I think Arch itself is amazing, but the number of Arch-based distros that were created (with quite a few being also awesome) is a true testament to how super amazing it is
I've been using Ar....EndeavourOS Gnome for almost a year now and love it. Used to use PopOS/Solus, but being on an Arch-based distro I literally don't need anything else. The only thing I will say is if Arch no longer existed, I'd probably use Fedora in that case. But thankfully Arch isn't going anywhere, so I can compute happily for years to come!
5:57 " _pacman didn't have dependency support at that time_ " Fun fact: Slackware Linux is over 28 years old, and its package manager *still* doesn't have dependency support. (However, it appears that there are some unofficial/3rd-party projects that add dependency-tracking to it, such as the 3rd-party "slpkg" package manager project that's hosted on GitLab, and various package-repositories containing packages compatible with it... for example, slpkg's GitLab website has links to 15 of these package-repositories.) Also, to answer the question at the 11:18 point in the video: as of this writing, it's been roughly 14.5 years since I first used Arch Linux, with an overall total of 10.5 years of use as my "daily driver". (I mainly used Kubuntu instead during those additional 4 years.)
Love Arch. Manjaro was my first distro in 2020, and after about a month I gave vanilla Arch a shot. After another few months I switched to Gentoo and occasionally I switch back and forth, but I've mostly stayed on Gentoo. Arch will always be solid.
@@DevAngelo Portage. Its more hands-on than most other package managers, but still more organized than just manually installing your packages. You can configure individual packages with different use flags, or even install testing versions of only certain packages (I like to have stable user packages with testing versions of the kernel)
I started my Arch journey with Endeavour OS and learnt a lot about Arch and then finally I did my first install using Arch wiki and Ermanno TH-cam video last week. I can’t appreciate enough to all those people at EOS for having a great community and inspiring new users.
hardcore Debian only since 2002 with a dual boot partition for experimenting with other distros until about 2009 when I started using a vm for that purpose. I have used arch on and off in that time, but for whatever reason, I always come back to Debian. Apt is just seared into my brain . Over the years have tried Linux from scratch, arch, basically every Debian based distro that is common, Slackware, damn small Linux, and a few others- but yeah
I have the inverse going on (I use arch btw). Short flags for the package manager causes a sort of "skill curve" but once I got passed that it feels so satisfying to use it from my experience.
Never been a fan of apt. Always too overly broad in it's search results and makes it infuriating to find the exact package name I need. That being said debian and it's derivatives are not bad, just that one thing bugs me a lot about them.
This is a very interesting video!! I’ve been using Debian for a little over 2 years. Also here’s an interesting fact: there is a Linux distribution called CRUX which inspired the Arch Linux creator to make Arch! Sadly, CRUX isn’t that popular anymore.
switched from windows to manjaro on my main pc about 3 months ago now, and for the most part I was very happy. At the same time I decided to try and install arch on another pc I was using, which went very smoothly and was much easier than I expected. Later on I was experiencing some weird bugs on my main rig (could have also been user error), so instead of trying to fix or reinstall, I just said f it and ran arch on it too. I've never been happier tbh, and really enjoy tinkering and learning. Would definitely recommend, and suggest to take the plunge if you have been thinking about it
I had previus wxperience with some ubuntu server and I though about the brilliant idea to hop from windows to arch. Thanks to the wiki and some research I set it up in a round a week, and now I have learned a lot.
Around 10 years ago, I moved from Ubuntu to ArchBang. At that time Ubuntu had recently moved to Unity which I really didn't like and ArchBang's Openbox desktop was quite sexy. I eventually installed vanilla Arch and used it for many years. These days I am mostly using NixOS and sometimes Alpine, but I still have fond memories of Arch.
Mint just works for me, started with Mint, then distro hopped to Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro, then installed Vanilla Arch but didn't setup a desktop environment, and didn't want to go through setting it up since I was like 1 month into Linux use at that time, so I went back to Mint. I've been using Linux for 3 years now and I'm probably going to try vanilla Arch again with a desktop since I have a little more knowledge now.
Been a Debian user forever. I did manage to install Arch in a VM. Took me my third try, but got it stable and working correctly. I can install Arch on real hardware at anytime. But I actually enjoy using Debian Stable. I have old packages, but they work like a charm. I do know how to build from source with no problems. So I can upgrade a few old packages when need to. But I mainly stick will the Stable repositories. You can call me crazy. I settle on MX-21 Xfce, it's prefect and great developers and great documentation and love all those MX tools.
