What is think is you should use pop os. It's a really beginner friendly and and gives you a very good understanding of linux. The apt package manager is really a stable one and is fun to use. Also the tiling window you really like is already present in the pop os. Just watch some tutorials if you want to rice it. And whatever, have fun.
Try Garuda Linux it has the best driver support I am using it right now actually if you want a Windows feeling environment the Cinnamon and XFCE are your friend but if you want LTS I would go for XFCE which looks like a modern futuristic retro based looking desktop environment let the system update and restart first BEFORE using features.
@stingfiretube if, and this is a big if, each of those instructions works perfectly, and the config files you use are well-maintained, then sure, maybe. But it's not easy in the way gnome or kde are easy.
@@Cookie_Department in case you're still having problems with screen share, using another client like waycord or vesktop along with xwaylandvideobridge makes it work just fine. Waycord also makes audio work during screenshares
Idk dude I’ve never had any problems with nvidia on Linux and Wayland outside of single gpu passthrough in virtual machines but that’s a whole different beast
I actually think it depends on the person. Sekiro can just 'click' for some people, just like dark souls can. They are very different games. Some people will have an easy time with one, and a hard time with the other.
“As a daily car driver I always wanted to fly on a plane. So I went to my local hardware store and bought some tools to create my first plane. It turned out that planes has different engines than cars do.” 😂😂😂
Choosing Arch as your first distro is like Harry Using the Nimbus 2000 as his first broom. It's like going into a real karate dojo and instantly being paired to kumite with blackbelts. It's like turning 21 and having RAW EVERCLEAR be your first liquor of choice.
Or like learning to drive in a Lamborghini you've assembled out of a kit, with wiki as your driving instructor. All things considered, I'd say you did really well!
Choosing Arch as your first distro is like setting the computer difficulty to very hard immediately after starting the game in order to turbo max your gainz. "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
@@albatross7 Then you should install gentoo. Arch is just having to do all of the basic maintenance on your first car yourself, but its also a manual car, and you dont know how to drive yet.
I switched from windows to ubuntu last week and everything worked flawlessly. From gaming to coding and also recording with OBS. Everything went without a hitch. Ubuntu might not be the most loved among the linux community, but I’m glad it runs without any of the issues that my peers had with their distros.
@@mihairomulus2488 I've been using ubuntu for the past almost 2 years in work and 6 months in my home pc, except when i play league (the i have a dual boot), and i feel like you can get around with everything you want with a litle touch of not having to recompile your os, also the support is amazing, bigger than any other distro. I think it is a pretty good distro overal, people only make fun of it because of not being complex and hard i think
You can do better than that and run the program through a utility called strace. strace will spill every system call the program makes as it tries to run. You're best off redirecting the output to a file that you can then examine. Because it's quite a scroll. Then filter the output for what you're looking for. Also those errors will be in the console you launched your window session from. But if you use a display manager you're out of luck. So that's most Linux users today. It sucks to be them.
@@stupidgeek Linux is like heroin, or any opiate. It's best not to try them, because once you get a taste, you realize everyone loves opiates, its just that they haven't tried yet.
DaVinci Resolve does not officially support Arch Linux. Like many proprietary software on Linux (for example, software from Autodesk, the Foundry, or SideFx), the officially supported distribution is Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its clones. Additionally, like many proprietary software, the way it is distributed is not the normal Linux way of packaging and distributing software. But even if it is not officially supported, it is Linux, and you can still install it on almost any distribution. It may be harder on some distributions because they may lack some dependencies by default, or some dependencies may not be at the version DaVinci Resolve requires. In my opinion, the easiest way to have DaVinci Resolve working on any distribution is to install it in a container using the program Distrobox with the DavinciBox image.
@@stupidgeek Yes, it's a bit confusing. On the download page of Resolve, it says that it supports Linux, but it's actually made for Red Hat or one of its clones like CentOS, Rocky Linux, or AlmaLinux. Technically, they are not wrong by just saying it works on Linux because it can be installed and work on almost any distro. However, by not specifying which distro their installer is made for, people download it thinking it will work out of the box on any distro. When it doesn't work, people inevitably think that Resolve is broken on Linux. And when it does not work out of the box, on most distros, you are on your own to figure out why it doesn't work and what to tweak to make it work
I think there are ways to run the installer on arch, i seen it pretty much just work on popos, debian, if anything requiring some package, it must work on arch too, just might require some extra steps.
@@asunavk69 @asunavk69 Yes, you can make it work on almost any distro even if it is not officially supported. On some distros, there are people who have already figured out how to make it work. Arch has a huge user base, and Resolve is very popular software, so there is always someone who figures out how to install Resolve. On some other distros, you are on your own, and sometimes there are multiple ways, like on Debian where there is a way to use the official installer and there is the way of MakeResolveDeb. Personally, I like to install it with Distrobox and DavinciBox because it will work on any distro as long as you can install Distrobox.
