I just discovered a fix for the crackling audio in DaVinci Resolve! Whilst I was finishing up this video, apparently someone found a (potential?) fix on the DaVinci Resolve forum. Note, I haven't tried this out extensively yet, but I recorded a few short clips that were fine: - Make sure DaVinci Resolve is using PulseAudio ALSA, if its using Pipewire, you'll get no output. - To fix the crackling, go to Video and Audio I/O settings, and put "Playback Processing Buffer" to 1024, and "Record Buffer Size" to 6. This increases the latency a bit, but it shouldn't be a big issue for most people. Now if it only weren't for the mysterious random "Loading Projects" issue. I'm not really sure what causes it considering that on Fedora 39, I don't remember having that issue.
@@Livakivi that is great to hear. I assume the outro about linux is not usable for you is still true, but I have found another fix for the codec issues. Davinci Resolve does support av1 decoding and the opus audio codec, with that you can use Davinci without blowing up your file sizes. Pretty interessting fix, just not sure if it is applicable to you
It'd be great if BMD would support the modern standards on the Linux desktop. Y'know, them being Pipewire and Wayland. Rocky Linux is eventually going to change that since they want to remain in parity with RHEL, and RHEL is removing X11 from their next release IIRC. But hey, I'm not a customer, so who am I to ask.
As a software dev, the Arch wiki is one of the best documentations I've ever seen considering the amount it covers. The only things that come close are Apple's documentation for Swift, the MDN, and *maybe* Java's docs
Arch is the way. Even when I do jump into something else when I run into issues the Arch wiki is usually a first stop. The side notes and recommendations resolve most problems.
If you think Arch wiki is good documentation then you haven't even seen the Gentoo one. It is unironically 10x better than the Arch one. The install guide teaches you most of what you should know about how a linux distro installation works.
The Arch Wiki was the reason I went Arch in 2013. It constantly came up in google searches and I thought if the wiki is so good the distro can't be bad.
@@TheFrankyDoll Thank you for sharing and yeah, youtube loves autodeleting comments with any sort of links. I think they even remove comments with yt links :D
As someone who has experience with dual booting Windows with Linux, Windows making partitions read only is probably because you have fast startup enabled, which sort of hibernates certain parts of the system to make your Windows boot a lot faster (or when you shut down Windows improperly and haven't run chkdsk in Windows or ntfsfix under Linux, it can also make the Windows partition read only). You should disable fast startup feature in Windows to have less issues dual booting.
@@sher1x165 Wrong. This is where UEFI comes into play - windows boot loader interacts weirdly with the UEFI. Best thing for dual booting is to not do it, it creates weird problems caused by Windows
26:45 WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. The use of the word "emulating" has hurt my Arch Linux user BTW soul and I don't think I will recover from it.
@@QuinceyEvans-h8q Can people please do research before they pretend to be an expert on the internet? "Emulation" mean's "Hardware Emulation"... Wine doesn't do any of that!
Almost every time that's the thing that the youtubers get hung up on. Curious that the ONE THING that they need for making the videos is the thing that most often doesn't work, which leads to almost every LInux experimentation video making it look bad. Sigh.
@@Vitor-vy4dy I mean, its not their fault. this is their livelihood and passion. I think the real take away is that its sad that most creatives rely on proprotery software, especially when so much art is about social messaging, and their being horribly exploited by companys like adobe. I mean ffs adobe skims your art to train there ai.
For a power user like me, linux was always a DIY system, and arch just enables me to have more control over things, and keeps things modular, so fixing stuff is easier, or whats even more important, actually possible. Arch is not for everyone, and thats a good thing, gives other distros things they can improve upon, targeting a completely different user base. Am I proud of using arch? No. Do I care about x11 vs wayland, pipewire vs pulseaudio? No. I just use what works for me, based on advantages/disadvatages and problems Ive encountered. OS is just an OS. I just need a system that works the way I want it to, and be able to troubleshoot it myself.
You caught me off guard with that Sonic Adventure clip at 8:10. I knew you were one of our people (why I subbed), but damn, you really are one of our people.
This kind of trouble shooting is a real pain to go through, but I find it very useful. I was a windows 11 users totally fed up with the OS for various reasons. I decided to give Linux Mint a shot and I love it so far. There have been issues but I have been able to trouble shoot them and the troubleshooting has been less frustrating than Windows 11. I think the best OS probably depends on your knowledge, your goals, and the amount of time you have. I think it will be awhile before I'm trying Arch after seeing what you went through.
Genuinely surprised you’ve got this many issues with your setup. I’ve got a 3090, and stuff literally just worked after I installed Linux Mint. Really hope whatever issues you were having will someday be resolved!
@@timonix2 I have a 4090, and also user hyprland. I don't bother with the real arch though, endeavouros has reasonable defaults for everything, and I had my play at complex distro installs with gentoo for a few years.
The difference is, Mint Just Works™ but Arch is the Linux where you, specifically, must make things work yourself. I just swapped from Mint to Arch this week, btw.
because its Minx its distribution that well most things works that's whole point some distributions The are more user friendly and easier to use even without much knowledge of how things work
I am a long time linux user. As long as this X11 to Wayland transition is still going on there will be painpoints. Wine games using only wayland is still being worked on. Jetbrains for example only recently introduced wayland experimentally. No idea what Black magic is doing.
Ive been using Hyprland for over a year, and I would like to add, what in the world is Steam doing? It feels incredibly laggy and everytime you close a window there's a 50% chance the entire program just freezes for a solid minute...? Everything else I use works just fine, though. I even set electron apps like discord to use wayland natively and it works pretty much flawlessly. IntelliJ works fine. All the games I play work fine, including under Proton. Resolve I couldn't get to work, though I didn't try much, because I already had it installed on another distro so I just used that because I didn't need it much.
@@w花b Yeah that’s a problem. Also I’m using hyprland on my Linux test bench and I can’t copy and paste long ass terminal commands from a web browser to Kitty terminal. On Ubuntu using GNOME 46 it works perfectly fine on Wayland so idk what’s going on
@@w花b That's such a disingenuous interpretation of what OP said, holy shit. Wayland works fine for many people already and has for a while, it really depends on what software you use. I've not had any major issues since 2021 with Plasma desktop and I do both gaming with/without Wine and development with Jetbrains IDEs.
@@w花bOnly issues I have had with wayland was discord and nvidia otherwise nothing for discord I swapped to using vencord and my nvidia issues don't happen anymore.
It was the DIY stuff that attracted me to Arch. I'm still fairly new at it and I haven't completely decided if it's for me. But I love that I have to learn and use the tools given to me to solve my problems. The documentation is good, though a bit daunting because it assumes you have a certain level of understanding already. It's taught me a lot about how Linux works and how to solve problems. I've used Linux before but never too much. I decided to jump off the deep end and not be afraid of making mistakes, giving myself an environment just to learn. If it works out, my next PC will be Arch.
I use CachyOS, an Arch distro, and I've had no problems installing it or using it. It even installs multimedia and game support packages if you want to install them. The only configuration issues I had were just a learning curve on my part, which is natural when switching from Windows. I've updated it frequently as well, and have had no problems.
I love watching your Linux videos they really give an honest overlook of them. Weirdly I would literally be fine jumping to Linux it seems as my workflow is literally just word-processing and internet browsing. Just too lazy to grt around to it yet lol
I had all the fonts from macOS + Windows as I transferred them from those PCs, which were used to render websites and such as well. The game also uses a very custom Japanese font which should definitely be installed with the game, and the game did work with Proton. I'm assuming that there's just some incompatibility with the Unity export for the Japanese version or something, there's a chance that they never properly tested the Japanese Linux version.
@Livakivi ah good point. Thats a big issue with Native Linux games since they are usually an afterthought and not as well maintained. Plus there is the issue of Linux ABI rapidly changing meaning that linux games stop working unless constantly maintained. Wine is much more stable in this regard.