Used it for right around 2 years now, it was the only one that properly utilized my graphics at the time and I even recompiled the kernel to get it to run on the new pc I built last year. Never had it break even once
I actually have been using Arch for basically 6 months now. And I'm really loving it. Before I used Arch, I was just distrohopping from distro to distro. But then I decided, "you know what? I should give Arch a try." And boy I didn't regret it. I used to be a Ubuntu user (I started using Linux 8 months ago). And now I use Arch (btw) with the BSPWM window manager. And I will never move to another distro ever again. (Unless I decide to install Gentoo Linux.) Happy 20th anniversary Arch Linux!
One day I came back from school and my father has install on my desktop Ubuntu 08.04 alongside Windows XP. I liked the idea of free software and I was booting Windows only for games. I was a Ubuntu user until version 14.04 LTS (2015) when a friend at university saw my laptop with custom linux kernel, PPAs and compiled programs, talked me about Arch Linux. I made a VM with Arch, so I can test the installation, bought a SSD and I give it a go. Still using the same installation on the same laptop, no more crashes, no more distro upgrades, no more old programs, just -Syu. Ever since all my computers are running Arch Linux, even my sisters laptop has dual boot with Arch. I learned so much from Arch Linux, thank you all for the documentation and the great distro!
Switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu 14.04 back in 2014 (I had an IBM ThinkPad z61t from 2001 with half a gig of RAM at the time), continued using Ubuntu across the various machines I've owned since then up to the 20.04 release, but decided to upgrade from 18.04 to Arch Linux. I've never looked back. I'm still using Ubuntu server 18.04 on my server machine because rolling release isn't a great idea for a server, but I can't see myself ever switching back from Arch on my main desktop machine
It's strange to me, with the amount of work and hassle that we used to have to go through in order to install and configure a usable Linux system, that people are still doing it today. I can't believe how much time I wasted with distros like Gentoo and Slackware, inevitably having to install over them with Mandrake in order to get a halfway decent desktop experience.
I had to go look on the forums to see how long ago I joined. I didn't use it the whole time. There were years where I did not run Linux at all. Sometimes, work and real life gets in the way. There were times where I ran openSUSE, which was my first. I still love them both. Registered: 2007-09-23
I started my linux desktop journey about 2.5 years ago with arch, after having experience with linux through working on research software for HPC systems. Back then my personal computer was a mac and I was basically just using the terminal and browser on there, customizing as much of my work flow as possible. I was really annoyed by how apple makes things not just fool proof, but they also prevent people with significant IT knowledge from controlling their system. So arch was the natural move for me and It's been an awesome experience so far! The hardest part about moving to arch was exporting my passwords out of apple key chain. When I exported my passwords you had to export every password individually and confirm it with your user password. Also you couldn't write a script that interacts with the GUI to automate it. Because you can only use applescript to interact with the GUI!!!! So I had to learn applescript and write custom code just to export my stupid passwords... Thanks apple for making everything so damn difficult for no reason other than forcing people to stick with your products!
After being dissatisfied with Ubuntu 10.10, I tried playing around with Gentoo, but the compilation time was hell on my P4 and Atom machines. I found the Arch Beginners Guide, which taught me so much about the Linux framework, partitioning, package management, and building my own GUI with openbox. No other distro has been as informative for me, even though I moved to Manjaro for easier Optimus usage. I miss the Beginners Guide.
On my laptop(s) 4-7 years and desktop 3-4 years. I changed disks and reinstalled a few times but also kept track of what to install.. Been 99% stable for me. Laptop 100& stable btw.
Hmm, I started with Mandrake Linux in the early 2000s, used Fedora Core for a while before RH moved it to just Fedora. Then Ubuntu for about 8 years and finally landed on Arch in 2015. Been happily using it across all my systems with the exception of a handful of servers ever since.
I've been sucked into the Arch hole by the youtube algorithm feeding me DT's videos these past few weeks, and now yours. I'm an Ubuntu normie (have daily driven it for half a decade at this point), but I really, really want to hop over to give Arch a try. However, I am a bit too afraid of installing Arch on my home PC (all those things that I have gotten to work but don't remember how), so it'll have to wait until I get a new laptop or something.
been using Linux for 1.5 yrs, started with elementaryOS and switched to Fedora about 2 months ago, i'm loving it but i can't help my curiosity about Arch, might give it a try at some point
My journey into Arch is probably pretty funny. I started out trying Ubuntu, but I wanted newer packages than the release publicly offered, so I kept adding PPAs to Ubuntu. It would work for a while, then something would break, and I'd forget about Linux and use my Windows boot. (I have always done dual-boot). Then, I tried Linux Mint thinking it was a little more polished than base Ubuntu, and while my experience was better, I almost felt like it had too many features. After that, I installed Arch Linux, took my time, and probably have always installed more packages than I actually need, but for my mix of work and gaming, it has been my go to ever since due to recent packages being quickly available and it has been a very stable experience for me! Arch also forced me to become more comfortable with Linux commands, which I appreciate even when guis are available.
