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@Purrxz

10 ай бұрын

No

@WazzupBruddahs

10 ай бұрын

Love you Muta.

@henrigeorgesdemanou9993

10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@SonikPixelz901

10 ай бұрын

Hi guys

@msmraptoryt

10 ай бұрын

y e s

I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of Windows installations were incorrectly selected and were suddenly wiped

@Voyager5171

10 ай бұрын

I wiped out windows 10 cause system update. It was outdated. So the system update would stop at 95% every time. I donwloaded Linux mint. The battry life on my surface pro 3 has improved and never once experienced any heat or fan noise

@kajojo2399

10 ай бұрын

Windows on my laptop doing updates that took a day to complete, and effing terraria crashing the whole system during the online school drove me insane, that was the main reason I switched

@TheAssassin2299

10 ай бұрын

Oh, you think that's bad? If you have a Samsung NVME, for the love of GOD, update your SSD firmware with Samsung Magician or the executable USB version. The firmware bricks the SSD into Read-Only Mode. Applies to both the 980 Pro and the 990 drives. I'm currently having to use a 250GB SATA SSD because my 1TB did that thing that Jeffrey Epstein didn't do.

@Leon_Portier

10 ай бұрын

Unplugged my windows hard drive while installing linux. Win is save, but Grub did not like that.

@juanromanlopez4959

9 ай бұрын

That's my origin story, back in 2007 circa Debian.

Arch Linux users are like Tesla drivers… they’ll make it their whole personality

@poisonsnivy6439

10 ай бұрын

Muta owns a Tesla too I think Or at least driven one a month ago

@WizardBarry

10 ай бұрын

i use it on steam deck and have no idea what I'm doing 90% of the time

@rulesofimgur

10 ай бұрын

That's why I use EndevourOS. Because I don't know what im doing and it takes a lot of guesswork out

@GuyFromJupiter

10 ай бұрын

As a Steam Deck owner I'm technically an Arch user. I wish I understood it better lol.

@kenzie4217

10 ай бұрын

I agree that both groups are annoying. But at least arch users dont defend slavery like Elon cockriders do

Over 100 forum posts, about 2 pdf guides on Linux, 10 different wikis dedicated to aspects of linux codes, partitioning, understanding hard drives, I spent 1 whole day trying to figure out how to properly setup a hard drive for Arch Linux and could not understand what the fuck I was doing wrong and Mudahar swoops into my recommended videos summing up the issue I was having so simply that I actually managed to setup my hard drives and get my arch system to install, and from someone I would never have expected to have been taught this from. Dude you are my hero for making this more understandable then like 90% of the people I was trying to get answers from. Seriously. Thank you.

@hanhthien2948

3 ай бұрын

just use windows, linux will break sometimes, why make it hard yourself?

@MrVIB113

3 ай бұрын

@@hanhthien2948 because Im a curious, angry, stubborn, imaginative person that likes to believe there's better alternatives to things I'm growing increasing disinterested in and thus willing to experiment and deal with the headaches to achieve that, while getting excitement from troubleshooting, learning, and adapting to new things involving my hobby?

@hanhthien2948

3 ай бұрын

@@MrVIB113 what u dislike about windows? Or u just install Arch and then say 'I use Arch btw' like those tough guys on reddit?

@MrVIB113

3 ай бұрын

@@hanhthien2948 Alright embrace yourself for the TLDR if you're really curious. Do you eat the same thing every single day? Do you never think about taking another route to work if you know it can save you time? Do you play the same game endlessly without trying out different titles even when you're board of playing the same game? Do you complain about how slow your Internet is, or how expensive your insurance is but do nothing to look for other options? It's simple man. There's 2 elements here. I like trying new things, more so if it's related to a hobby I'm deeply passionate about such as computers. I've never used Linux before. I only started using Linux because that's what the Steam Deck uses, the Steam Deck also uses Arch. So if you put 2 and 2 together. My interest stemmed from me having exposure to Arch, and spending almost a year with it to the point where I'm comfortable with it. Installing it raw and memorizing all the kernel stuff? Yeah that is new to me. But hey. I've already invested a lot of time into just learning to navigate it on my Steam Deck. Understanding how to set it up. Install stuff, etc. That was enough to convince me I could learn it. So I became convicted to learn. You wanna talk about something complex? I wanted to get into 3D modeling. One day I said fuck it and started learning how to use Blender. I spent almost a year learning it. How I know how to use Blender. Wanna go further? I learned enough with C++ within 4 months so I could make a mod to a video game Left 4 Dead 2 to understand scripting to add stuff to the game that I wanted to add. Then the next thing with the Arch comment? You're treating me learning Arch like I'm magically a neck beard loyalist that everyone memes about where I swear by Arch and it's suddenly my god or something.. I've only spent like a year with it through Steam OS. Nah bro I just like learning stuff. I will dedicate a lot of time learning shit, and trial and erroring stuff cuz it's fun for me. Some people are like that with cars. Others with Psychology. For me it's computers and software. As long as I have the motivation I will learn. Then regarding my disinterest in Windows. Understand. With my love for Tech. I've been using Windows since 2000. Windows is really all I've used until now. Just like with those examples I gave at the start of this? You just get board of things over time. If you really care about your hobby. You branch out. Try new things. I wanted to learn Arch because again. I was already exposed to it and having that experience just made sense to go with it over other distributions, and ya know even if it was Mint, Ubuntu, or ChromeOS, all of them would have done what learning Arch so far has done and that's just make using an operating system feel fresh and new. Sure Linux is fairly similar to Windows anyway especially if you're using something like KDE but setting everything up, learning how installing things works, setting up drivers and security, optimizing my setup. Just made using my system feel more exciting because it was all new to me again.

@oblivikun

2 ай бұрын

@@MrVIB113 if you like tinkering with your computer and desire for new things try gentoo. its a distro where u compile everything from source, usually very fast but its not super rolling and bleeding edge like arch, there is a stable and unstable branch. useflags allow u to switch inits fairly easily, it supports musl instead of glibc!