@@AndRei-yc3ti The API changes are pretty unfortunate, especially for larger applications such as Resolve, which is why it makes sense that they'd choose a stable distro such as Rocky or CentOS and only offer official support for those.
@@Tamtam-hh3xv Yeah you need to uncomment the jp line and do a locale-gen, then make sure it actually runs with it. I use Lutris to set the locale for visual novels.
Feels like this year many youtubers made videos about trying Linux. I'm glad it get that kind of attention and common issues will be fixed! (looking at you davinci resolve!)
8:55 LOL I remember this. I literally updated my system just to get immediately kicked to my system's UEFI and I remember just saying "what the fuck." The fix for this was to just boot a live install, mount the EFI partition, and update Grub with the latest version, but it did catch me off guard. Arch is a great distribution. It is the one that has offered me the most stability on Linux, believe it or not, but I have had the exact same experience as you when it comes to having to put in so much time into it became a little bit of a burden, especially at the beginning. I don't remember where I heard this from, but it's still true to this day: "Linux is good if you don't value your time." Cosmic is super promising, and it has been good enough for me with my development workflow so I've been daily driving it since the alpha release. Great video as always, Liva.
It's kind of a magical experience because when I first started Linux, it was breaking quite literally every other week. And I didn't even really change anything. I wasn't feeling like I was learning much. But over time, I must have gotten better because I've had the same operating system for like a year now. And it doesn't have any issues. And the performance is much better than Windows or macos
You are definitely my favorite TH-camr right now - I've never had this, but you make me want to make TH-cam videos. It's so cool to see a TH-camr that just makes videos about whatever they're doing/interested in. I've probably watched every one of your videos by now (except your LoL one, sorry 😅)
The crackling audio is almost definitely an audio buffer issue. That said, like you mention in the video, every time you try to do something new in Linux, there's the risk that it's going to break. There'll inevitably be some graphics bug or an update that'll break a workaround. Flatpak is all well and good until it isn't and you're trying to use Flatseal to give an application access to various system locations in hopes that you'll be able to solve the problem. I want so very badly to use Linux as a daily driver. I adore the flexibility and open nature that usually means if you can see it, you can modify it, and in the case of Arch, it's documented in the official wiki. I did try running my Windows install within QEMU inside of Arch and interfacing with it via Looking Glass, which worked perfectly, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt like I was hamstringing Windows and Linux at the same time by having to pin CPU cores for one OS or the other, and thereby only making my own life harder.
Thank you very much! I'm definitely curious about Cachy as I've heard a lot of good things about it! Also, sorry for the delayed response, I never got a notification for the comment.
Hot take: The only thing holding linux back is people unwilling to learn or understand more about computers. Though the points in this video were quite valid.
Installing from the Wiki is the one true way - so many people follow random, out-of-date video tutorials, then complain when things break. Good on you for putting in the work up front!
What I found nice during my try of Arch Linux was that even if after update everything broke (which happened once in 2 months running it as my primary OS), it is easy to roll back before update Unfortunately I wanted to dual boot Windows and Linux and for some reason after those two months, Windows started digging into GRUB loader of my Arch Linux and made it unusable. And I need Windows still for some programs that just do not have a good counterpart on Linux and/or running those Win-only programs in virtual env in Linux was a bug-filled hassle, not worth the pain and time. So back to the Windows for now. But Linux is very close to becoming OS I would run daily without issues, just a few more years maybe
Windows breaking GRUB (and other bootloaders) is an unfortunately very common issue that is only getting worse since Microsoft keeps pushing updates that break them in some way (despite saying that they would do everything not to, specifically for GRUB). Such is one of the reasons a dual-boot on a single drive or simply on a drive shared with Windows is not recommended unless you absolutely have to. If one really has no option but to dual-boot like this, however, there is always the option of installing the desired bootloader on a USB drive or SD card when wanting to boot into Linux, and thus, Windows would not break it. I use this on my HP 250 G6 laptop that dual-boots Windows 10 and Debian 12; Though I fortunately do not have to do such a thing on my main computer, which only runs NixOS. On a completely unrelated note, you have an adorable profile picture.
@@atemoc Yeah I hate windows for messing with other loaders like this, but I still need to use win sometimes, so it is a shame. Using a loader from USB drive would solve this issue, so thank you for that suggestion! It unfortunately means, that I have to keep USB with loader always there or so, since I need Windows for some work in only 5-10% of the time, but still And thank you so much
@@atemoc Out of curiosity, why do you NixOS on only one of your systems? Doesn't that kind-of go against the point? I assume you can get the benefits of immutability with read-only btrfs snapshots without the extra hassle.
Davinci gets stuck due to some gtk libraries; deleting the gtk2 libraries in the Davinci installation directory fixes the startup issue. It is not a Hyprland issue but more like a GTK2 and Wayland compatibility issue from what I've seen. Can't remember where I found the solution but I followed it and it worked flawlessly for me while using Manjaro KDE Wayland. Betting the fix mentioned works just fine in Hyprland. As far as your drive being locked out due to improper closure of Windows is exactly what happened. Kind of like a preemptive resource lock for faster access concerning read and write ops - essentially the drive was never "unmounted" by Windows or released.
Dang man, cool to see you trying again but wish you had listened to your comment section on the last video or watched a install video because wayland on nvidia is very hit or miss and you were encouraged to stick with X11, and you forgot to install multilib during the archinstall, more repositories, and skipped over it. Still fun to see more Linux content but you are really trying to do this on hard mode which obviously makes it harder on yourself. Edit* My comment sounds negative but I didn't mean it to, I just want you(and others) to have the best experience. The video is still really good and I appreciated the quality content, so thank you my dude!
You used archinstall and didn’t configure hyprland, yes it was doomed from the start. But at least you were willing to try arch Linux, I daily drive it with a similar setup to you. Been daily driving for about a year. Good luck for the future!
Arch has a fantastic wiki. When I have an issue with whatever distro I'm using, the Arch wiki has the solution to whatever is troubling me because an Arch user has already encountered that problem. That's the nicest way I can say Arch shouldn't be used by anyone but the most masochistic of aspires looking for the most tedious, inefficient, and painful way to flagellate themselves.
Best distro I've ever used personally. Even on nixpkgs-unstable, with all the problems that may come with that (usually "fixed" by delaying nix flake update by a couple of days-week 😅), I haven't had a complete breakage of my system ONCE. And I love the fact I can configure pretty much everything through a functional programming language, with custom-made abstraction layers that make it easier to define things down the line (I built my own keybind solution for zellij recently, and goddam it's so much nicer to define now compared to the default way of doing it (keys sometimes have to be strings with escaped strings inside (cuz nix->kdl conversion works like that), and just looks ugly and hard to read). The language itself could be better (lazy evaluation hinders the performance/usability of LSPs), but it's still a DIY heaven (I tried guix as well, but it doesn't have as many packages as nix, and finding tooling to support Guille didn't bear much fruit + I'm not a huge fan of LISP/schema personally). And all that can be just stored in git (or any vcs) repo, literally an almost complete backup of your entire setup in less than 1Gb (very generous estimate) 99% of the time (depending on how much you store there ofc (like media, secret keys, dotfiles etc)). The best part - it all can be mixed-and-matched for multiple machine setups, so you can have your setup perfectly synced between all you nixos-driven devices, with hardware/purpose-related differences. Sorry for the rant, have a nice day😅
Legit first watched this for the first time the day after it came out, and then installed Arch on my new laptop as my daily driver the day after I watched this. It was mostly easy to move since I can use open-source alternatives of Office apps (or MS Office online if sharing/cooperating is important), I already use open source video editors, and I don't play multiplayer games (so no fears of anti-cheat). Linux is great for programming and casual tasks. I also have development experience in Linux for 2 years (website deployment, WSL, Docker, an OS course, and running remote ML models viw SSH), so no fears about having to relearn the terminal either here. Aside from some apps of secondary/tertiary importance being borked (probably due to a misconfiguration), and not knowing whether I like GNOME or KDE (the only DEs that currently support Wayland, which is important for an easier time with multi-monitor support and future-proofing), I've had a great experience overall this past week.