I used to run Manjaro and I now run Arch. I've been on Arch for the past three years. Surprisingly, Arch is much more stable than Manjaro. Arch + KDE is an amazing combo.
I've been using desktop linux for almost a year now, started off on pop os > ubuntu > elementary > pop os > manjaro (and a lot of other distro for a very short time cause i don't like them, like deepin, vanilla debian, kubuntu of that time, fedora etc) in a single month, and then I tried Arch and OpenSUSE TW, both on Btrfs, and has been my daily driver thereafter. Arch for everyday uses, and TW for occasional strolling and backup if anything goes wrong on Arch and i don't have the time to fix it. to be fair, breakage on arch is extremely rare in my use case (programming, college, gaming, multimedia). but i like to experiment with a lot of packages and configurations. that it sometimes bricks my system until i rollback with Btrfs.
The first time i installed Arch was a few years ago, but there was some sort of error on my part that borked the network manager. I had Arch exclusively as a ttyl lol Then i found manjaro and used that for a while. Then i tried vanilla Arch again a lil less than a year ago, but ended up breaking it. I cant remember what i did, but something happened. Went back to manjaro, but hated it. Then i hopped over to Endeavour a few weeks ago, and ive been happy with that since. Maybe i'll try out the Arch install script in a vm or something.
I've used Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Mint for a long time. Just recently tried out Archlabs but I'm having some issues with pacman. Want to move to Arch or Arch based distros but we will see.
I've used all sorts of linux distro's by now, currently got a Win10 / Manjaro dual boot system. Only reason why I went for manjaro is that I wanted a arch based dual that was easy to setup alongside a different OS. (I know I could have went for a manual arch install, I was just to lazy to do so)
Hmmmm... I guess I have been in the Arch camp for 5-6 years I suppose? I do remember that the moment I had moved to my current house, it didn't take many months before my 10.04 box got annoying and I started upgrading it. Not wanting to deal with doing a flush and resetup every time and have all that setup work, I decided on a rolling release distro. And it became Arch and that box has stayed Arch ever since, and no more update pains to deal with. Checking back on it, it does seem like it is more than 6 years now, as it was at the end of 2015 based on the end of 10.04 LTS date...
I use Garuda Linux on the laptop and the desktop. I like it very much. I know how to install arch Linux but Garuda has like 90% of my settings in like 3 clicks
I started (as most of us) with Ubuntu in 2011. Moved to Mint, Manjaro and now vanilla Arch. I tried Debian, but, for some reason my harware had incompatibilities I was too lazy to solve (a Dell laptop with a 4th gen i7). Arch for me has been flawless. Moreover, I can't go back to Debian based distros for one simple reason. AUR has spoiled me. Almost everything I need is in there. No need to get annoyed adding and removing PPAs, etc. Arch is the best for me and my workflow...
Can't remember, but looks like I've been using arch for almost ten years now. Still remember time when it went from SysVInit to systemd. And pretty sure, that, at least, my first installation of arch was done with fancy installer with menus and stuff...
Guess the OS that I am running while watching this video. :P Thanks for your video! I was even not fully aware of the 20 years age of the distro. Nice to learn about some history of it here. I think I am also crazy enough to try that 0.1 version from github. I am kinda curious how Qemu will run it, or whether it fails completely. :P
I've used it since a year before the systemd switch? Then the switch happened an hosed my system and distro hopped for awhile and been off and on for the past 5 or so years. On my main systems, I've always had in in a VM though. And recently, I just installed Arch32 on my OLD computer.
well, around 2014-2016 when Ubuntu kill it self, i started to search for a new home, so around 2017-2018, i try Arch and it was more stable then any other Distro, because of the new packages, there was less of the backport bugs that make the Static distros like Ubuntu and Fedora so unstable, and if there is a problem, it is 1 command to rollback to the previous version. i dont look back any more, well unless i need to help a friend on Ubuntu, but many of the problems is the same thing, Snapd is broken, and the best fix for this is to install POP_OS!, and tell them to use flatpak.
been using arch since ... idk around 2014/2015 ish i had been a ubuntu user for years (like ... 2009?) but felt like i could handle a "grownup's version" of linux since i was doing so many modifications anyways
I am pritty sure arch had an ncurses installer at some point. Used arch since then and the pre systemd days . As much as i would love to mess with gentoo arch IMO is the best distro. Not even so much arch itself but the arch family or more accurately the pacman family are just so clean and so good.
