Switching to Arch Linux | Part 4 – Finale | 10 Day Challenge

35 thoughts on “Switching to Arch Linux | Part 4 – Finale | 10 Day Challenge”

1. Could you make a tutorial showing us how to switch between different kernels in the case we have a crash?

2. Day 1 : 🤬😠😠
   Day 10 : ☺️🥰

3. mx linux

4. Arch installation is like a journey.

5. Personally, I prefer Manjaro KDE. I'm sure Arch is great as well, but I want stuff tested a bit more before I install updates. I have Ubuntu 20.04 and Manjaro KDE 20, and both are great.

6. have you tried alpine ?
   sorry if you have , i just haven't seen it.
   if you have i'd like to watch it but idk what you title it as if you did XD

7. How to get along with Arch Linux. It's not hard.

   1. Learn to use Pacman FIRST and have a good read of the Pacman article on the arch wiki. Use no other package manager until you understand Pacman properly. This is the only true package manager on Arch.

   2. Partial updates will probably break your system sooner or later – just don't go there. Before installing anything that needs to draw in multiple dependencies simply do a "sudo pacman -Syu" first and reboot if the kernel was updated. It only takes a couple of minutes on a reasonable speed connection.

   3. It pays to upgrade regularly but not obsessively. Once every week or two is great, but if you need this particular machine to finish a project in the next few hours it is probably a good idea to wait till the job is done first before updating the system. Breakages in my experience are rare and usually minor but sometimes a package will break until a dependency catches up a couple of hours or days later. If a particular package does break during an update you can usually roll back that one package temporarily until it is fixed by the maintainer.

   4. The AUR is a fantastic resource, but one that needs to be used with care. The AUR is essentially a library of package build scripts uploaded by – well anyone really. It has everything most people ever want but it is also the" wild west" and you need to look after the health of your system yourself. The advice on manually building and installing AUR packages makes a lot of sense. After you master that process if you choose to use an AUR helper that is your prerogative but by then you'll at least know how to scan a build script looking for potential problems and to check the AUR comments and popularity etc..

   5. When in doubt – Check the Wiki. It's the best resource of it's kind out there.

8. You keep saying "just jump on the AUR, install it and go" but I still have a difficult time grasping this. I just don't understand how it works. I can clone from github but after that the files just sit and I don't know how to actually install them. Things were so much easier on Peppermint and MX Linux.

9. Inspired by this series, I thought "Why not?" and gave Arch a try. In VirtualBox, of course; I'm not risking my three-years-stable setup for the sake of an experiment! Well, long story short, I had a couple of false starts and a few fixable mistakes, but after a few hours I had a working XFCE desktop with a bunch of tools and apps running nicely. If I do it again, I fully expect to be able to do it in under an hour. Thanks, Chris, I'm not frightened any more!

10. I've been personally running Linux for over 20 years. Of all the distros I've tried recently, Arch and all the arch based distros have all broken on me and not because I was doing anything ridiculous, but just simply running updates. I really tried to give it the time of day, especially since it was loosely based on Crux, which I found to be a lovely distribution back in the day. But they just can't seem to get their act together when it comes to simply updating a system and keeping it stable enough for day-to-day use.

    I'm getting old, I just want my shit to work and I don't want to sit there and fucking toy around with it like a two year old 😅.

    I hate to say it, but personally I find Debian stable to be the only distribution I've used in recent years that's even worth giving my time to on a day-to-day basis. And that's a distribution I despised when I first started using Linux and BSD.

11. Glad to see you stuck with linux. Windows Vista was the last straw for me and that was in 2007. I have not looked back even once. I consider the time I spent learning linux/gimp/kdenlive the best usage of time I ever spent. I hear about the horrors of Windows 10 and say "not me!"

12. CTK ARCH LINUX !! SMALL, FAST & POWERFUL LINUX DISTRIBUTION FROM FRANCE !! RUNS ON ALMOST.."ANYTHING" !!

13. I am using Arch. Its light weight and vastly configurable.
    I am sticking to it. 👍
    Had to reinstall it twice, I screwed up during installation.

14. I'm mostly an Ubuntu user, but I've had Arch on a laptop for about 2 years now. I saw 2 other comments say this and I'll add to the consensus: the longer you wait between updates on Arch, the greater the chances that something will go wrong. I would update at least every 2 to 4 weeks. And before you update, check the Arch website to see if the update will require manual intervention.

15. using arch linux isn't a challenge.. it's literally just a rolling release distro that is a bit harder to install

16. This channel is great. It is awesome to see you learn the same way I did and embrace the power and more importantly, FREEDOM of Linux.

17. I am really liking your content!

18. I am interested in seeing a 10 day OpenSUSE run. I am interested in that system but I had trouble to test it with a live-USB.