Funny seeing this video after 2 days of fighting my computer trying to install Arch. I finished yesterday afternoon. Idk how long it will last before I break it, but I learned SO MUCH about file structures and the Linux architecture. Hell, I even learned a ton about how bootloaders work. I've never been a Linux power user, but now I feel a lot more comfortable digging through directories and editing configuration files. 10/10.
"Disk encryption... いらねぇ" Very relatable, lol I will say, I would normally advise against using archinstall. The benefit of actually installing the system yourself is that you learn how everything fits together, which makes fixing potential future problems a lot easier. And while I wouldn't say that things breaking is particularly common, it does happen. In the ten or so years I've been using Arch, I ended up with an unbootable system after an update maybe three times. And once time my keyboard stopped working, which is about the same severity, lol. (That particular problem was a bug in the kernel and downgrading fixed it. Two kernel versions later it was also fixed there)
yup, my first experience with Arch has been installing it first with a video to a USB (for some reason), and then later to a machine using the Wiki, but now after installing it like 3 times manually I think I will use archinstall on my new install, as I think I know what Im doing XD
Every time I start to feel like I want to try linux again a new video of yours comes out and it reminds me of all the issues and time-waste and I postpone it for another year or two. So thanks for effectively saving my time!
you'll never know if it works for you and your workflow/specific software needs if you never try it again. boot up a live usb to try it out for a while before committing to it.
The only issues I've had in ~2yrs were pretty much user error, x11 limitations(no Wayland yet because Nvidia), or very occasional software compatibility issues. I had a lot more issues on Windows than Linux ever gave me, and it would have been even less with different hardware. Only way to know for your workflow and hardware is to try Linux yourself.
Yeah that's just cause arch is enthusiast level shit, I've been using linux for like 18 years and despite all that experience I still main linux mint. Just pick a stable, user-friendly distro (ideally something debian-based) and use the graphical tools and you'll be fine.
I am very surprised you never tried kde plasma. It's very customizable sometimes the desktop is a bit buggy but all software I've tried in plasma just works. It can also dynamically tile with a kwin script. Kde arch is the year of the Linux desktop for me.
Pro tip: do a few manual installs, configure it, see what breaks, get familiar with it. Then automate your install/configuration with either scripts, Ansible (that's what I do) or nix (my next TODO). That way you'll always be able to refer back to your setup and run it if something breaks, not to mention fresh reinstall if needed.
22:48 because of the video you made (this one), it might be fixed it was commented by Brodie Robertson, who reacted to your video, and Vaxry, the developer of Hyprland, saw Brodie's video and commented that the error was closed because it was related to some old stuff but that he thought there was an open issue to fix that, and that if it wasnt the case he would be fine with solving that if someone opens an issue and if it is fixable somehow its a tldr, might not be understandable because im bad at summarizing lol
You just saved my morning! Thank you very much Livakivi! Edit: For a minute I thought Debian Testing/Sid might be an option, because that would just be Arch/Fedora with more stable packages. But yes, Cosmic might actually help with lots of things. It's like RISC-V in that it doesn't come with nearly as much compatibility "bloat" because it's a complete rewrite. Though it will still use Wayland, so I guess I'll just wait for your Cosmic video! :D
This reopens all the wounds I'm somehow gotten to be fine with each day :D Got the flashbacks of dealing with each one of your issues but changing my workflow instead of the software since I didn't have to use video editing stuff
Good video, it was really sobering to see that Arch didn't really solve anything in the end (I've personally never had any issues with it, but then again I don't use video editing software or Nvidia) and that even an hour more wasted on fiddling with your system was becoming too much, since I'm guilty of spending many many hours on this instead of getting school work done. Also for Anki, have you tried using the qt5 version from the website directly? I have no idea what the differences from the existing Arch packages are but I'm not using either the flatpak version or any of the Arch Linux package versions of Anki so you saying that you had to use the flatpak version caught my attention since I was under the impression that the Arch package binaries were basically the same as the static version I installed about 2 years ago (qt5 v2.1.54). Sorry for the 'it works on my machine' comment but anyways, once again, epic video
Don't force comp on Nvidia+X11*: it still has a nasty bug where some software (mostly Proton, so 90+ percent average Steam library) will render at a frame in minutes and lock up while rendering in fullscreen. Big reason I adapted to Wayland, and in most cases you shouldn't need to force comp on Wayland *I know the vid he specifically uses Wayland
Honestly, you could have avoided a lot of these issues had you just gone AMD. Seriously. I know, performance isn't quite up to par with Nvidia and you had an Nvidia card already, but, the drivers in AMD are much better in terms of compatibility with the distro and the multiple DEs.
Watching videos like this always makes me feel like I'm living in some kind of different universe than people who make Linux transition TH-cam videos. I think the worst issue I've had in four years of running Fedora on my main gaming desktop system was having to disable the compositor when gaming back when I still used X11 and Nvidia.
I have an RTX 3080 and I have the exact same issues, one to one, in minute detail. People don't believe me, because their system "just works", and they can't recreate it, and say I did something wrong. I hope someone higher-up watches this video and understands what are the real problems of switching to Linux, and not arbitrary things like "I can't live without this software or games". I'm happy to reboot to Windows for those apps and games.
There is no 'higher-ups' in linux lol. Go to the developers and report the issue properly instead of talking to randos on the internet. If it was me having this issue, it would have been solved ages ago. New users really need to get out of the corporate mindset, hoping for a fix. You have the power in your own hands when you come to linux.
@@askeladden450 People really underestimate the value of a good bug report. I had a graphical bug in Borderlands 3, no idea what was causing it except it only happened in DX12 (VKD3D) and not DX11 (DXVK). I reported it in the VKD3D-proton repo (issue #1282 if anyone is curious) and it got fixed within a couple weeks. Ended up being a really weird shader that needed a calculation that was less precise on Windows so it caused a rounding error.
Troubleshooting seems similar in any other environment. In Windows you can also hack, delete, reinstall and block if you competitive enough. Funny, if each does that effort what they did in linux, windows would be polished and well working, definitely with that powerful hardware.
The same happened to me, im a civil engineer and i love the arch linux and hyprland workflow, but unfortunately autocad and revit is not supported at all, not even with wine or bottles, i hope more companies started making software compatible with linux
i think you missing something like 32bit driver, 32bit graphic driver is needed for running old games. and that's why you likely got some bug when running in old game. if you using arch there's new scripts called nvidia-inst which you can install the script through yay and running in terminal "nvidia-inst --32" the scripts is do it everything for you. , if you're not installing 32bit driver the system likely running the game using CPU/igpu. at least that's my experiance when i forgot to install 32bit driver.
I have yet to work up the courage to daily arch but I have been dailying manjaro with a 3080 for about a year. My biggest piece of advice: don't be afraid of flatpacks. I had OBS and Davinci Resolve issues as well and installing the flatpack versions of both completely solved it. I know there is drawbacks and the elitists will tell you that you are wasting storage space and leaving performance on the table but at the end of the day, sometimes it's nice when something just works.
One suggestion is to use iGPU for the desktop and your dGPU for programs that truly need it. Ryzen 7950x should have an iGPU. Should fix most of your graphical glitches.
I actually thought of doing this, but I'm not sure if the iGPU can render two 4k 160hz monitors, which is the setup I used during the making of this video.
@@Livakivi I think it should be able to render two 4k@160 monitors, however problem becomes how you connect it to the MoBo, as HDMI is only 2.0, which can only do 4k@60, and I'm not sure about the USB-C DP alt mode, that your MoBo supports. Might be interesting to take a look into.
I have used the same Arch install for almost four years now, and I have never had an update break my core functionality. But daily driving it, and keeping it up to date helps, if AUR packages stop getting updates I replace them with something else and my window manager and terminal are very solid and minimal dwm/st/dmenu not really anything that can break there.