This is one of the best Linux videos I've seen. As someone who has used Windows almost exclusively for the past 25 years, one of the things holding me back was just not knowing how stuff worked in Linux. If I were to go down the road of moving to Linux, I'd probably end up doing this myself. Not necessarily as a daily driver, but to get an understanding of the components and commands and how to gel everything together into something usable.

@antikz3731

6 ай бұрын

I switched to Manjaro with KDE fully just before 11 released. Nowadays I can run anything for Windows minus AntiCheat software. Otherwise it's a seamless experience. I recommend Manjaro specifically because of the Arch based nature having the ability to use Pamac and the AUR it's extremely useful. The days of needing to be a coder to use Linux are long gone. This is definitely neat but extremely unnecessary in 2023

@jratnerd

4 ай бұрын

If you use linux mint, ubuntu, manjaro, pop_OS! any of the desktop friendly linux distros, you will not have to go through all of this, they all have easy to use installers now.

@NavatejRatnan

4 ай бұрын

Even then it does need minimum knowledge, as majority of functions involve using a terminal, which windows users tend to be afraid of "cmdphobia" like thing. @@antikz3731

@grigorigahan

4 ай бұрын

Bit late to the party, but honestly as someone who uses both all the time, I'd say the best thing to do is either run it in virtualbox or make a bootable USB (persistent). This will let you play around in a non-committal fashion (and experiment with what you like). Linux isn't for everyone, and I say that as someone who would pitch my windows install in a dumpster the moment I could game without pulling teeth on Linux. But you can really learn a lot before going full dive just by messing around in a virtual machine or usb install.

@Sahelantrophus

3 ай бұрын

play around in a vm first, and arch can be easily installed now through either endeavouros or archinstall

Literally just installed Linux From Scratch on my university laptop today and spent 3 hours trying to get my wifi adapter to work. Can confirm that being waterboarded is a nicer way to spend your evening.

@doublepipe.

10 ай бұрын

@@giusdbg That's true. I probably would have given up an done that at some point but I figured out that I had to download additional firmware AND a kernel module I needed was disabled.

@rupe82

9 ай бұрын

I've just installed Mint and thankfully everything just worked out of the box on my laptop. I've had a number of issues getting things set up the way I want tho, it's so much easier on Windows.

@doublepipe.

9 ай бұрын

​@@rupe82 True, what you can do on Windows can be done rather easily and it's very well supported, but sadly the things you can do are very limited. A good Linux distro is a big help since those usually have great support, too, though sometimes you gotta figure it out yourself.

@Glomly

9 ай бұрын

Wifi is the number 1 problem in any Linux system. Big wifi chips companies write their firmware exclusively for Windows and they're trying to encrypt it as much as possible so some chips require basically hacking into the hardware

@tapwater424

8 ай бұрын

are you using a broadcom wifi chipset by any chance?

Literally tried my first Arch Install a hour before this vid went up and couldn't do it, Praise be to the almighty Indian Tec support

@technophobian2962

10 ай бұрын

I would recommend looking over the installation guide on the Arch Wiki too before an install. It seems daunting at first, but if you have an understanding of what's happening when you're installing Arch it's a lot easier to solve potential problems down the line.

@khaled.aldajani

10 ай бұрын

just use the archinstall script that comes with the ISO

@kaywee

10 ай бұрын

how do u fail bro the wiki tells you exactly what to do

@PhenomRom

10 ай бұрын

@@kayweelmaooo exactly

@s1nistr433

10 ай бұрын

Indian guys on KZread can teach atomic brain chemistry and turn it into a simple process that a kindergartner could understand

My desktop runs Gentoo Linux and I just installed Arch on my laptop. Both groups have fantastic in depth install guides. They're fun projects if you're willing to devote the time. And the only difficult part of Gentoo is researching hardware components and drivers you'll need to build into your kernel (optional).

@adam7802

9 ай бұрын

Dumb question... but was Gentoo worth it? Any issues with using it as a daily driver?

@wekkimeif7720

9 ай бұрын

@@adam7802 Gentoo is meant to be used by those who want to build system for themselves from scratch from nothing. So yes you can daily drive it as long as you put the time into it and build it to be system that you want.

@adam7802

9 ай бұрын

@@wekkimeif7720 I know what it is... I just wanted to hear someone's experience of actually using it.

@aaronryder4008

9 ай бұрын

No, you're talking about linux from scratch. Gentoo isn't even that difficult to install it just takes time because it compiles everything that is all. Granted there are some specific applications like qtwebengine, firefox, rust, etc which can take a lot of time thats why theres binary files for it too. Also, gentoo handbook is way easier to follow compared to arch installation guide. The only thing I don't like about gentoo handbook is that it gives warning after the actual commands so if you have already ran the command and read warning later you're fucked(kind of but not really)

@nikolaradovanovic4883

9 ай бұрын

@@adam7802 I am using it on my work laptop, server and desktop. No issues: community is great, docs are fine. Most problems I have had is when I was setting up my hybrid laptop nvidia/discrete, but it is not Gentoo's fault...I really love it and use it for years

I usually use the command archinstall which helps to install Arch much faster, but it's still nice to see it installed manually

@v0xl

7 ай бұрын

i prefer manual install, more stuff to configure

@Kai-Made

7 ай бұрын

@@v0xl personally I like installing it in the dark, blind folded and drunk. Cause this is too simple. lmao.

@arntingle5725

5 ай бұрын

I installed arch twice (PC and Laptop) manually, It was not a challenge at all, the guide is pretty good. Since then I only use archinstall since I value my time somewhat.

@asialsky

5 ай бұрын

archinstall tends to fail if the drive is detected as mmcblk instead of sda/sdb. Manual installs on Chromebooks are a pain. 😅

@wta1518

3 ай бұрын

I personally prefer installing Windows because I like my computer to just work without it being a full time job.

