Comfy music ✔️
Tells us what is happening✔️
Does not end without display settings ✔️
Summary
*PERFECT ARCH INSTALL GUIDE*
I thought the Archlinux install wiki was a bit complicated - and I followed couple of other youtube vids - and had lots of issues. I find THIS guy - followed him exactly as HE followed the wiki and everything worked!. I can't believe he's only has 7K subscribers - he is a fantastic teacher. If I can find some way to buy him a coffee I'll be happy to contribute...
I'm about to make my third attempt to install arch linux. And this video seems on the surface, like it may be the simplest so far. And I love the KDE plasma install at the end as that was my intention once installed.
The arch wiki sucks ngl, doesn’t even include boot loader in the install part of the wiki when even Gentoo foes
Hey, ever heard of "sudo rm -rf /*"? If not, I dare you to try it out in a command line. I suggest doing it on a VM (Virtual Machine) because it is crazy.
@@thatoneocto I was about to say this the wiki is cool and all but it really only shows how to just barely get it running if at all. The second half with the bootloader is definitely a struggle. They should add some full install examples so you can do it a few times to get used to doing it a specific way then be able to go back and customize it.
Me: *Copies step by step*
*Successfully install Arch*
*Looks proudly at screen*
"I did this _on my own!_ :D"
No one can possibly do it without the Arch Wiki either, so you're just one step away from the source.
Copying it step by step, helps imprint the learning right? If you were to do this 20 more times you might start memorizing the steps.
in all seriousness though, it's ok. considering the complexity of installing arch and that not everyone is a computer expert, being able to do this successfully still deserves credit; because the truth is, even with step by step tutorials like these, there are still a million way a user can screw up.
@@mathisblair2798 yeah i see you have a point too. eh, i say just let em have their shortwhile of joy and self fulfillment
I've tried to install Arch a few times over the years and always encountered issues no matter what guide I used. I find this video and it works first try. Huge ups man, we need more people like you in the community.
This is by far the best Arch tutorial ever made, currently re watching for the third time cause it's so good.
I'm currently rewatching it for the third time because for the last 2 times it hasn't worked 🤣
@@Knatrick Yeah, it gets easier over time. Although stuff like full disk encryption and GRUB can be quite difficult.
@@Hawkolate yeah finally got it down. However I was a bit disappointed. At least for arch, many games I play aren't supported and I've given up on getting steam and Nvidia drivers to work today.
You forgot one thing. Before generating the grub file, you should install the microcode for your CPU. It's used to apply security and performance patches to your CPU. For amd, it's: "sudo pacman -S amd-ucode" and for intel it's: "sudo pacman -S intel-ucode". Nevertheless, great video!
@@castellanos-us7kxyeah you should be to be safe try it in a virtual machine
This is very old but after the intel-ucode install, any other steps or are you good from there?
I know that this vid has been 2yrs now but im still greatful that finally I successfully installed the archlinux manually for the first time because of him!thank you so much denshi for these tutorial and thanks for your generosity.
This is one of the best, simple, informative arch install guide I ever get to see in youtube.
I *_CANNOT_* thank you MORE for this guide. Before I found this guide, on my first attempt I almost locked myself out of my BIOS! This guide was informative and made the installation process understandable. I can now proudly say I use arch btw. Thanks!
can I ask how? genuine question, I'm just curious and didn't know this could happen if you install arch incorrectly
@@unak1te I forget how, but one of the boot options was a jumbled mess of characters and trying to actually boot the computer would just freeze it.
Thank you. Had to start over from scratch 2 times and finally got it right with your guide. So many other TH-cam guides just leave you without a desktop to boot to and just say “lol have fun, figure it out”
Dude I literally tried a bunch of other guides and followed the Arch wiki but alas to no avail. UNTIL I STUMBLE ACROSS THIS VIDEO. Even 2 years after originally uploading this video tutorial you are saving people's asses thank you very much!
@@landix537 No, I’m on an actual machine. But I have tried this before with Mental Outlaw’s guide and I kept getting an error there too where when I tried to install grub it gave me some error saying the efi file couldn’t be located or something like that. I tried multiple times but it didn’t work. Now with this tutorial it did work. I think it had something to do with the boot partition being FAT 32? I honestly don’t know though. Sorry.
@@WhatsEndoDoing yea, no didnt work my best guess is bc of vm might try to install it fr fr
Thanks, Denshi! Now I can go into every corner of the World Wide Web and saying something along the lines of "i use arch btw" while simultaneously sharing screenshots of my desktop with a terminal window open with the CLI program "neofetch".
Jokes aside, this tutorial is very straightforward! I recommend it!