@@pyrogenic I said this jokingly, but to be honest, Nixos is probably one of the best distros for him. I've been following his videos for a long time and his systems always break for some reason, but Nixos would be a distro immune to all these problems.
I installed Arch because of the meme. I was actually shocked when I saw how clean the base system is compared to other distros. You really can do whatever the hell you want with it.
hi Liva, I like this video series but I am also wondering if you will make anything to do with japanese again? I would love some more immersion material
I might make a video related to learning Japanese again soon, not sure if I'll continue the Alice series on my second channel before 2025 though, but will see.
I just watched your 3 videos of trying and I absolutely loves to hear your thoughts and problems(?) haha. This one even gave the inspiration to try out Arch just for the sake of doing it for fun. I would like to see you trying the Fedora Atomic desktop, specially the Universal Blue ones I've using them for months and this the definitive Linux experience for me. Things rarely break, other people should have a very similar system to yours (actually identical image) and it's really sooo easy to rollback if needed.
Arch is not all that unstable or easy to break. Really, I find it to be fairly reliable. It also has some of the best documentation out there. My only gripe is with the setup instructions. They are on one hand overly verbose in some parts that I think barely anyone really cares about, while on the other it is really easy to miss an important step, because it's either just hidden away in a half-sentence somewhere, or burrowed under cross-reference after cross-reference. And I'd like to think this used to be better like ... ten years ago or so. But once it's installed, it's smooth sailing for the most part.
How about NixOS? It's suppose to have the biggest library and you can always go to the state of the system before update? I'm now thinking to change my Windows machine to it.
As an arch veteran (like vietnam veteran, severely injured, and with heavy ptsd) and gentoo user, nice job. Good too see newbies gettin' into the art of linux. After you fellas get some experience try gpu passthrough with a vm for all your favorite games that are windows only (except riot games's games)
9:52 Technically that wouldn’t be a ddos attack because the first d means it has to be distributed. So even if you were sending huge packets it would still be just a normal dos attack
I personally use ZFS as a filesystem of choice. This implies, that I have to monitor my kernel version closely. Then I install minimal distro, install yay and only THEN I install the rest of apps I need including desktop environment and whatnot. I'm ok with minimal KDE, and sddm (with additional graphic designs you can install separately). Last years I've used Linux inside VM on Windows (VMWare have support for 3D, which is crucial for linux apps), I haven't tried gaming or video editing though.
On other comment regarding the screen tearing in X11. This can happen when you have multiple monitors as X11 sees all your monitors as one giant monitor and refreshes across all of them as if it was one monitor. You can fix this by enabling in the nvidia-settings application to force pipeline compositing. That seems to help a lot, but it can cause latency which might affect your gaming experience adversely, especially for FPS online games. Wayland at least can refresh each monitor separately which is why I'm on Wayland with my nVidia GPU (GTX-1660) with the latest 560 open source kernel modules. Gaming is great, but I also don't do online FPS shooters. I'm more of a single-player gamer myself. But that's why X11 causes screen tearing for many people who have multiple monitors. Another option is to disable all but one monitor so that X11 only sees just the one monitor. This can be done using the xrandr command. When I was on older nVidia drivers under Linux over a year ago, Wayland was way to buggy at the time, so I just used X11 and the xrandr command to display all but the monitor I used for gaming. Then, when I was done, I would re-enable all of the monitors. That was until I discovered enabling the Force Composition Pipeline setting. That allowed me to have all monitors running and not have screen tearing. Triple buffering can help as well, but again, that can cause even more latency if you cannot afford it. But now, nVidia has vastly improved their drivers (at least for me) that I use Wayland now and I do not use X11 at all.
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I just discovered a fix for the crackling audio in DaVinci Resolve!
Whilst I was finishing up this video, apparently someone found a (potential?) fix on the DaVinci Resolve forum.
Note, I haven't tried this out extensively yet, but I recorded a few short clips that were fine:
- Make sure DaVinci Resolve is using PulseAudio ALSA, if its using Pipewire, you'll get no output.
- To fix the crackling, go to Video and Audio I/O settings, and put "Playback Processing Buffer" to 1024, and "Record Buffer Size" to 6.
This increases the latency a bit, but it shouldn't be a big issue for most people.
Now if it only weren't for the mysterious random "Loading Projects" issue. I'm not really sure what causes it considering that on Fedora 39, I don't remember having that issue.
@@Livakivi that is great to hear. I assume the outro about linux is not usable for you is still true, but I have found another fix for the codec issues. Davinci Resolve does support av1 decoding and the opus audio codec, with that you can use Davinci without blowing up your file sizes.
Pretty interessting fix, just not sure if it is applicable to you
>Issues fixing themselves after some amount of time for seemingly no obvious reason
We take those
It'd be great if BMD would support the modern standards on the Linux desktop. Y'know, them being Pipewire and Wayland.
Rocky Linux is eventually going to change that since they want to remain in parity with RHEL, and RHEL is removing X11 from their next release IIRC.
But hey, I'm not a customer, so who am I to ask.
ForceCompositionPipeline=On fixes tearing, however creating a working x11 config is nightmare
I use Kdenlive personally
I was sent a picture of myself therefore I comment
I thought you comment because Arch Linux is in the title :p
Thank you for hosting Arch for all of the Ozzies! 🙏
@@JustVoylin (and hyprland)
@@Livakivi I wonder how many people actually think you're serious
brodie please teach this man the magic of making videos on arch!
As a software dev, the Arch wiki is one of the best documentations I've ever seen considering the amount it covers. The only things that come close are Apple's documentation for Swift, the MDN, and *maybe* Java's docs
Arch is the way. Even when I do jump into something else when I run into issues the Arch wiki is usually a first stop. The side notes and recommendations resolve most problems.
If you think Arch wiki is good documentation then you haven't even seen the Gentoo one. It is unironically 10x better than the Arch one. The install guide teaches you most of what you should know about how a linux distro installation works.
The Arch Wiki was the reason I went Arch in 2013. It constantly came up in google searches and I thought if the wiki is so good the distro can't be bad.
It is really weird reading that, considering that they even fail to include archinstall in the installation documentation.
@@anj000 which is an intentional decision on their part
20:32 it's so funny how small Linux world is, you have picked my config
guess it wasn't a bad idea to share it after all :)
looks good, can I get it somewhere ?
@@PixelHamster it's 'win10-style-waybar' (I swear any way I try to give a source my coment gets autodeleted)
@@TheFrankyDoll Thank you for sharing and yeah, youtube loves autodeleting comments with any sort of links. I think they even remove comments with yt links :D
@@taahaseois.8898 yeah we still have bots but at least they don't send links anymore...
You are super cool bro if you made that
Holy cow he did it, only 3 weeks later too. Keep it up man
I really want to try and recreate this, I have similar specs
@@mucookul you should go through the comments and fix the mistakes he made though lol. should be a much smoother experience.
As someone who has experience with dual booting Windows with Linux, Windows making partitions read only is probably because you have fast startup enabled, which sort of hibernates certain parts of the system to make your Windows boot a lot faster (or when you shut down Windows improperly and haven't run chkdsk in Windows or ntfsfix under Linux, it can also make the Windows partition read only). You should disable fast startup feature in Windows to have less issues dual booting.
They do all that stuf and still taking more time than any linux distro to boot.
There should be no issues if you install Linux distro on a separated hard drive instead alongside Windows
@@oranieldias ntfs moment
@@sher1x165
Wrong. This is where UEFI comes into play - windows boot loader interacts weirdly with the UEFI. Best thing for dual booting is to not do it, it creates weird problems caused by Windows
@@oranieldias At least it works... That's a fair trade-off imo
26:45 WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator.
The use of the word "emulating" has hurt my Arch Linux user BTW soul and I don't think I will recover from it.
Recursive, just like GNU... Very strange
Yeah... same... like it would be 10x slower if it was Emulation.
Just mature. You'll eventually get there. 😊
It is. Wine simulate windows thus creating its directories, also it run directx, so, yeap.