No matter what video mutahar makes, he's still one of the happiest people on KZread

@sergiokaminotanjo

10 ай бұрын

hes like a little boy sometimes xD

@MoisesZTech

10 ай бұрын

FR - his happiness is contagious

@kenzie4217

10 ай бұрын

Thats what makes him the best youtuber. Dude could literally be talking about a mass murder and hed still have that huge manic grin

@hellomikie92

10 ай бұрын

@@kenzie4217 Exactly.

@breadmoth6443

10 ай бұрын

the only time i see mutahar really really pissed off, is when it is something crappy related to the shenanigans of gaming companies or worse - creeps online that he covers.

For a Second I thought Muta was gonna install Linux from Scratch

@veco311

10 ай бұрын

The only youtuber who I know did that was brodie roberson. He did it live on a series of streams. I can't even imagine how much mental damage that did to him...

@darukutsu

10 ай бұрын

​@@veco311he started doing from reviews and configure software to "Real News and Reaction in Linux Foundation"

@backhdlp

10 ай бұрын

I expected Gentoo, I don't think he's insane enough for LFS yet.

@Shubadus

10 ай бұрын

Clearly it's time to learn NixOS and the Nix language.

@backhdlp

10 ай бұрын

@@Shubadus I gotta be honest, that's one of the next distros I'm gonna install

This is one of the most comprehensive Linux install videos I've ever seen. I've got experience with it, but I usually screw something up using it and go back to Winblows. I like how you broke the CLI bits down.

Thanks for the guide Mutahar, this was my favourite one. You have a bright soul within you and it shows.

love you muta. as a burnt out sw engineer, I miss this shit. glad you can make a good living doing this and not having to rot your brain in a cubicle. you are great at explaining shit like this while being informative and entertaining at the same time. keep it up big dog

@s1nistr433

10 ай бұрын

He should install LFS and make his own distro. I would definitely run MudaOS on my main PC

@randino2030

10 ай бұрын

Facts, the comedic relief is relevant and the timing is Gold

@thecalham

10 ай бұрын

As a machinist I love code but goddam I can't focus on it unless I'm getting paid

@killmonger8058

10 ай бұрын

He also works IRL at a job with something to do with tech! So homie making decent money while using KZread as a hobby that he truly enjoys!

@pialdas6835

10 ай бұрын

@@Boatloadacoffee yep this is pretty much accurate. A day in the life of a Linux sysadmin.

i didn't expect the "hardest" system to be arch lol

@2012Accounts

10 ай бұрын

It's just a meme bro

@blindsniper35

10 ай бұрын

Honestly it's expecting gentoo

@alexandr_guluta

10 ай бұрын

i thought it would be gentoo honestly

@kingofnoobs9728

10 ай бұрын

I thought it would be Linux from scratch

@seanicus100

10 ай бұрын

Surprised people are saying this. I was about to reinstall Arch today and was surprised by this video *actually* being about Arch. Was expecting templeOS or something truly obscure. Arch is more of a pain than Mint or Ubuntu but yeah it's not really super difficult once you already know Linux a bit. It's clear Muta was making a meme.

Amazing! Well done video. So far the best one I have seen. Great job man!

Thanks Muta! I wanted to ditch Manjaro, but wantrd to stay on Arch; this was a huge help. Also your content was the final push to get me to dump Windows in the first place.

I’d consider gentoo to be a little bit more complicated but the setup can definitely be similar. Main differences is you get to mess with the actual kernel and set flags for your system whereas arch build process is already “preconfigured”

@kyleklukken4089

10 ай бұрын

Yeh in my experience Gentoo is a bigger pain. I've installed both Arch and Gentoo and Gentoo was by far worse.

@The_Last_Question

10 ай бұрын

I’ve done the arch install method, with the script and stuff. Ended up not liking arch cuz I’m not used to pac man and shite. Was wondering if gentoo would let me build out something with all of the “features” I want.

@CallMeCOM

10 ай бұрын

@@The_Last_Question if you didn’t like Pac-Man, you won’t like emerge!

@dereklathan

10 ай бұрын

@@CallMeCOM portage*

@andymorin9163

10 ай бұрын

I’ve used both and Gentoo has been much more stable in my experience. Install isn’t too hard either, just lots of reading

45 minutes of saying "I use Arch btw" over and over again. Muta, you outdid yourself this time!

😂 this was a great start to my Saturday... thanks brother...I've been noobin' around in tiny core....debian...and now we go for arch 😅...LFS omg I'm stuck in the middle of currently trying to learn some assembly language...😊....actually having fun is so critical...love your energy...🙌🏽💗

Definitely one the BEST videos you've ever imported to the Internet. Thank you for that.

I'm stoked to see more linux content from you muta, it would be cool to see more on how you configure your environment (VMs, containers, etc)

@sk3l3tor416

9 ай бұрын

i use arch btw

@WSH3TM

9 ай бұрын

@@sk3l3tor416 what DE do you use? I personally use both xcfe4 and KDE plasma

@drinkintea1572

9 ай бұрын

@@WSH3TM xfce low specs and kde should be default at this point, flexible af

@basstr795

8 ай бұрын

@@WSH3TM i use artix linux w/ openbox and on a diff pc artix with i3

@WSH3TM

8 ай бұрын

​@@drinkintea1572agreed. Personally I like KDE plasma better its so much better with zsh

I'd recommend anyone installing arch use a swap file instead of a swap partition, it makes things easier to change later, you can shrink it, and expand it as needed unlike a partition. Instead of a partition or portion of your disk being used as swap space, you'll use a file inside the main partition stored wherever you'd like giving you much more versatility. It'll require a little more jumping around the arch official install guide instead of following it exactly, but it makes it easier to maintain later if needed, for example if you upgrade or maybe even install less ram. The general rule of thumb is to make your swap space 2x the amount of your ram, but I'd you're starved for disk space or have a ridiculous amount of ram, you can use 1.5x or if you're super desperate or have like 128-256gb of ram, just 1x, for 256gb I might even use 0.5x because you'd be using a quarter of your disk as swap.