To this day, works like charm but there is some notes I'd like to give:
-To set a separate home partition it's like setting the /boot/efi partition then mounting the /dev/xxyY partition to it
-Every step, refer to the wiki, it's 2024 this tutorial is still working but try to refer the wiki, things amy change, and they did.
-try on a virtual machine, why not even taking notes
-Failure or error, fine it's Arch baby and always read the error, you may figure it out on your own
-Enjoy the experience and the piano music 😂❤
Again, thank you denshi you've truly introduced me to arch ❤🎉
Thank you dude! I cannot believe how surprised I was when everything worked without any error!
Following you, you make great stuff!
Btw you can use archinstall if you want to install it again later but without the hassle
@@randomname2437 true, but make sure you know how to troubleshoot afterwards. archinstall can break things
I'm from the future and we now have an install script that takes care of a lot of these things. However, anyone truly wanting to understand and appreciate arch and/or linux in general would still be well served to do this by themselves a few times. Thanks for this video!
I concur, it’s a very good way of learning the function of commands that tend to run in the background.
Can you make a video on how to manage Arch over time? Like if log files, cache, clunk starts to build up? Also any important post-install tweaks
No one will see this but 9:13 if you have an intel based CPU make sure that you also add intel-ucode
lol, i saw it) thank you, also wiki says that i need to update grub config after that
Luckily, I looked at the Arch install guide in parallel with this video so I didn't. Pretty sure for AMD CPUs you need amd-ucode too.
Just did it on my VirtualBox vm after way too long.
I must say I'm kinda proud of myself because there were only a few spots that screwed me up and stopped me from connecting to the wifi after installation and stopped me from running Cinnamon desktop environment. (I needed the display manager which I had no idea what that was.) The rest I got completely from researching the wiki.
Great video! Helped me get through that final bit.
and one more thing if you get a error regarding grub-install saying it will not install on a blocklist just append --force at the end of the command and it will work fine and then if you are using virtual box . remove the iso or detach it before rebooting or close the vm detach it and start it again you will be entered into arch linux happy journey
You sir are a tremendous help. It only took me 5 tries until I noticed my mistake was right in front of me. This is a very accurate and comfy video, happy 420.
I don't think I've ever commented on a youtube video before but I can't thank you enough for this guide. Have tried so many times to install Arch over my very short Linux journey and this was incredible and I got it first try. Thanks again.
Its nice to know that me needing help installing arch and u helping me on discord gave u the reminder to make this video. XD
Hey if you mess with drives a lot you should generate your fstab with genfstab -U /mnt intead of just genfstab /mnt. It uses the drive ids instead of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. This is good because it can cause problems if whats in those folders changes and drive ids do not
Exactly, if your sda drive fails and you have multiple drives in your system (even a cd drive) they will all be shifted down by default which can cause some serious issues, even the arch Linux wiki recommends generating your fstab with the -U flag to ensure that it checks the UUID instead of the dev/ name
While partitioning disks, cfdisk will by default choose sda, but make sure that’s the drive you want to use as your main boot, and not your USB. If you need a list of your drives use lsblk, if you try to write to your USB, you’ll probably fuck up the install.
Why tyhe cunting shit wasn't this in the video near the start???? I took two hours to get it "working" only to learn this now and I can only do arch Linux via my usb stick now :(
Genuinely very good and calm guide, everything straight to the point. I'm one and a half hours in, installed Arch and now I'm just doing the drivers, see if I can get Hyprland to run with my prehestoric GeForce GT 710. I enjoyed watching this very much.
Thank you for making this :D
I was trying to install arch for over 3 hours trying archinstall and getting a python error, trying from a different guide, got a keyring error, another one and grub error. Found your guide and finally did it. Thank you SO much!
If you’re using Wi-Fi, include ‘iwd’ and ‘dhcpcd’ instead of ‘networkmanager’ 9:00
to anyone reading this after the install, you can still connect to wifi using nmtui if you didn’t include those
The explanation of all Arch install I have seen. Subscribed.
This is the "just works" guide, even in 2024. Good job 👍
This is the first time I installed Arch Linux on my own. Earlier, I used arch-based distros just to avoid the installation process but your guide seemed really easy to follow. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Small thing to note: I have set up my machine using this guide and eventhough I had different problems during my 7-8 months of usage, I could resolve them, expect for the one I had today. I updated the system and I didn't have enough space in my boot partition (which was set to 100M). Because of this I could not boot it again, even when I tried to fix things with the live usb installer. I believe that this issue could be resolved if I had more free time but I had to get the laptop going so I installed Manjaro linux and had to delete my drive. I just want to say that maybe it is safer to give your boot partition 300-500M just in case something like this happens.
very late but just resize the boot partition, or delete it and create a bigger one then reinstall grub
No trolling ✔
No mocking ✔
No making fun of you when you had issues/problem ✔
No shouting to user to read the friendly manual ✔
Straight to the point ✔
This is A real chad installing Linux.