@@QuinceyEvans-h8q Can people please do research before they pretend to be an expert on the internet?
"Emulation" mean's "Hardware Emulation"... Wine doesn't do any of that!
I'm currently at 20 minutes, but fyi, the archinstall script is named in the text you cleared in when you boot in the archinstall iso.
lol
@@LivakiviYeah, and to see the text after clearing you could have just pressed Ctrl-D or typed exit
They should put it in the install guide on the arch wiki tbh
@@mightycoderx IIRC "cat /etc/motd" should also do it
@@gkcadadr yeah if it is the motd that's better, thanks
The only take away from these "linux challenge" youtube videos is that davinci resolve for linux sucks.
Yeah lol BMD pretends to care and then doesn't actually do
Almost every time that's the thing that the youtubers get hung up on. Curious that the ONE THING that they need for making the videos is the thing that most often doesn't work, which leads to almost every LInux experimentation video making it look bad. Sigh.
@@Vitor-vy4dy i do get it, they're personally invested in that because of their whole youtube thing
Kind of you need 32 gb of ram. It will run with less but....
@@Vitor-vy4dy I mean, its not their fault. this is their livelihood and passion. I think the real take away is that its sad that most creatives rely on proprotery software, especially when so much art is about social messaging, and their being horribly exploited by companys like adobe. I mean ffs adobe skims your art to train there ai.
Wow, I wasn't expecting another Linux video so soon. Awesome work.
Very tasteful use of memes, not too little, not too much
For a power user like me, linux was always a DIY system, and arch just enables me to have more control over things, and keeps things modular, so fixing stuff is easier, or whats even more important, actually possible.
Arch is not for everyone, and thats a good thing, gives other distros things they can improve upon, targeting a completely different user base.
Am I proud of using arch? No. Do I care about x11 vs wayland, pipewire vs pulseaudio? No. I just use what works for me, based on advantages/disadvatages and problems Ive encountered.
OS is just an OS. I just need a system that works the way I want it to, and be able to troubleshoot it myself.
You caught me off guard with that Sonic Adventure clip at 8:10. I knew you were one of our people (why I subbed), but damn, you really are one of our people.
Unexpected, but highly appreciated. Always love the stuff you make, keep it up Livakivi. 🔥❤
Unexpected as in I wasn't expecting a video
I was really hoping that using arch would be the turning point in the livas linux arc. Anyways, this was a really entertaining series
This kind of trouble shooting is a real pain to go through, but I find it very useful. I was a windows 11 users totally fed up with the OS for various reasons. I decided to give Linux Mint a shot and I love it so far. There have been issues but I have been able to trouble shoot them and the troubleshooting has been less frustrating than Windows 11. I think the best OS probably depends on your knowledge, your goals, and the amount of time you have. I think it will be awhile before I'm trying Arch after seeing what you went through.
I am really REALLY surprised you got a 36 minute video out in 3 weeks. Keep up the good upload schedule👍
Genuinely surprised you’ve got this many issues with your setup. I’ve got a 3090, and stuff literally just worked after I installed Linux Mint.
Really hope whatever issues you were having will someday be resolved!
I think that the 4090 has quirks and the amount of linux desktop users, that own a 4090 and is capable of fixing the issues are... Non existent
@@timonix2 I have a 4090, and also user hyprland. I don't bother with the real arch though, endeavouros has reasonable defaults for everything, and I had my play at complex distro installs with gentoo for a few years.
The difference is, Mint Just Works™ but Arch is the Linux where you, specifically, must make things work yourself.
I just swapped from Mint to Arch this week, btw.
Mint is, as others have said, the distro that Just Works.
because its Minx its distribution that well most things works that's whole point some distributions The are more user friendly and easier to use even without much knowledge of how things work
I am a long time linux user.
As long as this X11 to Wayland transition is still going on there will be painpoints.
Wine games using only wayland is still being worked on.
Jetbrains for example only recently introduced wayland experimentally.
No idea what Black magic is doing.
So it's pretty much unusable unless you come back in a decade, got it.
Ive been using Hyprland for over a year, and I would like to add, what in the world is Steam doing? It feels incredibly laggy and everytime you close a window there's a 50% chance the entire program just freezes for a solid minute...?
Everything else I use works just fine, though. I even set electron apps like discord to use wayland natively and it works pretty much flawlessly.
IntelliJ works fine. All the games I play work fine, including under Proton.
Resolve I couldn't get to work, though I didn't try much, because I already had it installed on another distro so I just used that because I didn't need it much.
@@w花b Yeah that’s a problem. Also I’m using hyprland on my Linux test bench and I can’t copy and paste long ass terminal commands from a web browser to Kitty terminal. On Ubuntu using GNOME 46 it works perfectly fine on Wayland so idk what’s going on
@@w花b That's such a disingenuous interpretation of what OP said, holy shit. Wayland works fine for many people already and has for a while, it really depends on what software you use. I've not had any major issues since 2021 with Plasma desktop and I do both gaming with/without Wine and development with Jetbrains IDEs.
@@w花bOnly issues I have had with wayland was discord and nvidia otherwise nothing for discord I swapped to using vencord and my nvidia issues don't happen anymore.
I'm pretty experienced with installing operating systems, but partitioning scares me so much that i usually unplug other disks during installation.
It was the DIY stuff that attracted me to Arch. I'm still fairly new at it and I haven't completely decided if it's for me. But I love that I have to learn and use the tools given to me to solve my problems. The documentation is good, though a bit daunting because it assumes you have a certain level of understanding already.
It's taught me a lot about how Linux works and how to solve problems. I've used Linux before but never too much. I decided to jump off the deep end and not be afraid of making mistakes, giving myself an environment just to learn. If it works out, my next PC will be Arch.
i am loving your Linux series and series of other TH-camrs testing stuff on linux and telling their experience, as new or experienced users
I use CachyOS, an Arch distro, and I've had no problems installing it or using it. It even installs multimedia and game support packages if you want to install them. The only configuration issues I had were just a learning curve on my part, which is natural when switching from Windows. I've updated it frequently as well, and have had no problems.
I love watching your Linux videos they really give an honest overlook of them. Weirdly I would literally be fine jumping to Linux it seems as my workflow is literally just word-processing and internet browsing. Just too lazy to grt around to it yet lol
The japanese game didnt launch because you dont have the japanese language fonts installed
I had all the fonts from macOS + Windows as I transferred them from those PCs, which were used to render websites and such as well. The game also uses a very custom Japanese font which should definitely be installed with the game, and the game did work with Proton. I'm assuming that there's just some incompatibility with the Unity export for the Japanese version or something, there's a chance that they never properly tested the Japanese Linux version.
@Livakivi ah good point. Thats a big issue with Native Linux games since they are usually an afterthought and not as well maintained. Plus there is the issue of Linux ABI rapidly changing meaning that linux games stop working unless constantly maintained. Wine is much more stable in this regard.
@@AndRei-yc3ti The API changes are pretty unfortunate, especially for larger applications such as Resolve, which is why it makes sense that they'd choose a stable distro such as Rocky or CentOS and only offer official support for those.
@@Livakivi I personally think that the japanese locale was not generated because archinstall by default only installs english locale
@@Tamtam-hh3xv Yeah you need to uncomment the jp line and do a locale-gen, then make sure it actually runs with it. I use Lutris to set the locale for visual novels.
Feels like this year many youtubers made videos about trying Linux. I'm glad it get that kind of attention and common issues will be fixed! (looking at you davinci resolve!)
Most of the trouble ive ever had in Arch was due to Hyprland not arch itself. Arch is pretty rock solid like any other distro honestly.
8:55 LOL I remember this. I literally updated my system just to get immediately kicked to my system's UEFI and I remember just saying "what the fuck." The fix for this was to just boot a live install, mount the EFI partition, and update Grub with the latest version, but it did catch me off guard.
