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Correct title: The KDE experience

"I'm spending way too much time in the seetings". Welcome to KDE

Arch Experience ❌ KDE Experience ✅

"Pixelated icon bounces on cursor" I am sold

You can now officially say I use arch btw, but next is gentoo and LFS

You now legally need to tell everyone you know that you use Arch Linux.

Kowalski is now an official mascot of arch for me.

Arch? The final boss? Gentoo wants to throw hands and LFS is staring menacingly from the distance

Two big issues you've run into are 1) you didn't enable the multilib in the Pacman repository which is why you kept getting an error installing steam and other apps. 2) you installed the bare minimum Kde package which has a lot of things pre-installed such as spectical completely missing, the default Kde screen shot program. You're actually missing so many defaults because of this.

btw, if you freshly install any linux, it's best practice to update it (same as on windows). on arch, this is sudo pacman -Syu while on mint it's sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade this is probably why you didn't "find the packages", because the information that these packages exist needs to be downloaded with that command

0:43 ah yes.. my favorite package manager, sudo

I am sure that 99% of this video's viewers are Linux users

If you wanted more KDE Apps, installing kde-applications installs the full suite of apps

keep it up with the linux content, we truly love it. maybe you will build gentoo next.

this guy changes his OS every week. that's a top-tier content there

I've never been so entertained from a simple distro review

Great video, but please try and use official KDE applications, it hurts me. 😭 Also you can fix the Steam issue by enabling the Multilib repository. Many of the packages you installed can be found in normal repositories too.

KDE is literally most advanced desktop environment

The reason why you kept getting "MANUAL INTERVENTION REQUIRED" notification is most likely because you never did a system wide update. I assume the problem specifically would be solved by package database refreshing that would happen durring such an update. In simple terms your PC had an old reference to the AUR databases, meaning outdated, meaning "yay" was very confused when trying to call out to the out of date AUR repositories. The command for arch based distros is "sudo pacman -Syu". -S flag stands for "sync", it is the flag that actually allows you to grab, download, a package from AUR or any other repository or source. Not to be confused with lowercase -s flag which stands for "search". It can be used or example in "sudo pacman -Ss " to search for a package that contains a specific term in, for exmple, it's description. -y flag is the one that ensures that you're up to date with actual repositories you are trying to download a package from" -u flag is simply a system-wide update of all pacakages installed through pacman NOTE: The exact same syntax applies for "yay" but do also note that "pacman" and "yay" are different tools that need to be updated separtly.

"Amazed at how many things you can customize in linux" True but also you chose the correct DE

I think your KDE Plasma installation is incomplete. But for a new user, you're doing really good (and good mistakes :D) and your videos and humor are great. KDE Plasma default screenshot utility : spectacle KDE Plasma default PDF viewer : okular KDE Plasma default image viewer : Gwenview Personal opinion : avoid AUR when you can, use it only if required. For Gaming you have something like CachyOS which is an Archlinux easier to install and gaming oriented. (I don't game on Linux, I'm a console gamer)

