"I use Arch btw", a statement so bold, My system's so sleek, it never gets old, From the AUR to pacman, a tale to be told, Arch Linux is the best, a fact so well-sold.

My story is very similar, I was on arch 8 years, but no more. I'm now on Debian Stable and... ewerything just works. Cheers.

Hey, great video... just discovered your channel. Doesn't Endeavour offer something aside from Grub on the install? I use Arco on the laptop and Spiral, which I highly praise personally on my server. I've been using Linux since '05ish but I'm just now starting to learn what is actually under the hood. I'm also in my 40's and I stuck through the video btw. Glad to find ya

arch is a journey, not the end

Oh interesting! I haven't used grub on legacy bios until fairly recently when I attempted to install Arch on a Coreboot X220. I think the whole grub issue might just be your hard drive is formatted with GPT instead of MBR, which happened to me on my first go around with an install. There's extra steps with a BIOS/GPT set-up unfortunately. Glad you found a new home though! Arch has always been good to me, but I understand that's not always the case for everyone else. Which is totally understandable given the nature of the distro. I've been fortunate enough to have long-running rolling Arch installs on my main machines (I just clone them over when I upgrade hardware/laptops) and fairly reliable fresh installs on my secondary machines that I experiment Libreboot and Coreboot on. Arch isn't the "end all be all" distro though. They've definitely had some missteps with how they handled specific manual intervention cases (i.e. with the whole grub update debacle) and how they've constantly changed what ships on their ISO (I do think the archinstall script is rather convenient). So if you found something else that works for you then more power to ya! 💪🏽. It's all about finding the best for you 😌.

DO you use XFCE or KDE ? I want to use XFCE but i also like Kwin. I wonder if XFCE has a good inbuild window manager

I would share the same story but with Manjaro. After 5 years and 3rd death of it after the upgrade I wasn't even able to recovery it from the timeshift snapshot. Now I'm just wondering if it wasn't maybe indeed something related to the grub, because it stopped on that stage and I could not reach even the bash. On my old Dell laptop I'm not able to use UEFI so looks like somebody have made the choice on my behalf... Anyway, currently I'm happy user of Pop OS and for now I'm really surprised how well maintained it is. Obviously my opinion about this distro will be more objective at least after few months.

I had the same problems with Manjaro every install would start glitching out or missing or just not work even tho it was fine the day before

Hi tuxer you should enable the KZfaq dubbing option like other creators have done, it would be great to see you that way!

I used a Arch respin for a while, but the constant perl warnings made me uninstall it. For almost 5 months now I've been using Kubuntu 22.10 with backports so I have the latest Plasma release. So far so good. It's still running smooth. Which Open Suse? Leap or Tumbleweed?

MX Linux has been a solid Debian distro for me. Sure they are an anti system D distro, but they still give the option to use it in the install. I like Apt pretty well , but Nala is an interesting project for a package manager for Debian. Have you checked it out?

I like Debian (Raspbian, Kali ,LMDE etc.) but I'm surprised you didn't go from Arch to Gentoo. I learned a lot about not only Linux but also operating systems themselves by doing stage 1 Gentoo installs years ago. Slackware is great as well for proper Unix compatibility and stability if you need it. I work for the 999 emergency services so reliablity is key. Thanks for an enjoyable video 😀

I'm on Arch. First it broke after installation, then I installed EndeavourOS which was bloated, so I installed Archcraft, then ArcoLinux. Things breaks from time to time. That's why I stick with Arco which is not the best choice, but Eric Dubois is great on his KZfaq fixing fast what's broken. Still, things breaks a lot. Now I cannot use out of the box my cellular modem, but only workaround works. The thing is that there is a lot of pain, but with that there is progress of learning. I don't recommend it to any person who wants to have stable OS. Debian breaks a lot as well, because you won't be able to stick with old packages, so either you sacrifice a lot of SSD space installing flatpak or other things or just break things with backports. Thing is that Debian is slow, you can feel it using it. Old and slow and Arch is like ADHD teenager who is full of energy, but breaks things sometimes. I would rather control a teenager and have an interesting life than be with old people all the time. There is no perfect distro out there, no matter if somebody tells you that. People are searching for perfect everything, so they buy Mac or iPhone. It's stable, but you cannot play games on it. The same is with Windows, you can game, but give away your personal data. No perfect distro, even if you pay for it. The key for me was to accept that, but sometimes I'm tired. Guess it's a learning curve for all of us.

i went ubuntu, fedora, back to ubuntu and then to arch, been using arch for the last 4 months now, i found it to be more stable than ubuntu or fedora. At least in my case in ubuntu or fedora things were either missing (NDI plugin for obs), or they just broke out of the blue (games stopped working after they ran fine, VLC deciding to not play video if render window was docked to main window) and many little things like these that made me go to arch, never had anything break on Arch so far.