Arch is a great distribution. It is the one that has offered me the most stability on Linux, believe it or not, but I have had the exact same experience as you when it comes to having to put in so much time into it became a little bit of a burden, especially at the beginning. I don't remember where I heard this from, but it's still true to this day: "Linux is good if you don't value your time." Cosmic is super promising, and it has been good enough for me with my development workflow so I've been daily driving it since the alpha release.
Great video as always, Liva.
It's kind of a magical experience because when I first started Linux, it was breaking quite literally every other week. And I didn't even really change anything. I wasn't feeling like I was learning much. But over time, I must have gotten better because I've had the same operating system for like a year now. And it doesn't have any issues. And the performance is much better than Windows or macos
Use timeshift to back up your system. It is very easy to do
Please continue this series, you are the only channel helping me to cope for the disappearance of Luke Smith from TH-cam.
Yeh Luke was a gem he taught things so clearly
You are definitely my favorite TH-camr right now - I've never had this, but you make me want to make TH-cam videos. It's so cool to see a TH-camr that just makes videos about whatever they're doing/interested in. I've probably watched every one of your videos by now (except your LoL one, sorry 😅)
Yes! He also inspired me to pursue my interests and develop a few hobbies... Before that I was a doomscroller lol
OOhhh I've been waiting for this! hahah
Btw, I use Arch but didn't get my cult invitation yet....
You got the invitation and your incantation "i use arch btw" is you accepting it :)
@@bramgn ah I see, been saying 'Btw, I use arch' everyone, got the order messed up 😅
The crackling audio is almost definitely an audio buffer issue. That said, like you mention in the video, every time you try to do something new in Linux, there's the risk that it's going to break. There'll inevitably be some graphics bug or an update that'll break a workaround.
Flatpak is all well and good until it isn't and you're trying to use Flatseal to give an application access to various system locations in hopes that you'll be able to solve the problem.
I want so very badly to use Linux as a daily driver. I adore the flexibility and open nature that usually means if you can see it, you can modify it, and in the case of Arch, it's documented in the official wiki. I did try running my Windows install within QEMU inside of Arch and interfacing with it via Looking Glass, which worked perfectly, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt like I was hamstringing Windows and Linux at the same time by having to pin CPU cores for one OS or the other, and thereby only making my own life harder.
Try CachyOS is a arch-based distro that inproves performance and optimization
Thank you very much! I'm definitely curious about Cachy as I've heard a lot of good things about it!
Also, sorry for the delayed response, I never got a notification for the comment.
The only thing holding linux back is software and graphical bugs D:
Yup, the only thing holding me back being a world class athlete is not being athletic.
Actually, just software, because wayland would solve the graphical issues already
you're holding yourself back using proprietary software
Hot take: The only thing holding linux back is people unwilling to learn or understand more about computers.
Though the points in this video were quite valid.
True @@commander3494
If Windows, Mac OS and Linux do not work, create your own operating system.
Do you know that BSD, Haiku & other Operating Systems exist? 🤔
A good take in theory but Liva wouldn't like it because it would take to MUCH TIME.
@@Rockpat I bet theses won't even work for him, every single operating system he used ended up breaking.
Plus I was not serious.
TempleOS moment
With the help of God
@@adamantris2 We need Jonathan Blow to create an OS
Installing from the Wiki is the one true way - so many people follow random, out-of-date video tutorials, then complain when things break. Good on you for putting in the work up front!
What I found nice during my try of Arch Linux was that even if after update everything broke (which happened once in 2 months running it as my primary OS), it is easy to roll back before update
Unfortunately I wanted to dual boot Windows and Linux and for some reason after those two months, Windows started digging into GRUB loader of my Arch Linux and made it unusable. And I need Windows still for some programs that just do not have a good counterpart on Linux and/or running those Win-only programs in virtual env in Linux was a bug-filled hassle, not worth the pain and time.
So back to the Windows for now. But Linux is very close to becoming OS I would run daily without issues, just a few more years maybe
Windows breaking GRUB (and other bootloaders) is an unfortunately very common issue that is only getting worse since Microsoft keeps pushing updates that break them in some way (despite saying that they would do everything not to, specifically for GRUB). Such is one of the reasons a dual-boot on a single drive or simply on a drive shared with Windows is not recommended unless you absolutely have to.
If one really has no option but to dual-boot like this, however, there is always the option of installing the desired bootloader on a USB drive or SD card when wanting to boot into Linux, and thus, Windows would not break it. I use this on my HP 250 G6 laptop that dual-boots Windows 10 and Debian 12; Though I fortunately do not have to do such a thing on my main computer, which only runs NixOS.
On a completely unrelated note, you have an adorable profile picture.
@@atemoc Yeah I hate windows for messing with other loaders like this, but I still need to use win sometimes, so it is a shame. Using a loader from USB drive would solve this issue, so thank you for that suggestion! It unfortunately means, that I have to keep USB with loader always there or so, since I need Windows for some work in only 5-10% of the time, but still
And thank you so much
@@atemoc Out of curiosity, why do you NixOS on only one of your systems? Doesn't that kind-of go against the point? I assume you can get the benefits of immutability with read-only btrfs snapshots without the extra hassle.
Davinci gets stuck due to some gtk libraries; deleting the gtk2 libraries in the Davinci installation directory fixes the startup issue. It is not a Hyprland issue but more like a GTK2 and Wayland compatibility issue from what I've seen. Can't remember where I found the solution but I followed it and it worked flawlessly for me while using Manjaro KDE Wayland. Betting the fix mentioned works just fine in Hyprland.
As far as your drive being locked out due to improper closure of Windows is exactly what happened. Kind of like a preemptive resource lock for faster access concerning read and write ops - essentially the drive was never "unmounted" by Windows or released.
The music together with the terminal window installation being so easy and rewarding gave flashbacks to playing muds 30 years ago.
Dang man, cool to see you trying again but wish you had listened to your comment section on the last video or watched a install video because wayland on nvidia is very hit or miss and you were encouraged to stick with X11, and you forgot to install multilib during the archinstall, more repositories, and skipped over it. Still fun to see more Linux content but you are really trying to do this on hard mode which obviously makes it harder on yourself.
Edit* My comment sounds negative but I didn't mean it to, I just want you(and others) to have the best experience. The video is still really good and I appreciated the quality content, so thank you my dude!
hearing dnb/jungle in a linux video is something i never expected, for a moment i thought spotify started playing music on its own. great video btw!
You used archinstall and didn’t configure hyprland, yes it was doomed from the start.
But at least you were willing to try arch Linux, I daily drive it with a similar setup to you. Been daily driving for about a year.
Good luck for the future!
Dame a livakivi video drop on my b day sick
Happy birthday!
As a linux user I can confirm that it is a cult.
The First rule about the cult:
We don't talk about the cult.
Stop talk about the culto! 😡😡😡😡😡😡
@@FodaseGoogreorio-h7v Clube da luta = Linux
@@FodaseGoogreorio-h7v As an arch user, this is definitely not a cult, there is no cult to be seen here, no cult at all.....
@@SergioEduPI USE ARCH, BTW! Shit, it happened again.
Arch has a fantastic wiki. When I have an issue with whatever distro I'm using, the Arch wiki has the solution to whatever is troubling me because an Arch user has already encountered that problem.
That's the nicest way I can say Arch shouldn't be used by anyone but the most masochistic of aspires looking for the most tedious, inefficient, and painful way to flagellate themselves.
NixOs for part 4?
Best distro I've ever used personally.
Even on nixpkgs-unstable, with all the problems that may come with that (usually "fixed" by delaying nix flake update by a couple of days-week 😅), I haven't had a complete breakage of my system ONCE.
And I love the fact I can configure pretty much everything through a functional programming language, with custom-made abstraction layers that make it easier to define things down the line (I built my own keybind solution for zellij recently, and goddam it's so much nicer to define now compared to the default way of doing it (keys sometimes have to be strings with escaped strings inside (cuz nix->kdl conversion works like that), and just looks ugly and hard to read). The language itself could be better (lazy evaluation hinders the performance/usability of LSPs), but it's still a DIY heaven (I tried guix as well, but it doesn't have as many packages as nix, and finding tooling to support Guille didn't bear much fruit + I'm not a huge fan of LISP/schema personally).
