Just wanna say I just bought an old used Lenovo Thinkcentre just so I can start putzing around with Linux again thanks to your channel. Really appreciate the time and energy you’ve put into these. You’re a likable dude too, and that helps!

@maclegaming4553

2 жыл бұрын

I literally bought the same computer for the same reason lol

@atpray

2 жыл бұрын

I got a year azure subscription with my education account. Very helpful to learn linux

@Shadetheartist1

2 жыл бұрын

Heads up to thinkpad users (i.e. laptop users), depending on if you have a descrete graphics card installed, you may have issues with Xorg not properly understanding which device (integrated graphics or nvidia/amd gpu) it is supposed to use. This will manifest itself as a black or frozen display, in both your chosen display manager (lightdm, ssdm, etc) and your window manager/desktop environment (plasma, gnome, i3, etc). You will need to open a different tty via ctrl-alt-F2/F3/F4/F5 and edit your /etc/X11/Xorg.conf file to set up the correct device for Xorg to render screens with. Your best help is to run startx or xinit and read the error logs until you pin down the issue with Xorg. I just wanted to clarify this for other users since i thought for a while it was a display manager problem. And also because there is a lot of older information out there that recommends fixes that didn't work for me.

@joehephwer1299

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shadetheartist1 thank you for making the effort to post this

@hfdcjiirjmcfi

Жыл бұрын

How's it going a year later?

3:05 Initial pkg installation 6:12 Installing YAY 7:28 Don't miss base-devel 8:05 makepkg (yay=AUR Helper) 8:45 Installing WM, Terminal Emulator and others 11:29 Copying xinitrc file 12:19 Editing xinitrc 18:15 startx after login

@Jerry-gi7gu

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making timestamps for this video.

Hell yeah much respect DT, I can do the base install but getting the window manager installed and configured is where I fall short every time. So thank you very very much!!!!!!!

Been on and off Linux for years, my first exposure was Ubuntu 6.06 in 2006. After Windows 7 stopped getting life support this year I've been leaning into Linux more and more. Mint is now becoming my main driver and for fun I decided to do an Arch install following your guides. Very clear and straight forward videos, I now have Arch running successfully in a VM, thank you! Keep up the good work!

@-r-3542

2 жыл бұрын

arch on a vm and mint as main system!?!?! WHY???

@-r-3542

2 жыл бұрын

@Sayon Huh...good answer...=o

@xrafter

2 жыл бұрын

@@-r-3542 What was the answer?

This helped me so much after my void minimal install :) Thanks man. You have a great way of explaining stuff generally. I used bspwm, feh and xterm on void, but still used you as pretty much a direct guide.

Thank you. Very helpful. I have been focused on learning Arch and I really enjoy watching your videos.

Hit dd five times to delete the last 5 lines: novice Hit 5dd to delete 5 lines in 3 keystrokes: intermediate Hit dG to delete from cursor to the end of the file: expert

Been using Arch for years, every time I do an install I still follow the wiki in case anything changes. In the last year, I've started using tmux and w3m (or any cli browser) to keep the wiki in the bottom half of the screen which seems really obvious now that I've been doing it but I never saw anything mention that. Might be a good tip for some folks DT. Glad you're on the other side of the storm brother.

With every video, the DT Wiki expands. I come here half the time I want to learn something interesting (like org modes).

Your channel is a gem! Thank you for all the great content!

I love this series. It shows that you can still build a simple system without all the bloat and mystery of heavy distros.

I've been waiting for this very video for a long long time. And now here it comes! I could not thank you enough. BTW, can you make a ricing video after this? Like polybar, audio and etc.

I was just finishing doing pacstrap on the /mnt directory when you uploaded this :D Nice one DT!

DAY 1: Generators and electricity is bloat. DAY 2: I miss you coffee, hot shower and operating system the Linux Foundation does not use.

@Silent.

3 жыл бұрын

I got the both of both worlds

@anantgupta7916

3 жыл бұрын

You are agreed to my thing in a different way

@loganreynolds8688

3 жыл бұрын

@Brahma Sharma hot showers do though, since it has to heat the water

@netbotcl586

3 жыл бұрын

@@loganreynolds8688 there are solar-heated hot showers.

@loganreynolds8688

3 жыл бұрын

@@netbotcl586 Solar as in heated directly by the sun, or by solar panels?