19. Arch is cutting edge, but it's a pain in the ass to maintain, I once left for vacation for a month, came back, tried to do sudo syyu, the whole thing was broken and I had to resolve issues with a few packages before the system completes its soul searching.

20. Solus OS next go-go

21. Who else remembers downloading 8CDs to install base OpenSUSE in 2005? Preferably on 1MBit? I thinks thats the reason Ubu beats the crap out of years ago, when the desktop lx widespread started

22. What I do not like about arch is the installer. I like to have a graphical environment where I can copy commands onto the terminal. However, once its running, it is great.

    So you will go distrohopping now? I actually would like to do that, but I guess I am really too scared for some reason. I dont understand the problem myself, though. I would have the resources to do it.

23. Hey Chris. Just discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago and love your Linux content (already subscribed). But please. Can you change out your webcam for something a little better? Or do something about the focus? Even at 1080p your videos always seem to be very soft and/or slightly out of focus. Other than that, thanks again for the great content and Happy New Year!

24. A lot of developers and geeks are on Arch so we have an easy way to install git versions or minor packages to tweaking, adding, modifying, fixing stuff. For example, Lightning calendar in Thunderbird is part of Thunderbird but its localisations are not in Thunderbird lang packs so most distros like Arch, RHEL, and others have Calendar only in English while other parts of Thunderbird's interface is translated. On Arch you can find a small package, simple gui and script that detects your version of Thunderbird, you choose language, wait a moment, restart Thunderbird and the localization is fixed! Such obscure packages are not possible to find anywhere or not as easy installable. If you want specific version or modification of a program, there is a good chance you will find it on AUR. And if you are more on the geeky side, you can learn how to write PKGBUILDS for source files or git packages so you can install them in the system and then you can share your work with others on AUR.

    AUR and PKGBUILDs is a brilliant system and makes things much easier than on any other distros. Once you taste the freedom on Arch, other distros will be too limiting.

25. Why dose everyone want me to switch to Arch? I'm trying to do the Linux Mint 18 month challenge!

26. Gentoo for the next distro jumping is a good option.
    People get scared because the learning curve of this distro, but after you break the lerning curve is the easiest distro available.
    rolling releases with stable packages is the perfect combination.
    My "new" laptop has a 3 years old gentoo instalation and the boot time is under 10 seconds in a mecanic hard drive.
    Gentoo is the perfect distro is you dont want to format the hard drive never again.

27. I imagine it was a great experience. Thanks for sharing.

28. Congrats on surviving the initiation / hazing ritual. You are now an honorary penguin. I think that makes you eligible for the corporate black geek card… a real step up from the generic geek card imho.

29. Happy New Year! Congratulations! Take a breath, fantastic videos! I never had time to play with Arch, I'm always to busy on a dependable Linux to experiment. Some day I'll play around. I've got to scan books today, can't afford to have any freezes. Many of us have work to do with our Linux!

30. Arch Linux is not crazy hard to use like most people think…you just follow the installation instructions and then add a desktop environment and a display manager..,and configure some other settings for your own usage or customise your desktop environment etc…after u install a display manager, arch is just as easy to use as u ubuntu…I run Arch on my HP Envy laptop and it runs great with zero issues…and when the day comes that i have an issue, there is an amazing wiki to check…side note, I used Kubuntu for about a year before using arch, so i had a fair amount of Terminal experience before i dove into it….butnlike i said above, once u have a desktop, the Terminal is basically optional at that point…personally i like using the Terminal and i believe some tasks are easier in Terminal than with a gui…anyway Arch is Awesome, build it the way you like it, and enjoy!

31. Will look forward to openSUSE… I assume you will do Tumbleweed? I tried SUSE once and it felt and looked really professional, but it was a bit much for me lol. Any love you can give for multimedia and dvd codecs in SUSE will be appreciated lol, snapd as well. And then, of course, YaST 🙂 Thanks for your work, Chris.

32. Don't use OpenSUSE. Take my word for it. It ate two of my machines, and nearly ate another one before I got it out of there. I'm not sure how it does it–it might be messing with something in the firmware–but even after I got rid of it I had problems on those machines that I had never had before installing it.

    If you want to try something a little more exotic, have you considered Solus? I haven't tried that yet, but I hear VERY good things about it.

33. I like the content so far Chris. Keep it coming and all the best for the new year! Don't want to do Gentoo, try Calculate Linux. It's based on Gentoo.

34. Windows: changing OS is a major commitment
    Linux: Keep a Windows & a few other linux distros in your BootMenu.

    Hard Drives are HUGE these days, no reason not to keep ARCH in the menu while you try other distros.

35. Please do openSUSE next…

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