I don't understand why your grub doesn't work. It lets you select it on the archinstall script and automatically puts it in your system. I'm relatively new to Arch and grub has never broken, even after customizing it with a splash screen.

Good- You should use the distro you are comfortable with- I on the other had swear by it and it elped me stop distro hopping-

i wonder if you ever tried void linux, which i think solves a lot of issues that i have with arch usually

Interesting. I've used Arch based distros for the last few years and have come across a few issues like this. The last straw was OBS and their unhelpful discord. Arch is good, but I've been looking at a replacement and installing the flatpak of OBS or any other native app that's 28mb is totally unacceptable. Q4OS is nice and I've used it on older machines, but I've found Alpine Linux seems to fit the bill with older machines. I have been experimenting on a VM with 1 core and 512mb RAM and have had plasma desktop running in 184mb. Discover software manager works nice as Alpine comes with no GUI frontend for their APK manager. You've inspired me to make a little video on installing Alpine desktop on low end EOL machines. Nice little video. Keep them coming.

With Debian, I use Spiral - from the same guy that made Gecko for OpenSUSE

Why would you use it in the first place?

if you want bullet proof, go slackware. No fluff. No idiocy. Just working.

Arch developers get sadistic pleasure form putting out things that they KNOW will break lots of systems. They probably get drunk and laugh at people in the forums that are trying to remedy the carnage that the Arch developers intentionally caused.

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I moved to gentoo because of more control of the components

i use arch btw and it is the best as it provides the customization i need.

opensuse is a pain at times

Yeah fam that tattoo,....bit excessive

I feel that arch has only been more stable...

THAT - sir, is THE main problem with ARCH-- they think they have to ALWAYS be UPDATING and IMPROVING-- (neither of which they ACTUALLY DO each time it upgrades)... when something works- it's BEST LEAVE IT THE F..ALONE-- but they. I installed 3 differnet arch distros this weekend-- and LOVED them- FAST , beautiful- nice-- and they updated and upgraded THIS WEEKEND and would NOT work any more... that's BULLSHIT!!!! I figured if they're going to change every time I fix something , SCREW THAT-- I have more important things to do with my time left than spend it FIXING what the new " improvement's" F..k up!!!! SO- making me a shirt that says "PISS ON ARCH"... Like that little cartoon you'd see in the back of cars that would say piss on ford or piss on chevy or whatever.... :)

f UEFI lol I would not want newcrap like this or systemd not in 10 not in 20 not in the next 30 years or in the rest of my life

Arch Linux Toxic Community Anime avatars...none of this guys are grown up man Pathethic installation process.. AUR

I used Arch for 7 years and I eventually moved on to NixOS. I moved on because I liked the guarantees that NixOS provides and was tired of having to configure everything manually. NixOS works, period. End of story. The learning curve on NixOS isn't terrible. I had every machine in my house switched in a week, and was able to exactly replicate my old config without any issues. The major issue with switching is changing all your shebangs to reference usr bin env because nothing is in the usual location. Once you get that done, setting up a desktop environment is a one-liner, changing desktop environments is a one-liner. At the time I was running xmonad for a desktop, super simple to install. You mentioned qtile, and enabling that is as easy as setting services.xserver.windowManager.qtile.enable to "true" in your configuration.nix. I don't know your workflow, so I can't comment on anything specific to that, but you mentioned software development and devops, so I'll comment generally on that. NixOS makes both of those a total dream. You have projects like devenv (I'd link, but youtube hates links) that allow you to have isolated development environments with very tight version pinning for dependencies. You can also very quickly and easily enable and spin up Docker containers. Nix is actually better at building Docker images than Docker is in some ways. (See nixos.org, click search, then NixOS Options, then search for oci-container to see how nixos handles containers at a system level.) If you know Docker and Nix, you will never have a problem with a development environment because Nix probably allows you to do what you need to do, and if not, Docker definitely does. Take 2 hours, spin up a VM and see if you can get your config ported over in that time. I'm guessing you'll do it. Every change happens in etc nixos configuration.nix. Build your config with sudo nixos-rebuild test for changes you want to test and sudo nixos-rebuild switch for changes you want to keep. If you can do Arch, NixOS is easy.