I've used Arch Linux on and off since about 2002. Although nowadays I prefer the installer from something like arcolinux or manjaro. (yes, I am lazy ;-)
Been an Arch user for almost 6 months now and I haven't returned back to Windows. Doing programming is easy here on Linux where you don't need to configure much unlike on Windows setting the "PATH". But one thing that surprised me is that Arch Linux came two months later after I was born.
I have messed with arch or arch derivates on and off for probably 5-6 years now, usually just a "hey let me see if I can install this" type of thing, then I was using Manjaro for a while(the bad experiences with it had soured me on arch for a while until I learned that Manjaro and their flawed repo situation was the problem not arch), but Permanently moved over a year or so ago. Before That I was mostly on buntu derivatives or Debian derivates since like 07 but then went to fedora for about a year or 2 before deciding to come to Arch full time. Now I am instantly annoyed when using a deb/buntu type distro because if a package is not in the main repos you have to install it using a PPA, flatpak, AppImage, or if all else fails snap. The AUR has spoiled me.
Started on Ubuntu and casually move through debian, manjaro, and now finally arch. Arch >>> anything else tbh. It works near flawlessly in terms of stability (given u treat it right) and software support.
On my main machine I run debian, and on my laptop i use Arch, but I have to say, there is literaly no difference in the day to day usage(programming and stuff)
I tried Arch once, and i hated it. Coming from gentoo, arch is bloated, custom package building is a fucking pain in the ass, changing compile time features gets out of the hand very fast, because changing PKGBUILD files is just not a good way to do it. I'm sticking with me beloved Gentoo.
I switched from Windows to Arch Linux roughly a month after Windows 10 was announced. I had a Windows 8.1 install running that I wasn't *too* dissatisfied with, but I saw the writing on the wall. The reason for why Arch? Everyone on r/unixp*rn was using it, so I thought there must be something to Arch that makes it popular 😂 The transition to Arch from Windows took like a month or so but I haven't looked back since. I was luckily in a phase where I wasn't gaming all that much when I switched, and at the time when my interest in gaming came back, DXVK was brand new and starting to be usable. I think all in all my timing was super lucky in all regards
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I think Arch itself is amazing, but the number of Arch-based distros that were created (with quite a few being also awesome) is a true testament to how super amazing it is
I've been using Ar....EndeavourOS Gnome for almost a year now and love it. Used to use PopOS/Solus, but being on an Arch-based distro I literally don't need anything else. The only thing I will say is if Arch no longer existed, I'd probably use Fedora in that case. But thankfully Arch isn't going anywhere, so I can compute happily for years to come!
endeavorOS is arch
fight me
@@danielyrovas yes but you don't have Arch btw rights
@@rcht958 what if you're using EndeavorOS on your PC, but have installed plain arch in a VM before?
@@Aras14 not unless you use your arch vm
@@rcht958 What if you install Endeavour, but without Endeavour theming?
I love how older Linux software had happy Tux, same with Arch.
5:57 " _pacman didn't have dependency support at that time_ "
Fun fact: Slackware Linux is over 28 years old, and its package manager *still* doesn't have dependency support.
(However, it appears that there are some unofficial/3rd-party projects that add dependency-tracking to it, such as the 3rd-party "slpkg" package manager project that's hosted on GitLab, and various package-repositories containing packages compatible with it... for example, slpkg's GitLab website has links to 15 of these package-repositories.)
Also, to answer the question at the 11:18 point in the video: as of this writing, it's been roughly 14.5 years since I first used Arch Linux, with an overall total of 10.5 years of use as my "daily driver". (I mainly used Kubuntu instead during those additional 4 years.)
Love Arch. Manjaro was my first distro in 2020, and after about a month I gave vanilla Arch a shot. After another few months I switched to Gentoo and occasionally I switch back and forth, but I've mostly stayed on Gentoo. Arch will always be solid.
What does gentoo have that you prefer over arch?