Some points I'd like to highlight: - Screenshot apps don't work correctly in KDE 6 because KDE 6 is still in Beta (or Alpha?). I had the same problem without any display scaling. - You couldn't uninstall "calculator" because the package name was "gnome-calculator", but the display name was "Calculator". You can think of it the Windows way, kinda: "Steam" is the display name you see in the start menu, but the actual program behind it is "steam.exe". Same thing, different way way of doing it. - Your mouse cursor changed between apps because not all Linux apps are built the same. You're currently on KDE, but there are a bunch more desktops, like Cinnamon (the one you used with Linux Mint). Cinnamon is based on the GNOME desktop, and uses a GNOME engine behind the scenes to draw stuff on the screen. That engine also has its own (or uses some) theming engine, which only works for GNOME-based apps. KDE's and GNOME's theming engine(s) are practically incompatible with each other, which is why some apps might seem out of place and behave differently than "native KDE apps". In the case of the Calculator, the app just forced the GNOME theming onto your KDE desktop, so to speak. Not all GNOME apps force their themes onto KDE and the same goes vice versa. The Calculator app probably did because it was a Flatpak application, which is probably worth another exploration video of its own. But the point is that Flatpak apps come with the theme the developer (or Flatpak maintainer) wants the application to have. So if the Flatpak app is a GNOME-based one, it will force a GNOME theme onto it (libadwaita), if it's a KDE app, it will force a KDE theme onto it. The whole theming thing is a discussion that has been going on for ages now. GNOME says "there's only one theme 'ecosystem' and that's libadwaita". KDE says "I don't care which app uses which theme, I'll just draw whatever the user set and whatever the application allows". Other desktops mainly go the KDE way, GNOME is kind of an outlier in this regard. What GNOME does makes sense if you take a step back and reiterate over your experience with the Calculator app, for example. The way the GNOME theme is forced means "all apps look and behave the same" (at least that's the goal). Compare that to Windows and its 10 different ways of theming. You have "legacy/classic" themes (Windows 95 through 2000), "Aero" themes (Windows Vista/7/8) and "UWP" themes (starting from Windows 10). The good thing is that Microsoft wants to innovate and use their new stuff. The bad thing is, they can't completely change the UI of Windows because that would basically drive all sysadmins of all companies in the industry insane. This is why Windows has like 100 themes built into it and every application looks different, but at the same time legacy applications like the Control Panel still have to remain to please the industry so to speak. Granted, the state Windows currently is in is worse than if they just never listened to anybody in the industry and forced UWP onto everything - but then again, nobody would update Windows (Servers) anymore and would eventually move away from it. GNOME does it much better in my opinion, in this regard. But GNOME doesn't do users any favors because Linux users want to customize their desktop, and GNOME limits this freedom a whole lot. With Arch and KDE you've basically opened the door to basically the most freedom you can get with Linux as an ecosystem. That's a very good thing, but it can really feel weird to new users who don't understand the different desktops, theming engines/ecosystems, Flatpaks, and whatever else have you.

33:30 Hope now you appreciate the Apply functionality 😆

We need the HYPRLAND experience next

If you forget to use sudo you can always use the command "sudo !!". The "!" invokes your bash history of which you could specify a number such as "!42" and it will use the command at line 42 in your history. The second ! will use your last command run. Very useful and I find myself using quite regularly.

Can't wait for the Gentoo video

ngl, it's kinda cute to see the next generation find all the compositing effects like wobbly windows that have been a thing for as long as I can remember and at least as long as I've been using linux professionally(which is.. a long time.. It's like almost 2 decades and now I feel old)

When the task is to explore settings quickly but your desktop environment is KDE: Impossible!

GREAT content man. Love your sense of humor and determination to troubleshoot issues. Had me DYING with the damn banana cursor and I look forward to future videos!

All jokes aside, this is one of the most informative videos regarding kde plasma I've seen so far, normally people just do the basics without the exploration and it sucks ! Even though I've been using kde for almost a year now, I actually learned something that'll change the way I use my desktop. After I've seen this, I feel like I hate myself for not exploring what plasma have to offer. You've just earned another sub ! Hope many more people see this vid, no matter whether they are Linux beginners or more advanced users, there's always more to learn !

Bog is my favourite time of the day.

This fella is somehow a breath of fresh air for me. I've watched all the videos in their whole Linux saga, and they're all like half-an-hour long videos and yet.. I didn't skip one bit.. that's new.. How do you do this?! Excited for more :3

FYI for anyone looking to get into Arch with KDE Plasma like this, you can skip the rough install if that's not your thing by just installing EndeavourOS. If you use the BTRFS file system and install snapper, your system will be almost bulletproof.

Love your vids, laughed so much. These are best system reviews videos you can find. Subbed and liked!

21:15 you installed a calculator package that is meant for gnome package managers are agnostic when it comes to software it doesnt care what desktop enviroment you use so keep in mind you install stuff specific to KDE and not gnome or vice versa on gnome a way to know which application is for what a general hint would be: KDE is made on the Qte framework Gnome is made on the Gtk framework so pick Qte specific applications on kde, you can install GTK instead but as you saw you had dependancies issues installing mirage because you arent on gnome where most of those dependancies are on to top it off you get the kinds of visual inconsistencies like the calculator application

Arch Linux is that Miniboss before the main boss. The true main boss is Gentoo.

Actually is the KDE experience, you can do the same on Fedora KDE, Debian KDE, NixOS KDE, Void KDE, Gentoo KDE. If you use Arch with KDE recommend EndeavorOS or Garuda KDE lote, it's well configured and has not bloatware. Out of Arch I will use Fedora or Debian.

love it bro! thanks

this guy managed to understand how cube works in seconds while it took hours for brodie

Oh nice, it's part 2 Keep it up!