@KingKrouch

10 ай бұрын

Got a good resource on how I'd set that up with hibernation?

@TheOriginalEvanium

10 ай бұрын

I usually omit swap these days, and use zram if i can.

@justshitposting8411

10 ай бұрын

@KingKrouch honestly, I've never thought of that, I always just turn my computer off fully because ssd boot times are near instant, and I used to run LUKs encryption, so a full shut off is the only safe way to leave a computer, I'd imagine you'd need a swap file bigger than your ram size, so you'd want to stick to 1.5x for it to work reliably

@justshitposting8411

10 ай бұрын

@TheOriginalEvanium it's doable if you have enough ram, I was trying to install arch on a PC with 4gb of ram as a plex server (I think it was, it's been a while), and pacstrap would just fail the install saying that it ran out of memory, I thought it was stupid, but adding even just a 2gb swap file got it to finish the install, I'm not sure if that was exactly the issue or not, but it fixed it

@Redribbo

10 ай бұрын

i recommend anyone to not use linux and instead use windows.

LFS was a great time waster while I was in hospital recovering from a pulmonary embolism. At the end of those three weeks I had a rudimentary understanding of how and why PCs work, and literally no clue why my laptop wasn't booting up no matter what I did. After LFS, even Gentoo feels like you're installing your system with safety wheels on. And installing Arch by hand is just Gentoo without waiting two days to compile firefox, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@ivanschekoldin7315

8 ай бұрын

back in the day I compiled LFS on P3 in 64 mb of ram. For some reason, I don't remember it as a particularly long process. But it was a long time ago and those days I did stuff like compiling gentoo packages after scraping for internet traffic to download the source

Loved it! Hope to see Gentoo next!

16:45 - What Muta does here is called a partial upgrade, a state where the database and certain packages are out of sync with the rest of the system. This can break packages that were built with older/newer dependencies. Make sure the system is up-to-date before installing things, especially if you're on a live ISO.

@mind_11

10 ай бұрын

I tried to pacman -Syu on the live USB, but it says that the partition is too full for the upgrade. Should I just do what Muta does here because it's only for the live USB?

@facespkz_osu

10 ай бұрын

​@@mind_11 For bash scripts like rankmirrors, that should be fine. However, the live system seems to come with reflector, which does more or less the same thing. Just be sure to read the man page or --help option.

@verumignis4778

10 ай бұрын

@@mind_11 the live USB dosent really matter, its just a bad idea to do -Sy without -Syu once its installed basically -Sy will update the lists of available packages while -Syu will update the lists and the installed packages if you update the lists but not the system then you try to install something, the package you installed might require a feature in another package thats already on your system but it wont work because the package on your system is too old to have that feature. This can be fixed by just running -Syu and updating the system which will bring that package up to the newest version with the features required by other packages. This is because arch is a "rolling release" distro, this is where you always get the very latest packages, its not always the most stable but it means you get features earlier than those ubuntu plebs (please dont install ubuntu). when you try to do -Syu on the USB you are trying to update the packages on the USB, this wont work though as there isnt enough space on a tiny little USB stick. The purpose of the USB is to contain the tools needed to install the OS, it dosent really matter what version they are as long as they are all compatible. also quick tip: always look at the news on the arch website before updating, occasionally they will release instructions on what you need to do before updating (one recent example is they recently moved to git so everyone had to change the repos in their pacman config).

@raggebatman

9 ай бұрын

@@facespkz_osu Yeah, the install guide also recommends to run reflector on the live system because pacstrap copies the mirror list from it

@iWillAvert

7 ай бұрын

As far as I have been able to tell so far, doing -Sy initially when you're in the iso environment is perfectly fine. Just to be safe anytime I had to pacman I just would do -Sy each time whether or not it was necessary. It was only once I actually had finished, and then rebooted into the actual install, did I then run -Syu as the first thing. No issues as of yet.

You actually make this not so bad. I use the the install script but for most of the setup I'm familiar with since I tinker with my system a bit. The only new things are setting up the bootloader and locale. Setting up partitions is always tedious for me especially since I use BTRFS. But understanding what each step does drastically reduces the level of intimidation that newbies would feel. Also..."zorg" lol

@pialdas6835

10 ай бұрын

@giusdbg Yeah I messed with the grub console as an emergency shell before. Nowadays, if I get boot issues due to misconfig of my partitions I just boot up an arch iso live environment that I have in a usb and fix the fstab entries. Also, since I use btrfs I can always restore a snapshot from a backup hard drive but I'm guessing maybe grub has access to the btrfs utilities? not sure but either way, i think i have somewhat a robust setup. my only issue is that since i use btrfs subvolumes to separate root from home rather than partitions, i can't encrypt my home directory as far as I've read. hopefully btrfs brings that feature in the future

@zeph8620

10 ай бұрын

Do you have suggestions for essential device drivers? I use the archinstall script with bspwm and I don't have essential services like USB mounting, battery indicator, audio, etc.

@fiethsing9988

10 ай бұрын

@@zeph8620 Not him and a bit late but you can check Archwiki and just search those things there, there's whole sections with the most common choices and their pros/cons...

used this video as a guide for installing arch on my laptop for the first time! got it running hyprland now, thanks for the help mutahar!

Glad you covered this. I've given you a hard time in superchats, but your level-headed authenticity is well applied to a story like this. Cheers, Crag!

Muta got me into linux. Now its been 1 year since the shift and I've tried numerous distros, hopping from one to the next. Finally settled on vanilla arch. What a journey it has been. I'm glad i found out about this community.