So funny to be so worried about the decisions you make in WHAT you install, but ultimately what's important here is the philosophy and what you (the user) decides to ultimately go with because you can find installations for specific packages pretty much everywhere but DT has helped me learn all the "layers" to building a linux environment from the ground up.

I love the thorough solid explanation

Thanks to you I’ve sorted with mint and I’ve not missed windows at all

Bruh You da shit!!! You helped me so much with this video(the first time I've ever seen any of you vids before)!! Things that I've spent days and weeks fukn around with you have answered in a few short minutes. I KNEW finding the rught person would make this possible but didn't expect to find you accidentally on KZread. So again TYVVM

Really useful - thanks DT

Thanks DT! I've been doing some research on installing/running Arch on my Raspberry Pi 4 lately as I'm tired of dealing with the official OS's ancient packages, and their 64 bit version is still "beta". Arch on arm, particularly on the Pi 4 in 64 bit, can be tricky to get working properly, but your videos will be very helpful once I achieve that.

Handy hint: when using vim and you use dd to delete multiple lines of text, if you dd the first time for the first line from then on you can simply use the period key to repeat the same action. I was so happy to use this after repeating the same key actions. Great videos DT :)

did my first arch install today. wasn’t so bad, but took two attempts. Then dwm suite. On a thinkpad x200…in 2023 😊

Dt thanks for wallpapers tip. Awesome collection. :)

@mecrumbly429___4

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but it's way too much. i only use one wallpaper at a time.

I like the fact that you did an install of an Xorg setup and not something like KDE or Gnome since what you did seemed to be more of a process and required more things to do. While KDE and Gnome kinda just do all that extra stuff for you.

Thank you for this!

Been making Arch VM's in virtualbox again and again for the past week. Now I think i'm ready to install on a spare system I have. My only previous experience with any Linux distro was on a raspberry pi about 5 years ago.

@Neko-kun-dp1hq

3 жыл бұрын

How did that go for you? Did you end up getting into Linux some more after that or was it really your last experience with Linux in general?

Thank you, Derek.

i started using i3 3 days ago and so far i love it

Love Your Content 👍

Your videos are gold!

I got stuck for like 4 hours wondering why dwm wouldn't start for me because I had the enable 3D acceleration ticked in Virtual Box. Glad to finally figure that out

If you're using dwm and x will not start properly even though the .xintirc is in your home directory and you added exec dwm at the bottom of it just like in this tutorial, try using another window manager and enviroment. For some reason x would not accept exec dwm as a command. Tried fixing it for an hour, checked everything, but it just didn't want to. However as soon as I tried it with xfce4 it worked on the first try. Dunno if anyone else will run into this problem, but I just wanted to leave a comment in case someone does. Great tutorial btw! :D

A tip for intel users: avoid using the intel drivers, instead use the modesetting drivers provided by the kernel for intel graphics. intel graphics drivers(xf86-video-intel) mess up a lot with especially with recording software like OBS. To properly set it: open/create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and type: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "modesetting" EndSection now restart the pc. to check if settings are applied, type: inxi -G and look for driver: modesetting one more note: you can use --needed to avoid reinstalling the existing pkgs in a group: pacman -S base-devel --needed

@safalpiya3759

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@drishalballaney6590

3 жыл бұрын

@NOZY mesa is for 3D acceleration and xf86-video-* drivers are for 2d acceleration. More info can be found on the arch wiki page for intel graphics

@drishalballaney6590

3 жыл бұрын

@check it but intel graphics also cause OBS and other screen recording issues

@drishalballaney6590

3 жыл бұрын

@kot aah and that's why always use a compositor like picom....also setting screen tearing on both the graphics driver and the compositor can be really buggy

@mecrumbly429___4

3 жыл бұрын

thank you sooo much. have a 5500 graphics card (i THINK, have no idea what it is) and had no idea how to configure it.

Awesome video, DT! I had wondered why you didn't install base-devel in the previous video during the initial pacstrap command. It's been a little while since I installed Arch, and I wondered if that was a change from before (like having to specify linux and linux-firmware).

@DistroTube

3 жыл бұрын

I wasn't really following the wiki while recording, so it might have suggested during the chroot. Either way though, install it then, install it later, makes no difference.

I have been using ls -al for 15 years and your ls -la is fucking with me hard.

Thanks DT!

