Hey Everyone! I misspoke and called Gnome/KDE Display "Managers" When really I meant "Desktop Environments". I'll be sure to clarify in the next video when we install arch and choose a Desktop Environment / Window manager. Thanks!

My man single handledly creating more nerds in this world lol. Keep them coming you nerdo

Btw a small correction: the Long term support releases didn't really get affected by the xz vulnerability because their xz packages were already pinned at an old version. Ironically enough, Arch and several other bleeding edge rolling release distros had the version with the backdoor distributed for a short period of time before it got patched to the newer safe version (even though the backdoor didn't work on Arch since the ssh distributed via Arch didn't depend on xz).

One minor thing: display managers are just the thing you get after booting up prompting you to login. Gnome uses GDM and KDE uses SDDM, by default. Display Managers typically allow you to start different sessions. On GDM for example, you could launch into the Gnome Desktop Environment, or into i3 if installed 🤪

Love this! Excited for the coming episodes!

Can't wait for new episodes coming!

Thanks man. Excited for next episodes

This was great. Looking forward to the series.

LOVE IT! Is it so bad wanting the next episode like NOW? Keep working nerd, doing GREAT!

Pumped for this series. My wife is taking her first steps into the GNU world and is pumped to see the next episode already.

You are such a good presenter. I was able to get 99% of what I needed up and running on my Mac with your guidance, keep on making this great content man!

Man , youe neovim series got me hooked nd bkw tbis series too gonna blow up sooner or later 🔥🔥keep it up ! Thabks Nerd !

Awesome video! I am looking forward to watching the entire series. I have a similar env in my macOS with yabai, skhd, neovim, and tmux :)

I'm glad to see you're going to cover these topics, many people don't switch to linux because of the initial learning curve. I believe the series will help a lot with that 🙌

great video very exited for this series as someone who wanted to get into the ricing part of linux for along time

Thanks a lot. I was waiting for a complete noob rice tutorial for all this time. I think this is the one. Love

Fantastic video looking forward to future episodes

When I decided to go with vim I founded your KZfaq channel with vim series. Last week I decided to go further and install arch and this series comes. Man.. I love this channel so much, thanks you !

Awesome start! I wish I had had something like this when I was starting to play with this style of setup. Had to learn how to configure i3 from scratch myself haha

cant wait to see your i3 configs

Hey man awesome series this and configuring neovim You make so understandable for people like me 👍

Can't wait for the Arc install guide!

I like this series, so i am excited to know more about linux ❤ thanks

Nice vid, recently got into linux and this vid would have been super helpful when I was just starting out

Looking foward to this series.

This is really a great idea for a series, we are currently missing that ! I kinda disagree a little bit with your arch point of vue, but anyway, I also use arch btw, and I think its a really good distro to do programming. Thanks Typecraft, can't wait to see the next !

Man, LOVING the videos lately! I'm running Fedora with AwesomeWM myself, and it's been such a great change. Still running (and loving) macOS for work, but whenever I can dip into Linux, I'd much rather do that.

I switched from i3wm to sway, and am psyched to watch this series and level up my use of these tools!

i been waiting for such a course :)

I cant wait I was about to move all my files on Windows to follow with you, it's been 7 days I hope if you can post everyday in this series, I'm really exited and wanted to learn neovim on linux asap

Amazing, love the content!

arch documentation is really amazing. In the past I used debian and fedora derivatives. If something broke I search tons of forums and read people's problem, comparing them with mine and then fix it somehow. Not the best experience. But with arch I almost exclusively use their simple doc and it solves all of my problems. Also there described comparability with different tools, not only pure arch Linux setup, which is great

i love theseeee!!!! (video series, but influencers mentioned as well)

a solid .1 intro, nice to se a breakdown type of workflow.

Amazing content. I am excited to watch the next one. When is it comming?

I will enjoy this eposodes, this is what i need, keep going :)

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing it

Curious to see how to get i3wm working with a HiDPI display. All of my Linux machines are laptops with HiDPI displays and when I tried setting up i3 I ended up spending too long trying to figure out how to get both i3 and the applications to scale properly before giving up and going back to KDE.

Great start to the series! Where can I get this beautiful wallpaper?

Nice, I'm really looking forward to seeing your config! Btw, have you ever considered using NixOS instead of Arch?

I'm already running Arch with Hyprland, Tmux, and Neovim. Just here cause your content rocks!

What a time to be alive, through the advanced technology of tiling window managers we can run multiple full screen applications on individual desktops that in no way resembles the way I used tty1-6 on the console when I first got started with Linux in 1998.

Hi, I see that you using that nice terminal bar with all those rainbow colors, I cannot find a video where you're setting that one up? I already have TMUX with Catpuchin but still missing that one piece. Can you help me out? EDIT: Is it a starship? Can I get the setup?

I come here for the intro and stay for the content, everytime..!

Awesome as always ❤️

Dude, just why didn't you exist earlier man, do you know the shit i went through to get to where this video gets a person ? Dude an year of hell, literal hell to finally call linux home. Your channel is god man!

much needed series!!! keep going..............

damn! This is more exciting for me than any Netflix series. Super sad that there’s only one episode available so far 😄 I’ll wait all to come out so I can migrate from windows. I absolutely hate using neovim on WSL (ubuntu). I am new to neovim btw and set up things from your neovim setup course initially. Thanks for the amazing content :) can’t tell how much I appreciate it

wezterm when? Love the vids keep up the work!

Wow!!! We see that another great playlist is starting. I'm excited about it.

i need this wallpaper. can someone tell me where to find?

I've been struggling to install arch linux like that for the past weeks, can't wait to watch the next episode hoping that it helps

At it again with another awesome course.

Ur content is gold keep up the content!!!