Usually people give up on something like linux mint or fedora after trying out linux. But bro just successfully installed Arch and even keeps using it 💀 Huge props
I think arch is good for people to understand more how linux works but It is a pain in the ass when some dependencies are missing or everything just crashs (edit, I use Arch btw with kde)
Yes, media creation can be a hassle. Working with FOSS solutions like Kdenlive is nice and works out of the box. However, for some people, these programs aren't feature-rich enough. Although I have to say, it's not entirely Linux's fault that some software on it is trash.
@stupidgeek tbh the i personally feel fault lies on the companies the ability to support linux is becoming easier and easier by the day so if a program doesnt work on linux its most likely bc a company made it that way but i feel that is also changing by the day. your decision is completely fair but i truly do believe that in just a couple years a program not being supported on linux will be a rarity with how things are going.
I just switched to Linux on by laptop as well. I installed Fedora which by default uses gnome. Everything I have tried so far just works and its super user friendly
Big boy going straight to arch. I daily drive debian ~9yrs ago for ~6mo and loved it until I decided I wanted to play games again. 1 month ago I ditched Windows again and went the easy route with Mint. Its been excellent as my daily driver (for my particular workflow). Everything works either equal or better than windows, although I don't edit videos.
An important trick to know when applications don't launch, is opening them from the terminal and reading why they don't open. It's almost always some dependency issue that is pretty easy to fix.
@@architmishra015isn’t really customizable like hyprland is, but it’s a lot better when it comes to not giving yourself arthritis with 20 different keybinds
I am a Designer… graphic, multimedia, content creation. I use Linux as a full time main machine. I used to be a Mac user dependent on Adobe… switching was the best decision ever, have never looked back, and wouldn’t do it for anything.
@@stupidgeek Video Editing: Pro-High End projects, DaVinci Resolve; Simple-Basic projects, Kdenlive. But it depends, some client demand (who knows why) to be done in Resolve, but most of the time Kdenlive is all I need. Motion Graphics: Natron and DaVinci Resolve. Illustration: Inkscape. Editorial: Scribus. Image Editing: Krita and Gimp Audio Editing: Ardour Photo Managing: Dark Table
@@nnnscorpionnn It took me a while… way too long to figure out out the “myth of Mac being the ultimate creative platform” was a total lie. I was convinced without a Mac to run Adobe I could simply not do any work but one day I decided to give it a try and several months later I was really pleased with what I found. Total freedom to customize and do what I want with my system and apps without having to pay premium for things that are basically just decorative features. Another important thing was the fact that Apple has a very well oiled and integrated ecosystem… as long as everything is Apple, again, I just wanted the freedom to use whatever piece of hardware I want, even based on “trivial factors” such as the case color… shopping and found a cool case? No problem, install Linux and use it. If it were Apple I would be stuck with whatever lineup they have available and just choosing based on color would be a major investment. I wanted to learn and master how the computer works. I will never be doing “Mr. Robot” level hacking, but for example I learned how to customize and compile drivers so I can make work devices. In this sense Linux is not everyone’s cup of tea, some people are just happy with turning ON their computers and be instantly productive, power to them. But I wanted to turn ON my computer any way I want and do whatever I want even to the source code or hardware level… I could have answered just but saying, total freedom.
You can go with Manjaro, it's arch based. I mean I would've started with Mint but also I've started using Linux for a week with Fedora, no major issues, I also can play every game I want with no issue. I'll try out video editing fs@@stupidgeek
@@borsterroneterraria Resolve is better supported on RPM based systems. Pick the distro that best supports what you want to do ( and what hardware you have ).
@@notjustforhackers4252 I'm on Fedora so I guess is RPM based, and about the hardware I mean, I used to push my machine through mid-heavy after effects so I think I could stretch
You might just wanna try Linux Mint. I used it for ~2 years before switching to arch a few weeks ago and I am constantly contemplating if I should go back. Arch is great if you know what you're doing but it's *A LOT* of manual work to really get things going. A lot of stuff works out of the box on mint and if not there is often a somewhat easy solution.
I recently switched to linux, too. And I immediately loved it, even tho I had problems and nuked my partition once or twice, but if that's the cost of freedom, I'm willing to pay.
That's the right attitude. Freedom ain't free. Eventually you should be able to learn how to live in harmony with the system. Linux is not Windows. They share some similarities but there's more fundamental differences. So you really have to approach it differently.
I use Linux as my daily driver for work and I’ve been using Linux since 1998. Arch appears to be for people who want to configure every part of their installation. I use distributions that have as much as possible working acceptably well out of the box so I can spend time getting work done instead of configuring my environment.