@@DevAngelo Portage. Its more hands-on than most other package managers, but still more organized than just manually installing your packages. You can configure individual packages with different use flags, or even install testing versions of only certain packages (I like to have stable user packages with testing versions of the kernel)
Started with Peppermint, now rocking a thinkpad running Arch for 4 years stratight.
I started my Arch journey with Endeavour OS and learnt a lot about Arch and then finally I did my first install using Arch wiki and Ermanno TH-cam video last week.
I can’t appreciate enough to all those people at EOS for having a great community and inspiring new users.
hardcore Debian only since 2002 with a dual boot partition for experimenting with other distros until about 2009 when I started using a vm for that purpose. I have used arch on and off in that time, but for whatever reason, I always come back to Debian. Apt is just seared into my brain . Over the years have tried Linux from scratch, arch, basically every Debian based distro that is common, Slackware, damn small Linux, and a few others- but yeah
I have the inverse going on (I use arch btw). Short flags for the package manager causes a sort of "skill curve" but once I got passed that it feels so satisfying to use it from my experience.
Please make a few vids!
Never been a fan of apt. Always too overly broad in it's search results and makes it infuriating to find the exact package name I need. That being said debian and it's derivatives are not bad, just that one thing bugs me a lot about them.
I just love how pacman works. Arch is also my favorite distro of choice. 🐧
This is a very interesting video!! I’ve been using Debian for a little over 2 years. Also here’s an interesting fact: there is a Linux distribution called CRUX which inspired the Arch Linux creator to make Arch! Sadly, CRUX isn’t that popular anymore.
switched from windows to manjaro on my main pc about 3 months ago now, and for the most part I was very happy. At the same time I decided to try and install arch on another pc I was using, which went very smoothly and was much easier than I expected. Later on I was experiencing some weird bugs on my main rig (could have also been user error), so instead of trying to fix or reinstall, I just said f it and ran arch on it too. I've never been happier tbh, and really enjoy tinkering and learning. Would definitely recommend, and suggest to take the plunge if you have been thinking about it
I too switched from windows to Manjaro about 5 months ago. I will be trying Arch whenever I get another PC.
I had previus wxperience with some ubuntu server and I though about the brilliant idea to hop from windows to arch. Thanks to the wiki and some research I set it up in a round a week, and now I have learned a lot.
Around 10 years ago, I moved from Ubuntu to ArchBang. At that time Ubuntu had recently moved to Unity which I really didn't like and ArchBang's Openbox desktop was quite sexy. I eventually installed vanilla Arch and used it for many years.
These days I am mostly using NixOS and sometimes Alpine, but I still have fond memories of Arch.
I've been using it since December/2021. So far, I'm enjoying it a lot.
6 months of Linux & Foss = 1st month manjaro + 5 months of pure Arch
The best thing to happen to me in 2021
Mint just works for me, started with Mint, then distro hopped to Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro, then installed Vanilla Arch but didn't setup a desktop environment, and didn't want to go through setting it up since I was like 1 month into Linux use at that time, so I went back to Mint. I've been using Linux for 3 years now and I'm probably going to try vanilla Arch again with a desktop since I have a little more knowledge now.
Been a Debian user forever. I did manage to install Arch in a VM. Took me my third try, but got it stable and working correctly. I can install Arch on real hardware at anytime. But I actually enjoy using Debian Stable. I have old packages, but they work like a charm. I do know how to build from source with no problems. So I can upgrade a few old packages when need to. But I mainly stick will the Stable repositories. You can call me crazy. I settle on MX-21 Xfce, it's prefect and great developers and great documentation and love all those MX tools.
Used it for right around 2 years now, it was the only one that properly utilized my graphics at the time and I even recompiled the kernel to get it to run on the new pc I built last year. Never had it break even once
happy birthday arch!
I actually have been using Arch for basically 6 months now. And I'm really loving it. Before I used Arch, I was just distrohopping from distro to distro. But then I decided, "you know what? I should give Arch a try." And boy I didn't regret it. I used to be a Ubuntu user (I started using Linux 8 months ago). And now I use Arch (btw) with the BSPWM window manager. And I will never move to another distro ever again. (Unless I decide to install Gentoo Linux.) Happy 20th anniversary Arch Linux!
Why would one use gentoo and compile everything. Let one computer compile the program into the binary then distribute that! == Arch
One day I came back from school and my father has install on my desktop Ubuntu 08.04 alongside Windows XP. I liked the idea of free software and I was booting Windows only for games. I was a Ubuntu user until version 14.04 LTS (2015) when a friend at university saw my laptop with custom linux kernel, PPAs and compiled programs, talked me about Arch Linux. I made a VM with Arch, so I can test the installation, bought a SSD and I give it a go. Still using the same installation on the same laptop, no more crashes, no more distro upgrades, no more old programs, just -Syu. Ever since all my computers are running Arch Linux, even my sisters laptop has dual boot with Arch.
