sure that 99% of this video's viewers are Linux users
sudo touch grass
Make that 98%!
I’m just a Windows user who watches Linux videos for fun (and maybe will switch in the future)
I don’t care to switch that much it’d just be impractical for me but these videos are somewhat fun to watch
that's the point no?
Basically KDE review, not Arch.
it smells the same to the windows users that ... interact mostly through a gui in the first place.
@@D3nchanter That's not the point I'm making though. It's entirely different if he ran KDE on something other than Arch.
I really enjoy your OS review content and have become addicted to it recently. trying to add the following techniques: 1. File transfer from PC to hard disk, hard disk to PC, and PC to mobile, 2. OS boot speed improvement, and 3. OS disk occupied space. Thank you!
I think your KDE Plasma installation is incomplete. But for a new user, you're doing really good (and good mistakes :D) and your videos and humor are great.
KDE Plasma default screenshot utility : spectacle
KDE Plasma default PDF viewer : okular
KDE Plasma default image viewer : Gwenview
Personal opinion : avoid AUR when you can, use it only if required.
For Gaming you have something like CachyOS which is an Archlinux easier to install and gaming oriented.
(I don't game on Linux, I'm a console gamer)
I agree with your AUR opinion but I would also say check out flathub before AUR, if the package isn't on flathub then check AUR
spectacle is crap people usually replace it with flameshot
@@alvin9124 it has become pretty nice lately. I recently changed back from flameshot
@@alvin9124 Ahah no, they dont.
@@alvin9124 spectacle is a perfect screenshot tool
flameshot is only for the rare situations where you need annotations
Bog is my favourite time of the day.
Bog is like desktop KDE environment. 🤿💡🍺🍺⏱🤿🏛
Bog is not love linux arch💀💀🏨🔨🏨🔨🔨🔨.
Bog is love KDE environment desktop ☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️☑️
I agree
We need the HYPRLAND experience next
Ooh yes, that is much more fun than installing Gentoo or LFS
the one with the nazi dev?
@@tauon_ Yea no fuck these hyprland losers
yes yes yes!! like this so he can see!
this is a great tiling window manager, bog
This is the best video about linux on youtube. Welcome to the club!
I use KDE on a daily basis for months now and there is so much practical things that I just discovered in this video 😂
lowkey wanna give linux a try after those three videos, congrats sir
also, this vid got posted as i was watching the other two lol
Just don't touch buggy kde, for your own sake. Try pure gnome or something. Fedora have everything backed as it should be, for example.
You should! Probably not something like arch, as it can be a little unstable at times if you don't know what you are doing.
I recommend mint, but view a lot of the comments from the mint video for mistakes and solutions to those mistakes.
You can look up guides online but make sure you know what you are pasting in does. I used to do it to look up package names, since they are sometimes confusing.
From the day you start, I'd recommend looking up some NixOS guides (even if you dont end up using the system, you can use it in a virtual machine for a while, just like how Bog did for arch), since for me, that seems like the best thing. If something breaks, you can easily roll back. Everything is just a single config file, so you can move it between systems. You can choose between stable and unstable/fast packages. (like mint, slower but more stable, for nix this is 6 months, for mint i think it's every major release, or like arch, fast but more buggy sometimes.)
don't listen to this guy you can experiment and remember there are plenty of options
Don't listen to delancre, KDE is nice, just choose the X11 session, it's more stable
KDE is great and should probably be your first choice if you're coming from windows
Love your vids, laughed so much. These are best system reviews videos you can find. Subbed and liked!
This video right here
You may not be a Linux Guy
But you perfectly captured _why I adore Linux_
There's just so many moving parts. It's like I turned my _entire computer_ into Lego.
Ha! Install Gentoo!
found oglo in a random comment section
@@abdullahbinnur5592 Yep, you found me! XD
Is gentoo actually harder? I thought the only real difference was that emerge compiles (which isn’t even 100% true anymore lol) gentoo is stupid. Try LFS
@@BenjaminWheeler0510 Okay, first off, Gentoo is not stupid. I use Gentoo because it is way more stable, and has USE flags. Second, no... LFS is literally just copying and pasting the creator's hard work and calling it your own. (The creator himself said that.)
@@oglothenerd ok nerd
This was hands down the best AD for KDE and Arch
This is why I love KDE. I know people love Gnome and/or want something more lightweight - but to me it's perfect despite not even using 5% of the customizability.