The reason your sensitivity changes based on the resolution you set is because mouse sensitivity is measured in dots per inch (I call it pixels per inch) so if you are at 800 dpi every inch you move your mouse your mouse cursor will move 800 pixels. That means if you have a lower resolution, the cursor will move a larger percentage of the screen if you move your mouse the same distance both times.

I really liked your narrative style, it's very cute and funny

I really enjoy your OS review content and have become addicted to it recently. trying to add the following techniques: 1. File transfer from PC to hard disk, hard disk to PC, and PC to mobile, 2. OS boot speed improvement, and 3. OS disk occupied space. Thank you!

your video inspired me to install arch linux, and i thank you for that

Steam now has built in game recording as of today with the latest client beta. And it works beautifully on Linux, even Steam Deck.

This is SO good information when developing a user experience. It is basically user testing on steroids. I assume that KDE doesn't have the resources to do this kind of testing (it doesn't feel like it, at least), so this is amazing material!

These Linux videos start to looks so interesting and funny

The window manager experience next?

Might want to make a note or something that this is about the experience of _using_ the OS and rather than that of Installing it. I was completely convinced this was a reupload for view harvesting at first, especially given both videos have the same length and very similar intros.

this has been an amazing video! dig it a lot

The next step is to include "i use arch btw" in every sentence you say and you've become a true arch user

Trust me if Arch is the hardest you cannot describe LFS :)

You didn't need to install a separate image viewer and screenshot tool, KDE Plasma already has those.

This was hands down the best AD for KDE and Arch

This channel is expanding! 🎉🎉🎉

for KDE I'd recommend using spectacle instead of flameshot for screenshots. thats just my preference though, flameshot is pretty good too and its what I'm using at the moment

Ha! Install Gentoo!

Glad you enjoyed KDE Plasma its come a long way

this was hilarious, well made!😂

lowkey wanna give linux a try after those three videos, congrats sir also, this vid got posted as i was watching the other two lol

Hey. Atleast he said "One of the hardest operating systems" and not "THE hardest operating systems".

great video! havent watched it yet but it looks cool

I love how you're so amazed by the desktop effects like wobbly windows etc. which were available all the way back in 2006/2007 via Compiz xDD

Ok so you beat the Arch challenge... NixOS next?

As a long term Gnome user who jumped to WMs without trying KDE, now I see what's the hype is about. Currently at 17 mins marks of a 34min video and bro is still exploring KDE Settings. Great job KDE team.

Already excited for gentoo series

You know, I had forgotten about how many cool features Plasma has. I've been using it almost exclusively for 5 years.