And all that can be just stored in git (or any vcs) repo, literally an almost complete backup of your entire setup in less than 1Gb (very generous estimate) 99% of the time (depending on how much you store there ofc (like media, secret keys, dotfiles etc)).
The best part - it all can be mixed-and-matched for multiple machine setups, so you can have your setup perfectly synced between all you nixos-driven devices, with hardware/purpose-related differences.
Sorry for the rant, have a nice day😅
Legit first watched this for the first time the day after it came out, and then installed Arch on my new laptop as my daily driver the day after I watched this. It was mostly easy to move since I can use open-source alternatives of Office apps (or MS Office online if sharing/cooperating is important), I already use open source video editors, and I don't play multiplayer games (so no fears of anti-cheat). Linux is great for programming and casual tasks. I also have development experience in Linux for 2 years (website deployment, WSL, Docker, an OS course, and running remote ML models viw SSH), so no fears about having to relearn the terminal either here.
Aside from some apps of secondary/tertiary importance being borked (probably due to a misconfiguration), and not knowing whether I like GNOME or KDE (the only DEs that currently support Wayland, which is important for an easier time with multi-monitor support and future-proofing), I've had a great experience overall this past week.
Linux is free so you can pay your therapist.
Funny seeing this video after 2 days of fighting my computer trying to install Arch. I finished yesterday afternoon. Idk how long it will last before I break it, but I learned SO MUCH about file structures and the Linux architecture. Hell, I even learned a ton about how bootloaders work. I've never been a Linux power user, but now I feel a lot more comfortable digging through directories and editing configuration files. 10/10.
"Disk encryption... いらねぇ"
Very relatable, lol
I will say, I would normally advise against using archinstall. The benefit of actually installing the system yourself is that you learn how everything fits together, which makes fixing potential future problems a lot easier.
And while I wouldn't say that things breaking is particularly common, it does happen. In the ten or so years I've been using Arch, I ended up with an unbootable system after an update maybe three times. And once time my keyboard stopped working, which is about the same severity, lol. (That particular problem was a bug in the kernel and downgrading fixed it. Two kernel versions later it was also fixed there)
yup, my first experience with Arch has been installing it first with a video to a USB (for some reason), and then later to a machine using the Wiki, but now after installing it like 3 times manually I think I will use archinstall on my new install, as I think I know what Im doing XD
The sonic music is incredible, Nice vid!
YOU ACTUALLY DID IT. WHAT. THE. HELL. 0:12
Yea, new video, always glad to see your content
Every time I start to feel like I want to try linux again a new video of yours comes out and it reminds me of all the issues and time-waste and I postpone it for another year or two. So thanks for effectively saving my time!
you'll never know if it works for you and your workflow/specific software needs if you never try it again.
boot up a live usb to try it out for a while before committing to it.
The only issues I've had in ~2yrs were pretty much user error, x11 limitations(no Wayland yet because Nvidia), or very occasional software compatibility issues. I had a lot more issues on Windows than Linux ever gave me, and it would have been even less with different hardware. Only way to know for your workflow and hardware is to try Linux yourself.
Yeah that's just cause arch is enthusiast level shit, I've been using linux for like 18 years and despite all that experience I still main linux mint. Just pick a stable, user-friendly distro (ideally something debian-based) and use the graphical tools and you'll be fine.
that was an interesting video, it documents your journey well, l'ets hope those issues are fixed in a futur attempt
I am very surprised you never tried kde plasma. It's very customizable sometimes the desktop is a bit buggy but all software I've tried in plasma just works. It can also dynamically tile with a kwin script. Kde arch is the year of the Linux desktop for me.
Also currently the only way to get HDR on Linux
Pro tip: do a few manual installs, configure it, see what breaks, get familiar with it. Then automate your install/configuration with either scripts, Ansible (that's what I do) or nix (my next TODO). That way you'll always be able to refer back to your setup and run it if something breaks, not to mention fresh reinstall if needed.
New livakivi video, what a great day. I'm excited
Thanks for posting the music tracks, goes hard!
22:48 because of the video you made (this one), it might be fixed
it was commented by Brodie Robertson, who reacted to your video, and Vaxry, the developer of Hyprland, saw Brodie's video and commented that the error was closed because it was related to some old stuff but that he thought there was an open issue to fix that, and that if it wasnt the case he would be fine with solving that if someone opens an issue and if it is fixable somehow
its a tldr, might not be understandable because im bad at summarizing lol
You just saved my morning! Thank you very much Livakivi!
Edit: For a minute I thought Debian Testing/Sid might be an option, because that would just be Arch/Fedora with more stable packages. But yes, Cosmic might actually help with lots of things. It's like RISC-V in that it doesn't come with nearly as much compatibility "bloat" because it's a complete rewrite. Though it will still use Wayland, so I guess I'll just wait for your Cosmic video! :D
Man that 4090 just keeps ruining your day.
This reopens all the wounds I'm somehow gotten to be fine with each day :D Got the flashbacks of dealing with each one of your issues but changing my workflow instead of the software since I didn't have to use video editing stuff
Good video, it was really sobering to see that Arch didn't really solve anything in the end (I've personally never had any issues with it, but then again I don't use video editing software or Nvidia) and that even an hour more wasted on fiddling with your system was becoming too much, since I'm guilty of spending many many hours on this instead of getting school work done.
Also for Anki, have you tried using the qt5 version from the website directly? I have no idea what the differences from the existing Arch packages are but I'm not using either the flatpak version or any of the Arch Linux package versions of Anki so you saying that you had to use the flatpak version caught my attention since I was under the impression that the Arch package binaries were basically the same as the static version I installed about 2 years ago (qt5 v2.1.54). Sorry for the 'it works on my machine' comment but anyways, once again, epic video
spending hours on this over school helped me become more successful than I could ever imagine. don't feel guilty.
I remember not too long ago commenting that you should try this but here we are!
Did you force full composition pipeline? That's one of the most suggested configs to solve screen tearing in linux
Don't force comp on Nvidia+X11*: it still has a nasty bug where some software (mostly Proton, so 90+ percent average Steam library) will render at a frame in minutes and lock up while rendering in fullscreen. Big reason I adapted to Wayland, and in most cases you shouldn't need to force comp on Wayland
*I know the vid he specifically uses Wayland
I see you've changed your editing style a bit, I really like it 👍
Honestly, you could have avoided a lot of these issues had you just gone AMD. Seriously. I know, performance isn't quite up to par with Nvidia and you had an Nvidia card already, but, the drivers in AMD are much better in terms of compatibility with the distro and the multiple DEs.
Watching videos like this always makes me feel like I'm living in some kind of different universe than people who make Linux transition TH-cam videos. I think the worst issue I've had in four years of running Fedora on my main gaming desktop system was having to disable the compositor when gaming back when I still used X11 and Nvidia.
I have an RTX 3080 and I have the exact same issues, one to one, in minute detail. People don't believe me, because their system "just works", and they can't recreate it, and say I did something wrong.
I hope someone higher-up watches this video and understands what are the real problems of switching to Linux, and not arbitrary things like "I can't live without this software or games". I'm happy to reboot to Windows for those apps and games.
There is no 'higher-ups' in linux lol. Go to the developers and report the issue properly instead of talking to randos on the internet. If it was me having this issue, it would have been solved ages ago. New users really need to get out of the corporate mindset, hoping for a fix. You have the power in your own hands when you come to linux.
Try opensuse tumbleweed. For my Gaming pc with rtx 3080 i use opensuse. Without Problems. Lutris and steam are working Fine.