I installed cachy os (arch linux) because I gave up on installing arch, I might retry later today with your tutorial, I subscribed with notifs on and liked the vid
Amazing and one of the best and yet easiest guides on yt . Even me and my friends as complete Linux noobs could install arch Linux thanks to you
I installed arch for the first time, thanks to you. The arch wili had me confused during the partition phase.
Thank you 🙏
Straight To the point, No delays, No annoying music, Explaining thoroughly and the tutorial works? imma check if u have a donation link cause
I only accept Monero (XMR) for donations unfortunately. Alternatively, TH-cam has a donation feature in the comments IIRC.
@@Denshi Imma buy some monero. I can’t thank you enough after 2.5 weeks your video was sent to me
you do god's work man I was getting so stressed about the wiki. Thankyou SO so much! 😭😭❤️
i don't really comment on that much videos, but this channel and tutorial actually helped me install Arch my first time (without archinstall), before this I tried installing it with the Arch guide and other tutorials but no luck (always locking up or desktop environment completely nuked). I think the extra parts found in this tutorial actually fixed the problem. I'm very grateful that I stumbled upon your video, I even subscribed by the dedication you give to your tutorials. Thanks really much for this, hope others can use this tutorial for to install Arch in the near future. (and also, i use arch btw).
Don't look for other arch-install guide, this channel got you. 👊
No actually read the arch wiki it's very helpful especially if you get stuck and the video doesn't contain the solution to your specific problem
This guy is legend save him for more video
I literally gave up in arch linux just because of installation but this video save my life 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Pls keep creating content like this every one will appreciate you mark my words❤🧐🧐
I installed arch Linux using an easy installer, but I decided to watch this video for fun. No joke, this guy solved an issue I have been having for years merely by pointing out that the package sof-firmware exists. Instant subscription
Dude thanks a lot! I've spent a whole day tomorrow trying to set it up. It worked perfectly from the first try with your guide!
it will break sometimes, just use windows, why make it hard for yourself?
@@hanhthien2948I gues u don't care about your privacy... And you can use other versions of linux too (mint, ubuntu, pop etc.) most of them are simpler.
I tried going just off of the installation guide and got to the boot loader and you helped the rest of the way, thanks
Denshi your the best i swear! I tried every tutorial and they didn't work but urs did and it was excellent! Thx for it
Man a awesome tutorial, the first one who is easy to follow, and not unimportant, it works in one go. Thanks
bro you made my wish come true, let me tell you my story, as a game developer and former software developer first time I wanted to learn Linux I did not know what distro to use so I was just surfing the web and saw Arch Linux logo and fell in love with it but then I realized that people say arch is difficult to learn and so on, I installed Ubuntu which I did not like because it was just like windows not to mention the orange color ...
A year passed and I'm still on Windows, so I decided to install Debian this time, I ended up reinstalling Debian 3 times, I just could not find the right forums and repositories so I would end up deleting and modifying important config files basically it was not as user-friendly as people say.
Last night I decided to make my wish come true. It's the best and user-friendly distro out there, I've managed to install and work my way around using Arch Wiki which is damn good, it's so powerful.
Thanks man, for making my wish come true.
BTW I run Arch Linux😆
The key to fight the giant monster called Arch Linux is "Patience"
Hi Denshi,
Thanks for your Video.
Has been a great help for me!
As many Fellows have said, after nearly 2 days (18 hrs plus) trying to make a Manual install of Arch (without archinstall) and breaking 5 or 6 installations, thanks to your Guide I've completed it successfully!
🤩😄👍
Best tutorial I’ve ever seen on TH-cam so far
Clean, useful and straight to the point. Well done!
This is the only guide in the world that makes the Archwiki install guide into a legible piece of information.
Fr, the archwiki is only for those who are machine engineers or experienced swes.
quick, easy, and super comfy guide! 10/10!
9:14 It doesn't work, it says "ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root."
try running pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring before trying to install any packages, i had a similar issue and after running that it worked!
@@ahmadsakib8947 remove `soft-firmware` from the installation command. `pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware base-devel grub efibootmgr nano networkmanager`
it worked perfecty thanks to you. This was an amazing guide. You're such an awesome teacher. It was mad easy to follow you.
Denshi, your guide is exceptionally good. just subscribed to your channel bro
If you went to the comment section to see a review about the video, the emphasis on the "Comfy" word is nicely applied, it's a wonderful guide lol, great job :)
Just want to say thank you. Best simple and quick tutorial. I’ve installed arch with the script in the past , this method fixes things out of the box. I will say though it does introduce a lot of kde bloatware. That’s on me though. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for this guide...i learnt a lot and actually enjoyed doing it along with you! I went with gnome desktop environment.