It is so fun to watch someone discover KDE. It's how I fell in love with linux myself
love it bro! thanks
5:12 - KWrite is, to my knowledge, basically the same as Kate, but slightly stripped down. This is a feature that's really helpful for programming (although I do not know a single person that actually uses any of KDE's apps for developing)
super useful tip that saves lots of time, if you do "sudo !!" it runs the last command entered as sudo
For anyone watching, and wanting a suggestions for a screenshot and image viewer (and light editor)
spectacle - screenshots. If default kde install the printscreen key will open this automatically once installed
gwenview- image viewer. Also does cropping, rotating.
I THINK those are the defaults on most distro KDE installs
Meta shift right blew my mind. As a multi monitor guy this is way faster then dragging across monitors.
A tip on installing packages from the AUR, scroll up a bit to check what the errors are.
Generally, AUR packages are built from source and you'll probably run into build errors, in this case it said something along the lines of not being able to move some libs, so it's likely you didn't have some of the right libraries installed and it wasn't listed as a dependency for some reason, or its wasn't located where the PKGBUILD though it was located.
That being said, AUR packages can really be a pain, since sometimes like the case of Davinci Resolve where they don't have an alternative binary install (those usually end with a "-bin" on the AUR), the packages are massive and take a lot of time to build, and will take forever as well for updates and also take up a lot of storage.
Especially on slower computers, sometimes updating AUR packages can take the whole night, and you'll probably spend a lot of time looking at build errors as well, which can be a pain to resolve if you aren't a programmer (I'm a programmer and they're still a massive pain).
Same, dude. Have Mint installed and strongly considering Arch.
Has this video been reposted?
no
The customization is amazing! I want to switch to Arch even that Win10 is still supported! I would love to see your video in your style with Pop_OS - you know what you want, what you need to tweak, and explore much more, like with Arch :)))
I really liked your narrative style, it's very cute and funny
Hey. Atleast he said "One of the hardest operating systems" and not "THE hardest operating systems".
the hardest actually usable and supported operating system
I love how this entire video is just KDE appreciation
If you open "Virtual Desktops" in Settings, you can define more Rows. Then the GRID actually shows as a Grid instead of a line.
The calculator had a different mouse cursor because it was a Gnome app not a KDE one... yeah the cross compatibility is dodgy at best. Likely you could not uninstall it because it is not actually named that, but instead "gnome-calculator".
The default kde screenshot app is "Spectacle" for screenshots. You can check settings for keyboard shortcuts for it.
The default kde image app is "Gwenview." Might simply not be mapped to anything, or not installed. Check out "Default Applications" or worse "File Associations". Allows cropping too. You may use GIMP too.
You can also mute your microphone with a keyboard shortcut. I used it everyday.
This video is a good metaphor for the Linux experience of everyone I know who has tried to use Linux: there's hours of fun to be had messing around with settings, but ultimately, nothing of substance actually gets done.
I love that you said g-nome and put up the meme because Fireship missed the opportunity on his 100+ linux tips video
The next thing you should talk about is bootcamp assistant, which is a program factory installed on intel based macs that creates a virtual disk to run windows 10 natively
I only have limited experience with Linux and PlasmaKDE, and as much of a headache Linux is sometimes, it's also suuuuper mind blowing what can be done with it. It was really fun to explore all the settings and seeing what each one would do.
KDE's image viewer in Gwenview. To create screenshots you can press the print key. Check if you have the KDE screenshot program spectacle installed.
As a linux veteran watching this video didn't make me cringe its so funny. Absolute meme material, especially the editing.
the steam input message from earlier was the cause of wierd input in cs. That is because you installed the flatpak version. I have no idea why yay did not work for you. This video was great, you really went through the whole grafical interface and you wasn't afraid to touch the terminal
- Scaling works way better because unlike Linux Mint you're likely in Wayland this time - unlike what Linux Mint uses, scaling is basically a standard thing now in Wayland-using environments.
- You're *2 releases late* to trying 'Oxygen Light' - it was called Air, and was yeeted in KDE Plasma 6.0 (honestly though, Air was mid).
*- Manual intervention is required*
You have to enable the multilib repo before installing steam from it! It's written right before the steam word on the arch wiki you opened!
I never had this much joy from using Linux for 5 years 😂. Just watching this is enjoyable
most complete kde review I have seen. I am going to try KDE today.