Great video. A couple corrections: point release distros also deliver security updates as soon as possible. rolling release is got for if you want the latest and greatest features not more security. You often say display manager when meaning desktop environment. A display manager is just the lock screen in linux lingo.

nicely put. out of curiosity, have you switched to linux long term or is it more of an experiment?

2:40 funny point right there, since rolling release distros were the ONLY distros affected by the exploit, mostly fedora's rolling release. Stable releases or LTS releases didn't have the version of the library with the exploit yet when it was discovered

Thanks nerd. I look forward to watching next episodes

Subbed and ready for the whole series

Can’t wait for next episodes

this series is going to be a godsend 😎

You’re just like Netflix. Always putting out a new series. The only difference is that you don’t cancel on them.

The mustache man is back with another incredible series ❤🎉

@typecraft what program are you using alternative to neofetch

You are the best youtuber ever i seen please make more and more content you are awesome

Great series idea!

Loved your series about setting up neovim. It helped me out a lot and I really love using it now. Can't wait to see more from this series. Multiple workspaces are a great tool to have. Just hate that it took Windows so long to make it a standard option. before then, using Linux at home and coming to work and having to use windows always felt like I was downgrading. Still kind of does, but it isn't as bad anymore. Still will never put Windows on my home machine again.

Thanks for this introductory video! I've always been stumped by the workflow of tiling window managers, so have always avoided them in the past. You've convinced me to give it a try at least. I look forward to your upcoming videos.

I would appreciate if you did a full setup with the manual install of arch as well for educational purposes. The arch wiki doesn't tell me much beyond the basic installation and the same goes for most of the videos beyond really old ones. I don't mind if you even start with an already basic install done and just helped setup what we need after that.

Interesting! If I wasn't working on a fairly new macbook then I'd look at getting a laptop with Linux. which machine do you use Typecraft?

Wheres the rest of the series? Great videos! hopefully more coming up soon! 🙌

Just starting to teach myself to use i3wm, I have it installed alongside plasma and depending on the task I am doing depends which I log into.

Love this. keep it up

Just as I felt I had gathered enough information to make a Linux "IDE", you come out with a guide. Will be interesting to see how my own rookie thoughts compare and have a guide to follow when things inevitably turn out to be more difficult than expected. You mentioned tmux as well but I'm not sure I would use tmux with a tiling window manager. Maybe I'm wrong on that.

Great concept for a video. I would like to recommend sticking to customizing the functionality of i3/sway, whichever way this series goes (although sway might be better to avoid screentear on X). Adding steps for customizing aesthetics for sway, tmux... will be redundant in my opinion, it could throw those that came here looking for the i3 programming workflow off. of course, include a unified colorscheme like gruvbox for every program, otherwise it would look terrible. but other than that, i think sticking to core functionality and workflow would be the best direction for this series. This is just my 2 cents. Looking forward to see if I can recommend this series to my friends trying to start out on linux!

I also like Arch because I can easily install what I want and make sure it's up-to-date. But, I'm currently on EndeavourOS with hyprland since I really like it. Good video btw.

Interested to see this series, hope many find it useful and intriguing. I used to run i3 on arch btw, but lately I haven't bothered with all the configuring. I find that Gnome is quite ok if you utilize keyboard shortcuts like Win+Arrow keys to split and move windows effectively. It doesn't give the same granular control or speed but gets the job done. Then again I've also moved that responsibility to tmux, where I instantly jump between running processes, neovim editors and shells, which leads me to only need one workspace. Really the trouble with a tiling wm is the same as the trouble of neovim vs. IDEs. It doesn't come with anything but the bare essentials preinstalled, and expects you to do the heavy lifting in the beginning. But after it's configured to your liking everything's exactly where you want it to be and you fly between screens and applications like it's second nature.

Was planning of installing arch since the package managers for debian sucks, just what i needed sir. Thanks a lot. Pacman supremacy!!

I'm a happy pop os guy . cant wait to see the rest of this series

Literally got shivers in the intro

How do I get those terminals prompt headers?

I already use this workflow but I know this series will be fire 🔥

I use a mix of windows since 1996 and linux various distros (on and off, currently on) since 2000. What makes using multuple workspaces superior to windows alt-tab? Ive never managed to find what killer feature it has and why i should prefer it to the windows way. Somebosy please explain.

ive never been more excited

Please let us know where to find that wallpaper

im ready for part 1, 2, 3, etc. thanks

I just started experimenting with installing arch in a vm today lmao. will be following along and seeing what's what.

With tiling window manager you have to every time type name of every program you want to run? Like in ms-dos? What is good about that?

Excited for this one

I use Arch with KDE, zsh, tmux, neovim and vs code. Virtual desktops on KDE work very well.

Chris, I love your content and I'm so excited. I can't wait to dive into this journey!

Nice video mate but tell me pls how can I have the look of your terminal?

For those interested, there is an extension for gnome called Forge that is a very good tiling manager.

Between you and Teej I've dug myself deep down the nvim rabbit hole

very interested in this series. using ubuntu 23.10 mantic and got a laggy terminal problem without any solution. maybe i need to swap

Is it possible to install gnome and i3wm side by side and toggle which one to use as wm? Really want to make a smooth transition to see if I like it. Looking forward too this series!!

I've been using some form or another of Linux for the past ~15 years, but I never really left the Windows-y look & feel of Desktop Environments and GUI apps like VS Code. It's not lost on me the huge difference in productivity that being fluent with tiling wms and vim, for example, gives people. I think I'll whip up a new virtual machine and start following this series so I can finally graduate to full-on nerd lol

Always wanna try Linux, but for me I just can't get pass the stage where I constantly have to look for alternative app that were available on mac and windows.

Thanks man for everything and I mean it 🎉

this is going to be so exciting