Your tutorial is immediately what I chose for arch Linux. Thanks man!
Omg, I tried it for a week and keep not working haha, but I search a lot for do it on forums and finally I got this working, thank you so much man, this installation really teach me a lot about how OS works
this sure did help me install arch linux. Also very good music. Now I see why it's ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕗𝕪
Pretty good tutorial, I'm getting started into linux and was able to install arch thx to it!
I've encountered a huge problem trying to boot though, I think it was caused bc of msi bios on my motherboard. In case you can't find your disk as UEFI drive scrolling through your boot options, you might need to add the "--removeable" option while installing grub (as in 17:40). You would need to type "grub-install --removeable /dev/sda1" instead of just "grub-install /dev/sda1".
I apologize for my bad english, I'm a bit rusty at it :s
it's the third time I'm installing arch using this step-by-step, it never fails
i trust the guy who has "Comfy" in the title. awesome video btw
Probably the best arch install tutorial ln TH-cam. Grats🎉
This is very calm........ Very calm...........................
Failed the installation 4 times so far. But I learned so much from just trying it.
Not just a do this guide; rather, here’s why to do this guide
*AWESOME GUIDE*
This is some next level video..pretty much a work of art!
thank you denshi this guide was really insightful, just wanted to add one more thing if u are installing it on a laptop probably with a wifi u might wanna add iwd, and enable iwd service and systemd-resolved (if i am spelling it correct) so, the next time u boot u wont have to go to the hassle of reading the docs and reddit posts and ur wifi will work out of the box and thank u again, due this video of yours i finally got my foot in the door with reading docs and doing things on my own and i use arch btw.
Not only have I used this to install arch, I actually just used it to save my install due to switching from raid to hack breaking my system. Turns out I needed to install grub again. Thanks!!
thanks bro...I have been try to install arch linux for 5x times.
it works using your video
Thank you. This video one of the best for installing the arch Linux. I understood very much of installing the arch Linux of your video. this video give more clarity of installation to me. Your are impressed me. Your teaching very very good. Again I thank you 🙏
Please help I need help, when I unmourned and rebooted my system it sent me back to the installation screen, what do I do I’m panicking
Damn... you are good.. this is the easiest arch linux install I have seen in YT.... cheers man....
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 TOP!!! The best!! I followed your steps and built a KVM with Arch to test in my Fedora!! you are amazing!!
Unarguably the best video install guide for arch linux.
Hey everyone, for those who followed all the steps but after rebooting, the GRUB bootloader just dont show up, i think i have a solution.
Reading on the wiki page i found out that some UEFI firmwares require a bootable file at a known location before they will show. To fix that run this command on the chroot bash:
efibootmgr -u
if you dont see any arch or grub related boot devices run this command:
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --removable
That worked for me. Hope it helps other people.
The only video that worked for me, tysm!
I'm not that into Linux and I managed to install arch with this video, thank you, wanted to try this out of boredom and wanted to try something new
Hey I don't know if you'll see this comment 2 years later, but for the locale/keymap part (around 13:30), how would you go about adding multiple keymaps?
For example, I find myself using the Japanese keyboard layout pretty often on my current Windows 11 computer, and sometimes have the international keyboard for extra symbols like the umlaut and other accent marks in other languages.
How would I do something similiar in arch here?
omfg I've been struggling with the bootloader part for so long because there were too many variables, this finally worked for me!
i can’t express how thankful I am for this video
Awesome guide. Took me my time but still works, ty so much!
Damn, I was losing my mind using fdisk but cfdisk makes things much easier! Thanks so much for this!
I can't count how many times I've used this tutorial ❤
This is, hands down, the best guide ever 🎉
Hey how to add my windows for dual boot?near that grub config part
This tutorial is the most blessed thing on the Internet. Thank you.
This tutorial helped me install the very operating system im commenting this on right now, though i did deviate with packages and ui. it helped al ot getting the base OS installed and the wifi working, Thanks
bro you did so good on this video. better than any other.
Great job man!!! Sharp graphics and good music
Comfy Arch Linux install guide = normal arch Linux install guide + piano in the background 😂
Good guide man
I keep distributing hopping and want to finally tackle arch, this video is top shelf!
A very helpful guife whivh is very forgiving even when you get lost. Very helpful
Amazing! I had no issues at all installing this on my new hard drive!
Hey I did this and when the grub screen came up it was just a command line and there are no options
thanks for this calm install guide, usually when installing arch using other guides i get very angry and break my thinkpad and start eating the internal components, it usually takes like 50 minutes to calm down after that and by then i've ruined 8 friendships and got a divorce. I really appreciate it.
relatable
same
i liked this bcs i too ruined 8 friendships (haven't got laid yet)
It happens to the bests
ZAMN sorry bro.