@DistroTube

3 жыл бұрын

:D

Man, linux is so satisfying once you start figuring things out.

hey DT - I type yay -S dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-get nerd-fonts-monoki and I get -> could not find all required packages: st-distrotube-git (Target) dwm-distrotube-git (Target) dmenu-distrotube-git (Target) Am I spelling something wrong?

@tylernol1566

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/dY2lxpR6eLvVo84.html

This is nostalgic for me. I used to use xv -setroot -quit or something like that to set my wallpaper with fvwm or olvwm. I wish xv was still a thing.

Apparently your packages are not there in the AUR. Did you change the name or something?

@lm2668

Жыл бұрын

@@zer0reaction313 it did not solve it for me it says the key is not valid, and when I try to locally add the key it doesn't let me

@MiihiSuzuno-nn9jy

Жыл бұрын

@@lm2668 oh i spoke too soon. it tells me that i cannot sign the keys locally as well, of what the message says

@MiihiSuzuno-nn9jy

Жыл бұрын

@@zer0reaction313 Maybe i will try installing the software that he has, but the original software. using git clone or something. i think Mr Taylor's software is software he configured himself to his liking. it like importing or downloading someones Customized Emblems or Classes in Call of Duty Black Ops 2

I did a clean install on my desktop a few months ago, and finally decided to make use of git for my dwm and st, it's so convenient being able to screw around and figuring out what I like because version control makes it easy. I need to develop a better habit of making use of these kinds of tools. Things like these might be obvious to many, but I don't even know anybody who runs linux who I can discuss these kinds of things with.

@Neko-kun-dp1hq

3 жыл бұрын

I'm the only one in my house that can use a computer proficiently doing anything other than firing up a web browser. I feel you, man.

awesome video thank you

sound good bro !!

yay -S dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-git nerd-fonts-mononoki doesn't work. error: could not find all required packages: dwm-distrotube-git (target) st-distrotube-git (target) dmenu-distrotube-git (target) 😓

@AlejandroArroyaveValencia

3 жыл бұрын

I solved it with this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dY2lxpR6eLvVo84.html

@JKhalaf

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlejandroArroyaveValencia thanks for coming back and pointing us in the right direction.

I had fun watching this and I decided not to install Arch and just admire it from far. It's too much hassle and I don't even have the patience to customize BunsenLabs. Love your accent sir :)

Hi, how do you print those colored asciiart randomly in your terminal?

@DistroTube

3 жыл бұрын

Go to my GitLab and check out my Shell Color Scripts repo. Or on Arch, yay -S shell-color-scripts

@codeshowbr

3 жыл бұрын

@@DistroTube thanks! just cloned it and it looks amazing :)

Hey this is awesome, and I just finished my install with KDE plasma and i3 (I am learning i3), but to really bring in the major part of the market, laptop users, and for laptop users PRIME offloading is very important, it would be cool to see a tutorial on PRIME offloading and maybe a VM passthrough tutorial, the two easy ways of achieving 3D acceleration

@mrkitty777

3 жыл бұрын

Prime is a combination of integrated and discrete video cards? Like Intel Nvidia optimus?

@mrkitty777

3 жыл бұрын

Yes discrete Nvidia to guest and Intel at host

@bodlouk7011

3 жыл бұрын

It was such a boring thing to set up and then I discovered mhwd (Manjaro hardware detector) Just install it on Arch and its sets everything up in one command

@AndersJackson

3 жыл бұрын

@@bodlouk7011 only one command? That sounds boring and one wouldn't know what actually happen and why. I am all for automatic tools, but I really also want to know what it does. That is why front ens developers rally need to learn to hack some JavaScript, HTML and CSS manually before using tools and/or frameworks.

@bodlouk7011

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndersJackson I did it by hand 1000 times and I am pretty happy to have it automatized by people that know better than me

Hey DT, first of all love your channel. new supporter here! Just wondering is there a uninstall script for DTOS? would love to play around with it! :) and I was also wondering if there are dotfiles just to pull individual configs from? I love DTOS and would love to piece it together!

Thanks man!

@DistroTube

3 жыл бұрын

You bet!

At the end you talk about having "your own configs stored on your own gitlab/github". Would you make a video about this process? I'm interested but no clue where to start. Enjoying your vids, thanks!

@DABATTLESUIT

3 жыл бұрын

Check out GNU Stow

bro, I loved your Xmonad configuration (bar)! Do you have it on AUR as well as the DWM-Distrotube? Salve de Brasil!!!