@furdiburd

10 ай бұрын

I stopped with feren OS. It just had everything i nreded out of the box. Driver manager, scanner, pdf reader, libre office...

@TriflingToad

10 ай бұрын

I finally got a duel boot of tiny11 and Ubuntu running. I installed it like last Friday. Hope I can stick with Linux and not fuck it up like my last 2 attempts lol

@Harsh-mg2em

9 ай бұрын

If you were not into Linux before, what made you stay with such an advanced distro? I hopped a bit as well but stayed with Ubuntu just because I had not been able to brake it, unlike other distros somehow.

@Mantikal

8 ай бұрын

If instead of focusing on distros - try focusing on Package Managers and Repositories. From that angle, Linux becomes ridiculously easy to sort out. There are only 6 surviving original distros from way back. Each one has its own unique package manager and Repositories - that have their own custom way of forming commands to get things done. Here are the original distros - Slackware, Debian, Redhat, Suse (pronounced "Su - sah) , Arch, and Gentoo. You'll discover that about 95% of the time you see a "new" Linux distro" "OMG - ooooh wow" - it uses the same Package Manager and Repositories as one the 6 originals. All they did was put a different window dressing on it and maybe they added an extra new Repository just for that new distro. Oh and a word of warning - you know the part about typing a bunch of programs after each other - after the "-S" - well if anyone one of those programs is not in the repository you're pulling from, you just wasted your time typing. The system will cancel out all the ones that you wanted. Instead just make a list of the ones you want and type them in one at a time after the "-S" and hit enter.

@ZisisKoukoumakis

7 ай бұрын

I admire both you and Muta for your dedication to the open source community. Have fun!

Been wanting to get into Linux stuff for a while so this was a super fun watch. I really enjoy the Linux related content on this channel.

Thanks Muta. I managed to get arch successfuly installed and running in a qemu vm yesterday following this vm. Course I immediately screwed it up trying to get audio over xrdp working.. But Now I can refollow this a lot faster this time around. I was impressed both by how much of this I didn't know, and in some ways how much I did.

I have to come back and thank you immensely for this video. It helped me a ton even though the first time I saw it I didn't think much of it

lol this channel actually taught me how to install arch from scratch. Been rocking with it since. Loving the freedom and control that comes with this flavor of Linux. Also ludicrously stable coming from Manjaro.

Archinstall script: Exists Muta: I'm Gonna Pretend I Didn't See That

@ptomalak

10 ай бұрын

Trimming "hardest" installation below 5 minutes would diminish the legendary status of arch difficulty, Muta can't afford such rookie mistakes. Next part will be installing AUR packages with git clone & makepkg because using yay is non canon.

@technophobian2962

10 ай бұрын

I don't think the Arch install script is great for beginners because you'll have no idea where to start when solving an issue. It is good for saving time when you already know what you're doing.

@charles0396

10 ай бұрын

​@@ptomalakarchinstall is the only reason I even got it to work on my computer without pulling my hair out on trying to learn how to configure it to my exact preferences back then. Great starting point for amateur Linux users (i.e. those with at least some knowledge on disk partitions, file systems, etc.) who don't want to be inconvenienced with going the extra mile of tinkering their Linux system by hand. I think it might even help them eventually learn the "difficult" Arch installation method later when they get the motivation to dedicate their time on it, especially since some of those people may want to learn more about operating their Arch system.

@user-lk2vo8fo2q

10 ай бұрын

@@ptomalak trust me man, you don't want to just install shit from the aur like that. the package quality is all over the place.

After testing in dual boot for a month I now switched over to arch from windows and want to say thanks for this guide, i hope you leave it public forever so if ever needed I can rewatch again and again.

Very epic muda i had a few issues here and there because im a noob but got it running in the end 👍

we need more of this geek stuff brother. love watching your guides and virus dives. be good my friend

I installed Arch a while back as a second OS on my system, quite a fun exercise ! Would be nice if you could dive in and show us how you set up your windows VMs for gaming and such under Arch :)

@BAGG8BAGG

10 ай бұрын

Just use arch as a headless hypervisor system and have your vms use qemu and have two GPUs for external outputs through vfio. Then just VM manjaro and windows and live a happy life.

@user-lk2vo8fo2q

10 ай бұрын

@@BAGG8BAGG i run manjaro on my laptop but honestly i probably wouldnt do it again. it's not a bad distro but it doesn't really give you much beyond what you get from regular arch.

@xeon39688

10 ай бұрын

​@@user-lk2vo8fo2qit's basically user friendly arch

@tylerdean980

10 ай бұрын

​@@BAGG8BAGGif you're basically never going to be interacting with your bare metal OS pick something more stable than arch, like debian or Ubuntu, less hassle that way

@mikigod6879

10 ай бұрын

he did. Video is something like building poor shamed computer

I love that you made a video about VMS.

I'm new to Linux and this is by far one of the most informative and entertaining videos I have seen .

I like seeing Muta having fun explaining stuff😊

blkid can be handy to identify disks as it shows you the Partition names and UUID's as well Also: as long as you are in the installer you can omit sudo as you are root the whole time, until you create a user You missed a trigger in the mkinitcpio, the initram has to be rebuilt on kernel and on nvidia updates if you have the modules in there, but it should be usable with only the kernel parameter

@sk3l3tor416

9 ай бұрын

i use arch btw

@goawqebt6931

8 ай бұрын

Lsblk can show all of that information as well

@Thiccalus

8 ай бұрын

@@sk3l3tor416lol

One of the best installs guides I have seen in many years.

When you said hardest I was expecting you to perform the ancient rite of *Install Gentoo* I've installed Arch a few times before, I'd say it's less that it's Hard, more that it's just quite manual, though thankfully it does have a package manager and it can bootstrap your install. Honestly, all you'd need is a small installation script, and it could be made almost as easy as your average distro.

I thought this was going to be about that one distro that wipes your system if you mistype a command, I find that one to be really amusing. I really like the freedom of use-flags :) with most asus boards f8 also brings up the boot menu directly too!