Nice video again! Notes and tips (I'll probably be less useful this time because I don't use KDE, display scaling, or play that game you do): 1. **KDE Settings:** KDE's settings does give you the options to configure lots of stuff, but it will only work on KDE apps (that integrate the libraries and stuff that link it in to the KDE settings and other KDE system features). This is why you cannot rebind Firefox keys in the KDE settings menu--it isn't developed by KDE (so it isn't built to integrate with it). Ultimately it depends on the program you are using how or if you can bind the shortcuts. Programs that support/are made for Linux are generally better in this regard because the community tends to care more about it. In general programs (if they can be set) will be setup through a program and/or a config file that you can edit to make it work how you want. 2. Yeah the middle click thing is because there are multiple clipboard selections. The normal clipboard one you access with copy and paste and one called primary selection. It can be nice sometimes and some programs can use it to automatically do things when you select text instead of needing to copy and paste stuff. Pretty niche though so not many people actually know about/use it. 3. The weird purple line under the task bar is probably a compositing artifact. I don't use it so don't know what exactly you might try to fix it but you can probably search or report it as a bug and someone can probably help you. 4. Steam was not there in pacman because it is in a different repository that is disabled by default called multilib (it mentions this on the Arch wiki page you were on). Instructions for enabling it can also be found there. As a side note the multlib repository is basically just for 32bit versions of software and some programs like Wine and Steam that have stuff requiring/running them. I think it is disabled by default because there might be 32 and 64 bit versions of some software so they want to make it harder to accidentally install the 32 bit version when you are on a 64 bit computer (just a guess). 5. **Uninstalling and how pacman works** I generally use -Rs to uninstall stuff. With VLC it was failing because VLC is used (is a dependency for) something else on the system. Fortunately for many users pacman will (unless you really force things) not run transactions (i.e. installs or uninstalls) that will leave something on your system broken because they are missing a (known) required dependency. ** In your case the message was saying it can't remove VLC because 'VLC' is listed as a required dependency of phonon-qt6-vlc (or something didn't read it lol). It won't remove VLC because phonon-qt6-vlc is still installed and needs VLC to work. To get VLC to uninstall, you should generally just list both the thing you are trying to uninstall and any of the things that it is saying it will break (the things that depend on it).** E.g. if you are trying to uninstall package a and it says you can't because a is a required dependency of package b, then just do `pacman -Rs a b` so they are removed in the same transaction. If you really know what you are doing there are ways to make it cascade uninstall all the things that depend on anything you tell it to uninstall, but this could easily mess things up badly if you try it on the wrong thing so it is generally safer to avoid it. 6. **Calculator not showing up--pacman continued**: the display name of a program--especially the generic one like Calculator, Web Browser, or File Manager (and sometimes even the name of an executable)--is not necessarily the same as the package name. In your case I think it is likely kcalc or kalc (remember that there are lots of calculators in the repository and they all need to have unique names so they can't all be 'calculator'). **How to figure out a package name using pacman** You could figure it out in lots of ways and some times it may be hard especially with really big wierd pacakages, but most of the time you can figure it out by searching the installed applications. Just use `pacman -Qs ` or in your specific case `pacman -Qs calc` or something and it searches for programs with calc (case insensitive) in both the name or description and you would be able to see what the name of the calculator you have installed is. Btw the mnemonic for that command is Q[uery installed packages)] s[earch]. While we are here -Qi (info) is another useful one that gives the detials of a specific package instead of searching. The i and s options work on the -S version too just searching in all the apps in the repositories instead of just the ones on your computer. You can always look up more options and stuff in the man page or on the Wiki. 7. **Making your life in the shell easy by using fish as your shell** the command line might be hard to learn and remember as you are getting started. I suggest you try installing fish and setting it as the shell run in your terminal (should be in the settings for the default one or can be set in a config file for alacritty. For basic stuff it is really great because you get nice tab completions by default for most common programs that normally come with little descriptions of what they mean/do. So you can for instance type `pacman -` and then press tab and it will show you all the options (both the long and short versions) and what they do. See their website (fishshell.com) for more info and a very good manual (which can also be accessed in the browser directly from the shell when you use the `help` command. Also, I bet you would like the fish_config command which opens a special (locally hosted don't worry lol) web interface that lets you customize the prompt and other stuff very easily with a GUI. It is really very nice and I highly recommend it. Most of the stuff that works in bash or zsh works in fish, but some things that have kinda odd syntax in those (because of compatibility). It is really just better in most ways for interactive use and scripts that you don't need to be able to run on any random computer. 8. tessdata is a thing for tesseract which is an OCR (optical character recognition) thing. Choosing a provider on that thing was just selecting what languages you want the OCR for. It is used by mupdf (and other things) to let you copy text from PDF's when they are just images (without the text data embedded as well). 9. When you look for applications to do basic tasks a nice source is the Arch Wiki (yes of course it is lol). wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications In your case with an image viewer, you would go to the multimedia category and into Image viewers, in the category of graphical ones (as opposed to terminal or frame buffer ones) and you would have a whole list of them with the package name, a short description, and links to the website if you wanna see what it looks like before installing it. **I would generally recommend only using the AUR when you don't have any good options in the normal repos** because it is more of a hassle and as you saw can have mixed results if you are just trying all sorts of random stuff. Use it when you already know you want a specific package and it is not available in other ways. Also you can use `-Ss` (in pacman or yay) to search for things like image viewers directly. 10. Btw you are missing many default KDE apps. A lot more things would have been possible out of the box if you installed the kde-applications group (pacman -S kde-applications). Note there are tons of apps for all sorts of stuff in here so if you don't want everything, you can just install specific ones or sub-groups like kde-utilities or kde-graphics. 11. Quick AUR tips: the -git versions are generally compiled on your machine directly from the current version on the repo. The bin ones are precompiled versions (normally what I would try first unless I have a reason to compile it) if it doesn't have -git or -bin it can be either. The diff option shows changes between the current version you have installed and the version you are installing. Again try the normal repos first. 12. AUR manual intervention: I don't have much time and can't really read the logs so I can't say super confidently, but the divinci resolve one has an error with the mv command not being able to access a file in the .cache dir maybe a permission problem or something. Also it could just be a broken package so you would definitely need to trouble shoot a bit to figure out what is going on. I don't think I have ever had that problem lol. 13. Also just preemptive tip, remember to update (pacman -Syu) often it will prevent lots of problems. (Note that AUR stuff needs to be updated seperately). I can't go into all the stuff about the AUR now but really try to only use it when necessary (at least until you are a bit more experienced) because it can make things more complicated easily. Hope these are helpful.