I learned so much from Arch Linux, thank you all for the documentation and the great distro!
I fell in love with Arch on the first day of configuration.
4:20 (nice) Probably until not long before Manjaro started. Manjaro started out (e.g. in version 0.8.3) using Arch's old installer.
Switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu 14.04 back in 2014 (I had an IBM ThinkPad z61t from 2001 with half a gig of RAM at the time), continued using Ubuntu across the various machines I've owned since then up to the 20.04 release, but decided to upgrade from 18.04 to Arch Linux. I've never looked back. I'm still using Ubuntu server 18.04 on my server machine because rolling release isn't a great idea for a server, but I can't see myself ever switching back from Arch on my main desktop machine
Happy Birthday Arch!
It's strange to me, with the amount of work and hassle that we used to have to go through in order to install and configure a usable Linux system, that people are still doing it today. I can't believe how much time I wasted with distros like Gentoo and Slackware, inevitably having to install over them with Mandrake in order to get a halfway decent desktop experience.
Damn! It's kinda impossible to believe that, that was the Arch we know today. 😲😲
I had to go look on the forums to see how long ago I joined. I didn't use it the whole time. There were years where I did not run Linux at all. Sometimes, work and real life gets in the way. There were times where I ran openSUSE, which was my first. I still love them both.
Registered: 2007-09-23
I started using Linux with arch and I have to say It helped me learn a lot about Linux.
Still waiting for that pretty interactive installer
Archinstall which is shipped with the iso is as close as you get
@@BrodieRobertson he said pretty 😁
I started my linux desktop journey about 2.5 years ago with arch, after having experience with linux through working on research software for HPC systems. Back then my personal computer was a mac and I was basically just using the terminal and browser on there, customizing as much of my work flow as possible. I was really annoyed by how apple makes things not just fool proof, but they also prevent people with significant IT knowledge from controlling their system. So arch was the natural move for me and It's been an awesome experience so far!
The hardest part about moving to arch was exporting my passwords out of apple key chain. When I exported my passwords you had to export every password individually and confirm it with your user password. Also you couldn't write a script that interacts with the GUI to automate it. Because you can only use applescript to interact with the GUI!!!!
So I had to learn applescript and write custom code just to export my stupid passwords...
Thanks apple for making everything so damn difficult for no reason other than forcing people to stick with your products!
After being dissatisfied with Ubuntu 10.10, I tried playing around with Gentoo, but the compilation time was hell on my P4 and Atom machines. I found the Arch Beginners Guide, which taught me so much about the Linux framework, partitioning, package management, and building my own GUI with openbox. No other distro has been as informative for me, even though I moved to Manjaro for easier Optimus usage.
I miss the Beginners Guide.
"Buildable kit" just like Legos. you "assemble" the packages together to create your best fit system
On my laptop(s) 4-7 years and desktop 3-4 years. I changed disks and reinstalled a few times but also kept track of what to install.. Been 99% stable for me. Laptop 100& stable btw.
Hmm, I started with Mandrake Linux in the early 2000s, used Fedora Core for a while before RH moved it to just Fedora. Then Ubuntu for about 8 years and finally landed on Arch in 2015. Been happily using it across all my systems with the exception of a handful of servers ever since.
I've been sucked into the Arch hole by the youtube algorithm feeding me DT's videos these past few weeks, and now yours. I'm an Ubuntu normie (have daily driven it for half a decade at this point), but I really, really want to hop over to give Arch a try. However, I am a bit too afraid of installing Arch on my home PC (all those things that I have gotten to work but don't remember how), so it'll have to wait until I get a new laptop or something.
been using Linux for 1.5 yrs, started with elementaryOS and switched to Fedora about 2 months ago, i'm loving it but i can't help my curiosity about Arch, might give it a try at some point
My journey into Arch is probably pretty funny. I started out trying Ubuntu, but I wanted newer packages than the release publicly offered, so I kept adding PPAs to Ubuntu. It would work for a while, then something would break, and I'd forget about Linux and use my Windows boot. (I have always done dual-boot). Then, I tried Linux Mint thinking it was a little more polished than base Ubuntu, and while my experience was better, I almost felt like it had too many features. After that, I installed Arch Linux, took my time, and probably have always installed more packages than I actually need, but for my mix of work and gaming, it has been my go to ever since due to recent packages being quickly available and it has been a very stable experience for me! Arch also forced me to become more comfortable with Linux commands, which I appreciate even when guis are available.