@jimhopper5868

10 ай бұрын

I known, right?

As a long-time Linux user/Distro hopper since the old days of 06' messing around with Linux, I have to say Muta - You made a great guide for Arch here that simplifies it for the user that has the time. I went and did your install step-by-step from this video. The only issue I had on my machine after successfully getting it up and running was getting secure boot enabled after the install, using 'sbctl' and a few guides though it was done/enabled fairly easy. Another was for messing with the loader.conf (separate from the arch.conf in the guide,) but I've had to deal with that before so it wasn't that big of a problem to solve for switching between linux kernel or linux-zen in systemd. Other than that, your guide was perfect! Would be awesome if you could expand some more videos going into things like pass-through stuff with QEmu/VM's for GPU's, and maybe some of the more technical stuff like setting up the Arch/Linux distro's for security with things like firewalld or whatever you would recommend on Linux for security. Great video nonetheless! I always look forward to your content like this regarding Linux and Tech related things! :D

Oh, I read the title and thought it was Gentoo. It makes Arch look like a walk in the park

After purposely avoiding this video because of its clickbait-y title (i still hate it), and me trying 4 different linux distributions these last 5 days to see if I actually learnt anything in school... Watching this video made me appreciate how all my frustrations regarding the multiple failed arch installations I've witnessed all week, could have been avoided by watching this video, which all my future arch installations will closely follow from this point onwards. Thank you for this extremely clear and in-depth video tutorial regarding the Arch Linux Installation process because I sure couldn't have said it any better than you! Definitely checking your channel now to see if you have other, complete build from scratch, tutorials on your channel because this alone was just so informative, thank you.

that stream where muta installs arch has actually been my go to guide for years glad we get an update lol

@mrbanana6464

10 ай бұрын

I just used the arch wiki when installing arch I'm surprised not everyone uses it

@diego032912

10 ай бұрын

​@@mrbanana6464 People don't bother doing their own research most of the time.

@animeloveer97

10 ай бұрын

​@@mrbanana6464people have terrible reading comprehension and it flies right over their head 😂

@qualifiednot

10 ай бұрын

@@animeloveer97 well i am functionally illiterate but still pretty good at talking just ask ur mom she had a lot to say last night

@mrbanana6464

10 ай бұрын

@@animeloveer97 tbf though the installation guide is probably the least accessible for a beginner due to the branching of information and how easy it is to skip something you thought was optional or missed because you were only skimming the guide.

Arch is simple. Will give a Thumbs up for installing Linux From Scratch.

@humanlyhuman420

10 ай бұрын

Agreed

Went on this adventure a few years back, but your video is great, shows the adventure avoiding all the pitfall and rabbit holes I went down!!

Hi Muta, Thanks for your Video. Has been very helpful to refresh me Manual installation of Arch. Has been A PLEASURE to replicate your steps in QEMU; HAVIING ENJOYED A LOT YOUR SWEET INSTRUCTIONS. YOUR HAPPINESS HAVING REACHED ME 🤩😄👍 Thanks again.

I loved my experience installing Arch. I have it dual booting on my main PC taught me a lot about how operating systems work. also reminds me I need to write a helper function to configure my wireless cuz I still have to do it manually every time I connect to a new network

@liviusolcovenco6575

9 ай бұрын

Use a frontend, e.g. iwgtk

This man can turn anything into an entertaining experience. I suddenly feel the urge to wipe all of my machines and put Arch on them. Awesome video! It's instructive and entertaining, though I'm not sure it'll convert any Windows users to Arch.

@emirhadzic4996

10 ай бұрын

I've been hopping back and forth, but the last thing holding me back is running on Linux now so I'm going back to it permanently now I think.

@Sypaka

9 ай бұрын

Just wait until they figure out how to passthrough a GPU into a Windows 10 VM... jk, but to be honest. if you just browse the internet, do Office work or watch KZread, any OS will do. It's only for gaming, which requires Windows.

I'm just happy Muda wants to spend time with us!

Quite an adventure! Not sure if I would go that way myself, but it is somewhat tempting (but not that much). Anyway, I viewed the whole video, which is not something I use to do to those kinds. Good work, though!

Been mostly using Linux Mint since 2008, it's nice and middle of the road, just doing the jobs required of it. 🙂

So glad LFS got a mention, done it a few times and had a blast. I once did it on a sparcstation 5, took like a week to compile gcc. ;)

I was just typing command lines from Arch wiki before, but with Muta’s explanation I feel like I actually know more about loonex now

This was actually fun af to watch. Think i might try this

I got clickbaited so hard. I saw the title and thought I'd be seeing Mutahar installing Linux From Scratch. I'm a bit biased though, as I've reinstalled Arch so many times I can do it from memory, without the archinstall script or even the Installation Guide on Wiki. I'm really indecisive, lol.

@humanlyhuman420

10 ай бұрын

Same

@redrush-hp9li

10 ай бұрын

same arch aint even hard you just need to partition ur disk mount pacstrap, setup locales and install ur bootloader and WM/de aint that hard

Linux has been one of the most fun projects I have picked up. Would recommend.

@johndor7793

10 ай бұрын

y

@alecmackintosh2734

10 ай бұрын

@@johndor7793 it's pretty fun to use an operating system where you have more control over your computer. Obviously having more control means more responsibility, so make sure you know what you're doing before you use it on a system with more sensitive information.

I've had passing, intermittent flings with Ubuntu, and I am aware of "the Arch Crowd." So, when I saw "Hardest system to man!" I was expecting Gentoo, or Linux from Scratch. Regardless, I am happy to see other people branching into the Linux ecosystems to that more market share pressure helps develop support for the different variants.

@arnox4554

6 ай бұрын

> "The Hardest System Known to Man" > Even talks about Gentoo and LFS > Installs Arch We got mega clickbaited, bro.