@DistroTube

3 жыл бұрын

You can find my xmonad and xmobar configs on my GitLab.

For the first time, I could setup arch from scratch. But what window manage you use? You remain using dwm?

"Arch-linux is not time consuming if you come prepared"... What is time consuming is the preparation... but it is also a great learning experience

What do you use to show that random ascii art when terminal starts? Thanks

Enable 3D acceleration doesn't affect any startx functions. It's simply just a virtual box error, just power off and open again will solve the problem. Plus, if you disable 3D acceleration, picom glx backend doesn't work, which means picom blur-background won't work at all. Took me 3 days to fix this. ☺☺☺

Interesting shell)

Just some been there done that 'effed that up already. Install at least two desktop environments. Even if you never use it and preferably from different families, if your primary system breaks you don't have to but into your GTK desktop or cinnamon or one of the Forks we got out of Gnome 3 you can get into KDE or qt or whatever to at least figure it all out. Or you just roll the dice that the next roll fixes it and you can go back.

Lol experimented on my main rig on real hardware but i left my data partition alone and was very careful not to mess with it. Boots hell of a lot faster than ubuntu. Now time to get gnome and sweet theme for it.

can you please make video about creating own AUR repo ?

What was the WM the host PC was using? i3? (sorry if this is a common question).

hi dt what major linux distro are you using?

I use the command line version of timeshift so I can always revert back if I mess something up.

@ilyaa643

3 жыл бұрын

i wasted a whole day to make a hybrid installation of arch on my thumb drive and now i can use a program called usb image tools to backup and restore it. tried openbox and now i am trying dwm

Oh that version of VIM looks ok. If you've seen and were able to read any version of Godot's programming environment, that's not too bad.

DistroTube when you put thing in screen in screen mode ( The arch linux install video ) There is first a rare animation Did you aded the animation or not?

Hello, I'm a newbie in archlinux. Can you tell me how to customize a top bar menu like yours? Do you have any build conf for that? Thanks @DistroTube

I'm thinking about giving Arch a try. What window manager should I use? I've only ever used XFCE, and would like to try something new that is still light on resource usage.

Come from the instalation video xd

After some frustration figured out that atm (may 2021) none of the distrotube packages are on aur for whatever reason... so kinda broken

@cameronholtan3407

3 жыл бұрын

He had did a video as to why if I recall correctly.. before the title of it escapes me though. It was some time late April/Early May of this year..

@dogol284

3 жыл бұрын

What am I supposed to do?

@kenielf

3 жыл бұрын

@@dogol284 The packages he installs are his own custom build for his systems, the regular packages still exist within the aur. You can install the regular packages yourself, and if you're really wanting his dotfiles you can git clone them through his github page. Overall, read the arch wiki installation and post installation guide, there are a multitude of ways of building your system, the packages will work normally, it just won't have his patches/theming.

@jonathanlee4653

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenielf could you kinda walk through it step by step? I am complete beginner here and I am pretty much stuck at 10:29 when he installed his own thing

@kenielf

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanlee4653 Yes, of course! Do you have any way I can contact you to make things easier? Like discord or something for example? Or would you prefer me to just say it here? Is it his setup exactly or do you have anything else in mind?

❤❤❤

Starting your WM with xinit has at least one major security issue. If an attacker manages to crash your X11 session they are presented with a logged in shell from your user. Then it's just one sudo or other security issue away from getting root access or at least tinker with all your files. A login manager won't have this problem so you should probably use one.

"Grab virtual machine, and paint that Linux with me"- Bob Ross

Thank you DT! Can you please make an updated video about Picom configuration (for Intel HD Graphics) to fix screen tearing? Specially when scrolling in the browser!

@scottw5584

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Abhilesh, I think I have met exactly the same problem as you and I just fixed it. Look at my guide if you like: github.com/Wangwj98/My-Manjaro-i3wm-Ricing

@nilz91

3 жыл бұрын

if using picom, use glx backend and enable vsync. tada! i do the xorg way though.

2000th like!!!