It’s about 2 years now. Arch+qtile 🔥❤️
I use Artix btw.
I used to run Manjaro and I now run Arch. I've been on Arch for the past three years. Surprisingly, Arch is much more stable than Manjaro. Arch + KDE is an amazing combo.
I've been using desktop linux for almost a year now, started off on pop os > ubuntu > elementary > pop os > manjaro (and a lot of other distro for a very short time cause i don't like them, like deepin, vanilla debian, kubuntu of that time, fedora etc) in a single month, and then I tried Arch and OpenSUSE TW, both on Btrfs, and has been my daily driver thereafter.
Arch for everyday uses, and TW for occasional strolling and backup if anything goes wrong on Arch and i don't have the time to fix it.
to be fair, breakage on arch is extremely rare in my use case (programming, college, gaming, multimedia). but i like to experiment with a lot of packages and configurations. that it sometimes bricks my system until i rollback with Btrfs.
The first time i installed Arch was a few years ago, but there was some sort of error on my part that borked the network manager. I had Arch exclusively as a ttyl lol
Then i found manjaro and used that for a while. Then i tried vanilla Arch again a lil less than a year ago, but ended up breaking it. I cant remember what i did, but something happened. Went back to manjaro, but hated it. Then i hopped over to Endeavour a few weeks ago, and ive been happy with that since. Maybe i'll try out the Arch install script in a vm or something.
I've used Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Mint for a long time. Just recently tried out Archlabs but I'm having some issues with pacman. Want to move to Arch or Arch based distros but we will see.
I've used all sorts of linux distro's by now, currently got a Win10 / Manjaro dual boot system. Only reason why I went for manjaro is that I wanted a arch based dual that was easy to setup alongside a different OS. (I know I could have went for a manual arch install, I was just to lazy to do so)
Hmmmm... I guess I have been in the Arch camp for 5-6 years I suppose?
I do remember that the moment I had moved to my current house, it didn't take many months before my 10.04 box got annoying and I started upgrading it.
Not wanting to deal with doing a flush and resetup every time and have all that setup work, I decided on a rolling release distro.
And it became Arch and that box has stayed Arch ever since, and no more update pains to deal with.
Checking back on it, it does seem like it is more than 6 years now, as it was at the end of 2015 based on the end of 10.04 LTS date...
Sooo many good memories. WindowMaker oh yeah. Xeyes 🙄
Oh yeah and Walnut Creek Slackware
I've tried Arco and Manjaro but not pure Arch... maybe it's about time I give it a try, this year!
i've been using arch since... 12/09/21. it's been fun, and i think i won't be switching anytime soon lol
I use Garuda Linux on the laptop and the desktop. I like it very much. I know how to install arch Linux but Garuda has like 90% of my settings in like 3 clicks
I started (as most of us) with Ubuntu in 2011. Moved to Mint, Manjaro and now vanilla Arch. I tried Debian, but, for some reason my harware had incompatibilities I was too lazy to solve (a Dell laptop with a 4th gen i7). Arch for me has been flawless. Moreover, I can't go back to Debian based distros for one simple reason. AUR has spoiled me. Almost everything I need is in there. No need to get annoyed adding and removing PPAs, etc. Arch is the best for me and my workflow...
Can't remember, but looks like I've been using arch for almost ten years now. Still remember time when it went from SysVInit to systemd. And pretty sure, that, at least, my first installation of arch was done with fancy installer with menus and stuff...
Guess the OS that I am running while watching this video. :P
Thanks for your video! I was even not fully aware of the 20 years age of the distro. Nice to learn about some history of it here.
I think I am also crazy enough to try that 0.1 version from github. I am kinda curious how Qemu will run it, or whether it fails completely. :P
In a weird way I kind of love that original logo
how did you get your brave browser to look the way it does? Are you using some kind of GTK+ theme for it & if so which one?