We need more of these

I used to daily drive Arch, probably by far one of my favourite distros, I like the control over your system it gives you, and it how quickly packages get updated, but that is also the reason, I ended moving away from arch, newer packagers means great new features sooner but also bugs as well, and sure for the most part if your system gets to point it wont boot, you can use your install media to chroot in to your system and fix it, but some point you just need to get work done and instead you having to figure what package broke your system, or maybe system does boot, but after been using it for while, you find all ram is in use, and you got figure what it using it all. Just something to consider before making arch you main system.

@jimmyrichards5595

10 ай бұрын

I’ve used Garuda Linux(arch based distro) quite a bit and really loved it! It’s great, especially if you need the latest linux kernel and software because your hardware is quite new. But for the reasons you listed in your post is why, for ages, my favorite Linux distro has been Debian. Especially Debian “Testing” because “Stable” is so old/outdated. But when running “Testing”, it is quite a bit like running a rolling release distro, such as Arch. However, it not quite so bad because the packages are not as bleeding edge as Arch or Debian “Unstable”, and the packages are in “Testing” because they have gotten through Debian’s “critical bugs” phase while they were in the “Unstable” branch. There are always trade-offs to running stable vs. bleeding-edge. I usually run Debian Testing because it’s a nice in-between for me. It also requires the occasional reinstall. Just seems that there’s a need for it considerably less frequently than when using a “bleeding-edge” distro. With that said, when my laptop was brand new I used Garuda on it for a year, without much issue at all. It was after that first year that I started having a couple of worrisome issues, and then I switched back to Debian Testing. 🙂 In the end I love both of them. But for reasons, Debian is my favorite.

@Noyota2

3 ай бұрын

Wisdom from an old guy: too much of my precious life was wasted with my head under the hood! Wish I could reclaim the hours wasted on Arch to have spent it with my children. If you have a job to do, get a stable Debian-based distro, do your job and get a life. I use MX Linux KDE and LMDE6. Both stable and predictable, reliable and trustworthy. Dependable. I have time now for golden sunsets from the world-renowned beach 295 metres from my home office.

Gentoo is definitely harder Muta. It took me over a week after 4 attempts to build the base system and compile the kernel and user-land tools. No binaries over here my friend. We emerge (Portage) everything from source.

@damnyanletter2627

10 ай бұрын

He says Gentoo is harder, he's just memeing in the beginning

@PanduPoluan

2 ай бұрын

Gentoo users, unite! (Also I know Muta was meme-ing hence why my comment -- in a different thread, directly under the vid -- ended with a meme as well 😊)

I know I've commented multiple times before, but i just wanna say that this is probably my favorite way to install linux solely because of the simplicity of it after the 3+ hours i took to set it up

@SomeOrdinaryGamers this video motivated me to move from Mint to endeavourOS, and week after I moved to tiling VM, thx!

I used to use an arch based system, however I switched back to Mint, and with Distrobox I can just get all of the aur packages I need in a much more stable environment (I know it’s not the same but it’s good enough for me)

I'm slowly moving from ubuntu onto arch, mostly because my system was already super customized and ubuntu/apt are getting in my way too much and I know pacman has everything up to date and is fast. I wrote my own configs for awesomewm, picom, neovim, all the ricing and etc but not everything is working properly yet because turns out there are a lot of software I didn't knew about that comes pre-packaged with Gnome and other DEs that I didn't give too much consideration into. I'll get there eventually, doing everything by hand is hard but at least I'm learning a lot.

@PompaTG

10 ай бұрын

Good for you. If anything, Arch gives you the opportunity to learn, so if you have the interest (and sometimes patience), it's a really nice distro, especially when you set up your own environment like you've done. I haven't tried awesomewm myself because I'm happy with xmonad :)

@knightblad5631

9 ай бұрын

This man sounds like a wizard.

You don't always have to resort to trial and error to find the correct key to boot into the firmware, as you can often reboot into the firmware with: `sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup`

This is gonna go down in history as Muta's best video! Am saving to do this later. Do ya'll recommend getting a separate SSD for this?

When starting my 3 year apprenticeship in germany for systems integration, installing Gentoo was my first task. It's been the first to-do for any new employee, regardless if they have experience with linux or none at all.

@yep596

10 ай бұрын

Since you're in Germany, did you encounter many systems running SUSE Linux during your apprenticeship?

@PascalxSome

10 ай бұрын

@@yep596Only older systems. We currently have about 20 in use, which we will replace in the next few months, either with debian or a Rhel fork like Rocky Linux

@barskaracadag3923

9 ай бұрын

hi bro can we talk about the apprenticeship

@PascalxSome

9 ай бұрын

@@barskaracadag3923 what you need to know

@dillon1012

8 ай бұрын

Based.

Nice vid, Been watching them for a while and enjoyed all of them, They give great perspectives on the various topics, When I've installed Arch my self I've always struggled with what the best or best way to set the sizes of each partition for like 1tb drives or 2tb drives ect..., I have always been a M$ user since the DOS 6.22 then 7.22 but since they killed their DOS environment, for me M$ computing has lost most of it's charm, for me now watching this video I will surely go back to Linux and hopefully never Install windows outside a VM ever again, Windows Died after WINXP & WIN7, Keep up the great work bud.

Trully is magnificent and i hope one day people realize their hardware is theirs and should cater to their own needs. Even if people prefer keeping it simple and less personalized we should aim for open source. For instance buying a device such as a smartphone only to be limited to that brand's whims of what you should be able to do and acess with your paid for device is nuts. Phones shouldnt be software locked nor should they cancel warranty for doing so, to the extent that software damage shouldn't have to also be fixed by them if it is no longer OEM. Amazing video and a fresh take on the usual stuff

thank you muta, very cool!