@@askeladden450 People really underestimate the value of a good bug report. I had a graphical bug in Borderlands 3, no idea what was causing it except it only happened in DX12 (VKD3D) and not DX11 (DXVK). I reported it in the VKD3D-proton repo (issue #1282 if anyone is curious) and it got fixed within a couple weeks. Ended up being a really weird shader that needed a calculation that was less precise on Windows so it caused a rounding error.
Troubleshooting seems similar in any other environment. In Windows you can also hack, delete, reinstall and block if you competitive enough.
Funny, if each does that effort what they did in linux, windows would be polished and well working, definitely with that powerful hardware.
That is some good editing!
HE FINALLY DID IT! As I am typing this right now I am on my laptop which is running arch linux on hyprland. Massive W.
I really cant give up on my riced up tiling WM xD hyprland is just too good ..
Hehe, I'm typing from a Steam Deck oled running vanilla Arch with Hyprland :P
@@commander3494 Cool Setup
The same happened to me, im a civil engineer and i love the arch linux and hyprland workflow, but unfortunately autocad and revit is not supported at all, not even with wine or bottles, i hope more companies started making software compatible with linux
Yesterday rewatching part 2 and wondering if he ever tried arch lol
I love your videos, because they always convince me not to follow that urge to install Linux again (because I always have these same issues too.)
i think you missing something like 32bit driver, 32bit graphic driver is needed for running old games. and that's why you likely got some bug when running in old game. if you using arch there's new scripts called nvidia-inst which you can install the script through yay and running in terminal "nvidia-inst --32" the scripts is do it everything for you. , if you're not installing 32bit driver the system likely running the game using CPU/igpu. at least that's my experiance when i forgot to install 32bit driver.
I have yet to work up the courage to daily arch but I have been dailying manjaro with a 3080 for about a year. My biggest piece of advice: don't be afraid of flatpacks. I had OBS and Davinci Resolve issues as well and installing the flatpack versions of both completely solved it. I know there is drawbacks and the elitists will tell you that you are wasting storage space and leaving performance on the table but at the end of the day, sometimes it's nice when something just works.
One suggestion is to use iGPU for the desktop and your dGPU for programs that truly need it. Ryzen 7950x should have an iGPU. Should fix most of your graphical glitches.
I actually thought of doing this, but I'm not sure if the iGPU can render two 4k 160hz monitors, which is the setup I used during the making of this video.
@@Livakivi I think it should be able to render two 4k@160 monitors, however problem becomes how you connect it to the MoBo, as HDMI is only 2.0, which can only do 4k@60, and I'm not sure about the USB-C DP alt mode, that your MoBo supports. Might be interesting to take a look into.
@@Livakivi so you still on fedora or on windows now?
I have used the same Arch install for almost four years now, and I have never had an update break my core functionality.
But daily driving it, and keeping it up to date helps, if AUR packages stop getting updates I replace them with something else and my window manager and terminal are very solid and minimal dwm/st/dmenu not really anything that can break there.
Next step: NixOS
Nix crowd, gather up
then gentoo, then void
@@pewgarpolls those would be downgrades
People realised Arch wasn't difficult enough to stop others from trying it, so they started using NixOS instead
@@pyrogenic I said this jokingly, but to be honest, Nixos is probably one of the best distros for him. I've been following his videos for a long time and his systems always break for some reason, but Nixos would be a distro immune to all these problems.
I installed Arch because of the meme. I was actually shocked when I saw how clean the base system is compared to other distros. You really can do whatever the hell you want with it.
hi Liva, I like this video series but I am also wondering if you will make anything to do with japanese again? I would love some more immersion material
I might make a video related to learning Japanese again soon, not sure if I'll continue the Alice series on my second channel before 2025 though, but will see.
@@Livakivi thanks 😃
I just watched your 3 videos of trying and I absolutely loves to hear your thoughts and problems(?) haha. This one even gave the inspiration to try out Arch just for the sake of doing it for fun.
I would like to see you trying the Fedora Atomic desktop, specially the Universal Blue ones I've using them for months and this the definitive Linux experience for me. Things rarely break, other people should have a very similar system to yours (actually identical image) and it's really sooo easy to rollback if needed.
The video starts at 0:01
thanks mate
"Not all heroes" etc.
thanks for the timestamp
WHAT?!!?
And it ends at 36:09
Arch is not all that unstable or easy to break. Really, I find it to be fairly reliable. It also has some of the best documentation out there. My only gripe is with the setup instructions. They are on one hand overly verbose in some parts that I think barely anyone really cares about, while on the other it is really easy to miss an important step, because it's either just hidden away in a half-sentence somewhere, or burrowed under cross-reference after cross-reference. And I'd like to think this used to be better like ... ten years ago or so. But once it's installed, it's smooth sailing for the most part.
watching on arch sway btw
Watching on Manjaro Sway, which is based on Arch btw
How about NixOS? It's suppose to have the biggest library and you can always go to the state of the system before update? I'm now thinking to change my Windows machine to it.
As an arch veteran (like vietnam veteran, severely injured, and with heavy ptsd) and gentoo user, nice job. Good too see newbies gettin' into the art of linux. After you fellas get some experience try gpu passthrough with a vm for all your favorite games that are windows only (except riot games's games)
9:52 Technically that wouldn’t be a ddos attack because the first d means it has to be distributed. So even if you were sending huge packets it would still be just a normal dos attack
idk how do you have so many problems
it just works out of the box for me
Main issues he has is with Davinci.
Everyone who says this never has current gen hardware (9xxx AMD / 14th Gen Intel, RTX 40xx Nvidia, 7xxx AMD).
@@user-el4su7tl6f I have a 7900 XTX and it just works out of the box lol
but yes, support for new products can be kinda slow at times
@@user-el4su7tl6f I have an RX 7700 XT, which I bought in November 2023. Never had a single issue on Arch Linux.
@@user-el4su7tl6f i have a 5900x and rtx 3080 which both were brand new when i got them
I personally use ZFS as a filesystem of choice. This implies, that I have to monitor my kernel version closely. Then I install minimal distro, install yay and only THEN I install the rest of apps I need including desktop environment and whatnot. I'm ok with minimal KDE, and sddm (with additional graphic designs you can install separately). Last years I've used Linux inside VM on Windows (VMWare have support for 3D, which is crucial for linux apps), I haven't tried gaming or video editing though.
I use NixOS, BTW
As the Japanese would say, you must be a do-M
I use NixOS BTW
cant wait for the gentoo video
Am I ever gonna use Arch? No.
Am I going to watch this video? Yes.
this is soo cool! thank you for the upload :)
I use NixOS, btw :)
On other comment regarding the screen tearing in X11. This can happen when you have multiple monitors as X11 sees all your monitors as one giant monitor and refreshes across all of them as if it was one monitor. You can fix this by enabling in the nvidia-settings application to force pipeline compositing. That seems to help a lot, but it can cause latency which might affect your gaming experience adversely, especially for FPS online games. Wayland at least can refresh each monitor separately which is why I'm on Wayland with my nVidia GPU (GTX-1660) with the latest 560 open source kernel modules. Gaming is great, but I also don't do online FPS shooters. I'm more of a single-player gamer myself. But that's why X11 causes screen tearing for many people who have multiple monitors. Another option is to disable all but one monitor so that X11 only sees just the one monitor. This can be done using the xrandr command. When I was on older nVidia drivers under Linux over a year ago, Wayland was way to buggy at the time, so I just used X11 and the xrandr command to display all but the monitor I used for gaming. Then, when I was done, I would re-enable all of the monitors. That was until I discovered enabling the Force Composition Pipeline setting. That allowed me to have all monitors running and not have screen tearing. Triple buffering can help as well, but again, that can cause even more latency if you cannot afford it.
But now, nVidia has vastly improved their drivers (at least for me) that I use Wayland now and I do not use X11 at all.
Rather just use windows
enjoy spyware adware and ransomware
@@wouldyouskibidi I use debloated windows BTW. Linux also has all that.
1:16 you look at the second sentence and ignore that WAYLAND [backend of hyprland] PRACTICALLY REQUIRES AMD