I've used it since a year before the systemd switch? Then the switch happened an hosed my system and distro hopped for awhile and been off and on for the past 5 or so years. On my main systems, I've always had in in a VM though. And recently, I just installed Arch32 on my OLD computer.
well, around 2014-2016 when Ubuntu kill it self, i started to search for a new home, so around 2017-2018, i try Arch and it was more stable then any other Distro, because of the new packages, there was less of the backport bugs that make the Static distros like Ubuntu and Fedora so unstable, and if there is a problem, it is 1 command to rollback to the previous version.
i dont look back any more, well unless i need to help a friend on Ubuntu, but many of the problems is the same thing, Snapd is broken, and the best fix for this is to install POP_OS!, and tell them to use flatpak.
been using arch since ... idk around 2014/2015 ish i had been a ubuntu user for years (like ... 2009?) but felt like i could handle a "grownup's version" of linux since i was doing so many modifications anyways
I used arch for less than a than a year. I like it and boot it every day for 30 min I still use Ubuntu Mate as a daily driver.
Whatever works for you
I am pritty sure arch had an ncurses installer at some point. Used arch since then and the pre systemd days . As much as i would love to mess with gentoo arch IMO is the best distro. Not even so much arch itself but the arch family or more accurately the pacman family are just so clean and so good.
I just managed to successfully install it on my iMac. I guess I can say… I use Arch btw
started with debian distros but on arch for more than 1 and half year. tried switching to artix but somehow couldnt. stayed on arch
I've used Arch Linux on and off since about 2002. Although nowadays I prefer the installer from something like arcolinux or manjaro. (yes, I am lazy ;-)
Been an Arch user for almost 6 months now and I haven't returned back to Windows. Doing programming is easy here on Linux where you don't need to configure much unlike on Windows setting the "PATH".
But one thing that surprised me is that Arch Linux came two months later after I was born.
the binary in the logo is of Cuz 86 as Arch was x86, i think
I have messed with arch or arch derivates on and off for probably 5-6 years now, usually just a "hey let me see if I can install this" type of thing, then I was using Manjaro for a while(the bad experiences with it had soured me on arch for a while until I learned that Manjaro and their flawed repo situation was the problem not arch), but Permanently moved over a year or so ago. Before That I was mostly on buntu derivatives or Debian derivates since like 07 but then went to fedora for about a year or 2 before deciding to come to Arch full time. Now I am instantly annoyed when using a deb/buntu type distro because if a package is not in the main repos you have to install it using a PPA, flatpak, AppImage, or if all else fails snap. The AUR has spoiled me.
The only issue I have is that my mouse dies & it can't remember the brightness of my screen
Thats not something you can blame on arch, it doesn't even ship with mouse support
@@BrodieRobertson It should
That's directly linked to your display server and nowadays you're either going to use Wayland or Xorg but Arch isn't going to pick it for you.
Started on Ubuntu and casually move through debian, manjaro, and now finally arch. Arch >>> anything else tbh. It works near flawlessly in terms of stability (given u treat it right) and software support.
i use endeveros and its awesome i love kali linux too its debian but rolling so its different and light wait
Good video.
Next challenge: install the first version of arch and upgrade it all the way to the latest version... (disclaimer; I don't know if this is possible)
On my main machine I run debian, and on my laptop i use Arch, but I have to say, there is literaly no difference in the day to day usage(programming and stuff)
Not only Arch. Many of linux distributions age of majority in these days. Debian for example.
I've been using Artix for a bit longer than a year as my first distro lul.
that slide literally has + in binary written on it lol
using arch since 6 years
arch is nice :thumbsup:
until some months ago you could burn an arch iso into a CD, now it is passed that size but it was a possibility.
Better move to single layer DVDs then
Redhat to Suse to Debian to Ubuntu user :0 never touched Arch "It wasn't me"
I love arch
I tried Arch once, and i hated it. Coming from gentoo, arch is bloated, custom package building is a fucking pain in the ass, changing compile time features gets out of the hand very fast, because changing PKGBUILD files is just not a good way to do it.
I'm sticking with me beloved Gentoo.
I switched from Windows to Arch Linux roughly a month after Windows 10 was announced. I had a Windows 8.1 install running that I wasn't *too* dissatisfied with, but I saw the writing on the wall. The reason for why Arch? Everyone on r/unixp*rn was using it, so I thought there must be something to Arch that makes it popular 😂
The transition to Arch from Windows took like a month or so but I haven't looked back since.
I was luckily in a phase where I wasn't gaming all that much when I switched, and at the time when my interest in gaming came back, DXVK was brand new and starting to be usable. I think all in all my timing was super lucky in all regards
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2 years
I use Arch btw...
why is arch older than most of its user base wtf?
Because it works.
It might be true on forums but I've got an audience primarily in there mid to late 20's
@@BrodieRobertson mid 30's here checking in!
I use Arch, btw
Been using Arch Linux for about 7 years now, always been my favourite.