Please place /swap at the beginning of the drive if you are using an SSD. This ensures trim will not destroy /tmp. Ext4 filesystems rarely need trimming but there is the potential this could happen. /swap should go at the end of mechanical hard disks. This is because of the natural movement of the drive spindle. The drive has to break less to reverse direction when swap is at the end of the disk. This increases the life of mechanical hard drives to think about where physically on the disk partitions are located. You dont think this matters, but proper alignment choices can/will prolong the life of mechanical drives. Make this is a general best practice to add a few months to your drive's expected life.

@PanduPoluan

2 ай бұрын

??? How does TRIM causes problems with /tmp ??? Besides, why not use tmpfs for /tmp?

Imagine being a parent and instead of grounding your kid or whatever the punishment you use is taking away their windows install and making them use linux if they want to be aloud to use the computer. That would be pretty messed up 😂 untill the kid becomes a hacking wizard and uses the skills to get you back

@Isaac-ci5wy

Ай бұрын

Wild idea but at the same time would be a great skill to learn

holy... i've been into this computer things since 2002 even im working as it rn but man this thing felt like im a HUUUUGE ignorant... i did used lots of linux and i got 1 org. ubuntu disk but this thing is completely different. i need to research about gaming on linux and then maybe i can install my own arch build. instant sub and like at the end of the video my man. Thanks!

clickbait title, i came here for a "i use gentoo as a daily driver" video and all i got is another archlinux video

Just a tip since I noticed you doing `clear` a couple times: you can just CTRL + L instead to clear faster.

@tylerdean980

10 ай бұрын

That works unless you use vi keybinds in the shell

@DexieTheSheep

10 ай бұрын

@@tylerdean980 OOF. It also still lets you scroll up to old messages which might not be desired, but it's usually way easier than typing `clear` for most purposes so yea.

Was expecting Gentoo or LFS lmao

this was by far my smoothest arch install to date. I even got home working on a separate drive update: customizing this os has been one of the most fun hobbies I've had in a while

Funniest install guide ive ever participated in - Thank you.

No shit i just finished installing arch like 15 minutes ago. Imagine my surprise when I open up youtube to relax after two hours of this shit just to see that Muta posted a tutorial 2 minutes ago XD

Arch is a great intermediate tinkerer's OS, if I weren't already so tired from my day job it's probably what I'd rock for the next year or so. But I've got too little time for this so I just slap Debian Stable on everything and call it a day, the thing needs basically zero maintenance.

@halfsourlizard9319

8 ай бұрын

But at the cost of ancient packages and approx-never releases ... Don't get me wrong, sometimes that's a feature ... I run both Arch and Deb ... for very diff purposes. Porque no los dos!?

To save your fingers instead of having to type `clear` every time you need to do that press `Ctrl+lowercase L`. Can also press `Ctrl+d` to do the same thing as `exit` if it's a blank line.

The only video I carry around on an USB disk alongside custom installation stuff regarding btrfs. might also have some adult cartoons on it. Good shit.

i don't have linux, i don't plan on installing any linux distro, but muta is so entertaining that i decided to watch the whole thing anyways

At 41:53 when he says use the defaults, I’ve searched around and it seems most people are saying that pipewire, wireplumber, and vlc for the phonon-qt5 backend are preferred and have more development focus… all of which aren’t the defaults. System will work either way so do what ya want, it’s linux

I'd always get lost in all the wiki tabs I had open, but even as clear as this video is, I was still managing to screw something up with networking. I got to a desktop environment with archinstall, but it was J A N K Y. Still, going through that whole process clued me in to what I actually wanted in the base install, so all I did was add networkmanager to the pacstrap (I'm used to that, and my laptop only has wireless internet), and after I activated the connection, the rest of the tutorial fell into place. Gotta say, I'm actually feeling confident enough to set it up on my gaming rig, now, so thanks for pointing that out, Muta. Because the wiki has a page for it, but doesn't bother mentioning it in the installation guide. I kinda get why, but it was still the thing I needed to know about before I could figure out how to do it myself.

Muta literally yesterday i switched from using windows since windows 3.11/windows 10 to ubuntu because of work and was the best choice i ever made

Exactly 1h before this video came out i gave up but Mutah came to save me from windows thank you my hero

Can't tell if Muta is pronouncing Xorg as "zorg" as a bit or if that's actually a thing. Either way I support it

@juannaym8488

10 ай бұрын

X in English is sometimes pronounced as Z for some reason. Anxiety for example is often pronounced anziety

@Chad_Thundercock

10 ай бұрын

@@juannaym8488 I'd say it's more of a zee sound smashed up the ass end of an ing sound. Like "ngzuh"..

@kasuraga

10 ай бұрын

@@juannaym8488 Better example is the first X in Xerox.

@MadAliceInWonderland

10 ай бұрын

@@kasuraga Or the classic in all ABC books for some reason, Xylophone.

@pialdas6835

10 ай бұрын

I remember him first saying "graphic" card rather than "graphics" card back in the day which threw me off a bit ngl. Now it's "Zorg" lol. Maybe muta is one of those ppl hoping for X12 and Zorg is the successor of Xorg

i get entertained watching you doing this

MUTA GOT THAT SLICK CUT! THAT FRESH FADE!!! THAT NEW DO!!!! THIS IS INSANE!!!! LOOKING CLEAN MUTA! GO GO GO GO

Another alternative to a just ready system is garuda linux. Also a smoother tool to use alternative to rufus is ventoy as once installed to the flash drive you can drag and drop your iso to the drive and you're ready to boot.

i would have just used "arch install" command which will launch a simple install wizard listing everything you need without having to remember all those steps Muta described. Muta's way was the expert/advanced method. I've been rocking the Budgie desktop environment and quite like it.

@halfsourlizard9319

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's about a bazillion times easier ... would have been done in about a 20th of the time / hassle.

Friendly note: if, for any reason, your pacstrap installation fails due to a PGP-trust issue, run "sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring" first, then repeat the pacstrap command (44:55)