@Distrotube can you do a tutorial for startx and twm

8:34 Could not find all the required packages dwm-distrotube-git (Target) st-distrotube-git (Target) dmenu-distrotube-git (Target)

@tiddonees2087

2 жыл бұрын

They removed the files from the AUR. Check out his video on that, or if you want. You can find the files in his gitlab which is mentioned in his description

@JobFernandezSonofGOD

2 жыл бұрын

@@tiddonees2087 thanks a lot

@garyespitia460

2 жыл бұрын

I found the new reference video, and I figure that at 6:09 of this video I have to clone this repo and keep going. BUT, cloning the gitlab repo produces the following error: GitLab The requested URL returned error: 503. Which goes over my head on how to solve. This is the referred link: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dY2lxpR6eLvVo84.html

you can use pacman to install yay as well.

Just a small suggestion, please increase the font size on the terminal.

Mn that room setup,, where all the magic happens

I receive an error stating that it is unable to find all required packages: dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-git

@nicofreedom2268

3 жыл бұрын

Exact same issue...

3 жыл бұрын

I have same issue, can anyone answer what is problem ?

@YourLocalMedic

3 жыл бұрын

@ I think you still need to add in the font as he never fixed it

@harpritsingh9359

3 жыл бұрын

@@YourLocalMedic i think he removed the packages.

@linuck3403

2 жыл бұрын

the packages were removed, just go to his arch repo on his gitlab and do what it says in there

Yay is in the standard repos for Manjaro. I've been using Manjaro so long so I took it for granted that proper Arch doesn't have it.

@TrueDetectivePikachu

3 жыл бұрын

lol! I also use Manjaro, but I kinda got used to pacman and going to AUR and from there installing stuff. Yeah I know, not the most optimal thing, but heh, it gets the job done

Any videos about nouveau drivers with Arch Linux? Would appreciate it.

If you want to delete all lines that follow -- and you're at the end of the file just do: dG

ty so much for the tutorial , i did install arch linux with awesomeWM and i like it but i have some visual blockiness " like blocks when i hover over buttons". i searched a lot but i didnt find any solution if anyone knows how to fix it . i wish you share it with me. thank you so much

tip - @13:00 use 5dd to delete 5 lines

Base install I did once again last night took me 9 to 10 minutes, depends on the Internet speed and our typing speed lol😅🤣🤣

What are the hotkeys to open and close terminals? Mine opens with Win+Enter but I can't close it

I have much better luck with VirtualBox in Windows with a Linux guest by setting the display to VBoxSVGA with 3D acceleration off (ignore error). And set System> Acceleration to KVM. But you have a Linux host so I'm not 100% sure, but it should still be smoother.

Next part with filemanager dependencies please!

How can I turn up the System performance on the top bar ?

Hey DT, great video, but $ yay -S dwm-distrotube-git st-distrotube-git dmenu-distrotube-git nerd-fonts-mononoki -> Could not find all required packages:

@atahualpaarias1840

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/dY2lxpR6eLvVo84.html

@GodofDumps

2 жыл бұрын

Same problem

@TrjLee

2 жыл бұрын

@@GodofDumps you can remove distrotube only dwm-git...

@garyespitia460

2 жыл бұрын

@@TrjLee So it would be $ dwm-git st-git dmenu-git ?

Would have been nice to have tried it out. Never once have I been able to get arch to install on my solid state drive. Hell at least it would see it, Slackware would not even see it. Had to go with Fedora as that seems to be the only distro that I have tried that it will install on.

I'm probably going to take the time to build my own nothing against A guy taking the time but part of my arch build is I want to make the entire thing myself! Thanks for taking the time to make this video!

Thanks, hi from mexico, just one issue, could yo lend me a list of the hotkeys i've seen that aren't the default ones.

3:20 for some reason this video driver didn't work for me, with LightDM and IceWM. The "xf86-video-vmware" driver worked instead, even though I'm VirtualBox.

I managed to get your build of DWM running, but everything is much too small and I haven' t a clue how to solve that.

I did the install and all VirtualBox but my screen resoltion doesn't change. when I set it up in the settings or with xrandr it just sets back to normal after seconds. What should I do?

Anyone know the set up he has in the beginning while choosing which VM to open?

I have a 3440x1440 monitor and I would like to know if there is a windows manager, that allows me to for example have one workplace with Firefox where Firefox would use 2/3 of the wide and when I open discord, terminal etc it would open on the right to it with half the height to allow another program to be started below. FYI I recently switched to Linux so would call myself total beginner

Hello ! When i type shift+alt+enter in dwm, it did not react. Can you help me to fix this ?

@playeurk2012

3 жыл бұрын

@@lavapenguin Ok thank you mate !

My real question is how do you set dark theme in Oracle VirtualBox???