For screenshots, you just had to press Print Screen. Plasma already has a screenshot app. The reason your cursor is different is because the app you were running was a Gnome app, which has minor compatibility issues with the cursor

I LOVE how easy it is to check and customize keyboard shortcuts in KDE; it's so useful. And I LOOOVE the way kwrite marks what is and isn't saved, too; it's a weird bonus for a Simple Editor to have but it's so unobtrusive, compared to like, notepad++ having a million settings that I don't want to use and none that I do... so nice

Arch Linux with KDE Plasma is the ultimate Swiss army knife of computing! I have been using them exclusively on all of my computers for over a decade now, because so far just nothing compares or comes close. You showed me nothing new, and yet I loved every minute of it! Your narration style, especilly your sense of humor and the sound effects are well woth watching. Oh, and you could have used EndeavourOS to install Arch with one of many desktops but via a great installer. It comes with a selection of basic apps, and once installed which is wicked quick, you have all of the harder work behind you the easy way. One more thing: A lot of what you said was great about Linux is Plasma specific and in few if any other DE's, and why it's such a freaking great Desktop Environment. The only thing Gnome is good for is kicking out of the flower bed, down the driveway, onto the street, and watching cars run it over!

The KDE Plasma experience

tip: use -Syu not -S and screenshot should be installed by default & bound to print screen button also installing the whole kde suite would've given you all the apps you'd have needed

desktop environments arent the only visual environments out there. if you want to get your hands dirty and configure stuff, use an actual window manager like openbox, dwm, or some tiling window managers like i3 or dwm. you can acess these inside sddm (your login manager, the thing you use to login.

OMG I AM WAITING FOR THISSSSSSS

Im watching and crying, seeing how he mixes GTK with QT

Has this video been reposted?

This feels more like the KDE experience than the Arch experience x) But it's always very nice to see some feedback and experience from someone trying it for the first time!

this is such a cool video

first keep it up more linux subbed now try gentoo haha windows key is called super key

Great content! I now know what it feels like to use KDE Plasma no regrets feelsgoodman! So much customization I like it!

Great video

wow that was really cool

This video is a good metaphor for the Linux experience of everyone I know who has tried to use Linux: there's hours of fun to be had messing around with settings, but ultimately, nothing of substance actually gets done.

You are amazing! I laughed a lot and even though I don´t use KDE, learned a couple of things. Thanks. Boing! 😀

- Scaling works way better because unlike Linux Mint you're likely in Wayland this time - unlike what Linux Mint uses, scaling is basically a standard thing now in Wayland-using environments. - You're *2 releases late* to trying 'Oxygen Light' - it was called Air, and was yeeted in KDE Plasma 6.0 (honestly though, Air was mid). *- Manual intervention is required*

With that many different settings, the apply button can be a godsend

wait ... "APPLY" !! but seriously, best "walkthrough" ever made, no joke!

Amazing he is doing this

Here some medals to the designers and developers maintaining that monster of settings, use cases, thousands of customization combinations 🏅🏅🏅🏅

About 8:10: The desktops are all in one line, because you can have multiple rows of virtual desktops in Plasma. In the settings for virtual desktops on the top right, you can set how many rows you want, so you can have one virtual desktop below/above another.

Hey! cool video! As a next one, you could try a tiling WM like hyprland! Or maybe even NixOS, i feel like it's the best as long as you have the storage.

This got me really excited about the desktop environment. Only to remind me why I still use windows.

oh man u are just make me memorize the time i played with all the customization in win98 SE

FOR Some Reason, Your Videos Has Increased By Span Time From 30 Seconds To 34 Minutes And 29 Seconds. Good Job Mate! We Have Good Engaging KZfaqrs. God Bless You Brother.

I only have limited experience with Linux and PlasmaKDE, and as much of a headache Linux is sometimes, it's also suuuuper mind blowing what can be done with it. It was really fun to explore all the settings and seeing what each one would do.

16 minutes in and it already feels so much like windows, I might even want to switch if it keeps up being this promising

Hey I was a Arch user who really knows everything to make things right for my Pentium Desktop PC!

Very interesting video!