1) The reason why you couldn't find Steam was because you needed to enable multilib in /etc/pacman.d as stated in the wiki page that you were on. I don't know why Multilib is not on by default but it's definitely a pitfall you have to look out for on Arch.
2) The reason why your mouse cursor changes on some apps is because GTK apps (used by GNOME) and QT apps (used by KDE/Plasma) have different theming styles in Plasma. You can customize this in settings
3) GIMP would be a useful app for your cropping concerns.
A friend of mine gave me a usb in highschool with the arch base kernal. It was so tough, but very worth it
Protect this man at all costs, he is our sacred missionary. He guides the lost Souls of Windows and macOS users towards the one true operating system, Arch Linux.
of course it makes sense for the sensitivity to change when you change your resolution. You're making the image smaller, therefore there's less space for the mouse to move resulting a higher sensitivity.
Vim even having a dedicated icon in the GUI is like mocking the user xD
12:15 "im spending way to long in these settings" ..... wellcome to KDE & KWin we hope you enjoy your stay it's good to have you with us even if it's just for the day.
okay i didn't know it's this entertaining watching a newbie try different linux distros
Love your review still looking for more distros. I love your mint and arch linux 😅
As a future scientist I can confirm that your research method is the best one that I have seen in my life. XD
Is "Haiku" what I hear int the last second of the video?
0:43 "so i conducted a scientific analysis on all desktop environments i know" *proceeds to get a random number generator website*
Hey I was a Arch user who really knows everything to make things right for my Pentium Desktop PC!
0:23 the hardest BTW, nah hello from Gentoo and LFS is waving hi!
There's something special about seeing someone explore the endless possibilities with KDE Plasma, even when bugs occur here and there 😄
The cursor changing while with in specific program windows is possibly because they are containerized such as a Snap or Flatpak. I'm not aware of with Snap but with Flatpak programs you can have them use your system cursor as well as theming.
arch is the type of final boss that has a second phase after his death (gentoo) and then you can fight an optional boss thats even harder than the endboss (Linux from Scratch)
CS2 nerd here. on linux your mouse will not function properly in fullscreen if you aren't at your native resolution. it will work in windowed full screen most often however.
to get better performance disable player outlines in the settings as it was poorly implemented and takes more frames than it's worth. you do not need to process the vulcan shaders for most games on steam that is just a fall back option if a game need that support. hope this helps
Hey BOG, the issue that you have with the color distortion in the panel is because you are using the scale system at 150%, if you reduce it to 100% the distortion will disappear, change it to 100% it will go off under display manager.
Here some medals to the designers and developers maintaining that monster of settings, use cases, thousands of customization combinations 🏅🏅🏅🏅
From the amount of time he spent on tweaking those settings in KDE. I have a feeling that he will love configuring his own kernel with Gentoo...
Used arch for a little less than a year, hated it, but it really helped me learn how to debug and search things efficiently
This kde ux is mind blowing, it just make me to forget the list until this 19:43
Mouse cursor changes because that app uses GTK which is gnomes toolkit to make apps. So its using adwaita theme for cursor when using a gtk flatpak app.
You can customize anything, except the apply button, there's no setting to turn that off and makes changes effective immediately.
I love that you spelled shortcuts as shortucts in both the mint video and here.
Already excited for gentoo series
16 minutes in and it already feels so much like windows, I might even want to switch if it keeps up being this promising
Arch being final boss? I think you forgetting about Gentoo :p Arch is actually sweet spot between easy and hard distros, thats why it is popular
at 20:10, you can't install steam because you don't have the multilib repository enabled. It's disabled by default. Found this out when installing Nvidia drivers, since you have to enable the multilib repo in order to grab them.
The Kde spectacle app is perfect for taking screenshots and editing stuff (that's built-in)
for screenshots and image viewers you had Gwenview and Spectacle preinstalled with KDE
Exactly my ADHD-Brain, when I first started to use Linux. I love being able to relive that by observing your brain getting excited on every little thing.
by the way, hyprland is absolutely exquisite. if you're gonna get tiling. i wanna see the entire process of you figuring out how to set it up and configure it. it's amazing though. the reason steam didn't wanna install was cause it was locked behind a repository. on the wiki it said that it's in the mulitilib repository. however that one isn't turned on by default. to turn it on you go into the configuration file for pacman and remove the # from the multilib repository to enable it.