Even if I was a programmer I wouldn't have the patience to set up Arch first. I need something that works for the most part out of the box. Respects tho that you kept going and adapt at least a dualboot/dualsystem approach.
That sounds like a very rough experience. Kudos to you for pushing through. I'm going to try NixOS next week. NixOS lets you roll back any changes to your system, so it's not a big issue if you do something that breaks something. Just roll back.
Congrats to the adventure👍👏 But coming from windows, i would try more accessible distributions like Zorin, Mint, Debian or even Fedora. Of course arch is awesome!
Or add to it "Terminal=true". Very useful either way. I just used it to detect a missing dependency because I couldn't open a file in a browser from the app and it turned out in the terminal I was missing xdg-utils
I'm not going to say that you should've tried Fedora/Mint or something like that. What I will say is props for not giving up especially using Arch, as your first distro (I also made that "mistake" but I don't regret it at all lmao)
I installed Linux (Slackware) the first time around 1996. It has improved significantly since then. I've dabbled with Arch, Linux From Scratch and many others but settled on Debian based distros for my daily driver. Wouldn't ever want to use Arch for that, since I want things to just work and never/very rarely break. But Arch is a great learning experience as is LFS and I think you definitely are a better/more able Linux user after having to dig into the system like that. But it is definitely like jumping into the deep end head first. :)
Manjaro is actually worse than plain Arch for Шindows users, since most of the Linux-compatible programs they already use on Шindows come from the AUR.
@@Raspredval1337 I come from windows and use manjaro and I don't have any problems, I have a nice graphical user interface to install aur packages and I've switched to unstable branch so I don't have any problems with aur packages possibly breaking, manjaro is more beginner friendly as It has a graphical installer and pamac, with also the benefits of arch
@@Raspredval1337 AUR is perfectly fine with manjaro.I use both manjaro and arch for 10 years and only once an aur package failed to install simply because it had dependencies that manjaro was behind.Also most of the time there is the option of flatpaks now.
@@stupidgeek the thing is, most AUR packages depend on base Arch packages. And Manjaro actually uses their own packages; basically they take base Arch packages and hold them about a week, to 'test it' (wait until nobody on vanilla Arch doesn't complain about the update). Thus, some AUR packages might not work on Manjaro, since there is a difference in package versions
I remember when linux was not there for me, hopefully one day it will be for your use case's, i would have probably tryd something other than arch, that had more tutorials, but either way great video, i recently swapped from garuda to fedora and i love it, 4 months and "fingers crossed" not a single issue
I started with Kubuntu and ended up on Mint. Out of the box great and unlike what most people say is just as customizable as any other distro including Arch...... You just need to learn ironically. Linux is extremely modular.
Good on you for sticking to your guns using Arch. There may be some software that doesn't work flawlessly on linux but that's not always linux's fault... you came a very long way in a short time.
Why on earth did you start with Arch? Something like Linux Mint or any of the myriad other easier distros would have been a much gentler start. Anyhow, thanks for the upload!
I would recommend you to use the nvidia-dkms drivers, that automatically repatch your kernel every time you update. The archwiki has a great page on how to do this. Also if you have a newer nvidia card nvidia drivers will be added to the kernel itself which will (hopefully) fix all the issues without needing to set it up with dkms, or patch it in to your kernel manually.
I use DKMS on Debian and it works OK. Nvidia driver modules are technically part of the kernel. They're just not monolithic. The drivers are kernel modules though. I like everything that can be a module a module.
I've been on Arch since December as my first distro, but I'm also a PC Technician of nearly 10 years, so although it's a curve, I couldn't imagine the disadvantage a normal person would have. I've had updates alone break my system 3 or 4 times and I've had to correct it.
youtube recommended this to me, pretty cool! I had a nearly identical experience, except I spent a ton more time ricing and I still haven't gotten to the part where I try out video editing
I have been using Linux for Years. And in my Experience some stuff just doesn't work out of the box like on Windows. But the speed of progression of Linux is incredible, just in these past few years Linux has gotten substantially better. While on the other hand Windows has been on a steady decline.
@@stupidgeekyou can get a lot of things that shouldn’t work by adding them to Steam and forcing proton experimental compatibility. I’ve gotten ancient executables like C&C Generals mods to work just by doing that.
3:49 Adobe's acquisition of Figma didn't go through. It got block for anti-competition. also it seems like Figma uses electron. So it performance should be negligible between the app and the browser to be honest. Davinci isn't going to support wayland until the next version. So waiting on that is the best. Still, they won't get AAC support because of licensing issue.
Nice video! I got a few tips for ya :) 1. You can use Linux native clients if you have spotify premium, like Spot, instead of the proprietary app 2. You probably can improve your experience using libx264 and libx265 instead of open-h264 (open-source implementation of the codec by CISCO), which is easier to install but does not have the all the feautures of libx264 (the proprietary codec) 3. Before troubleshooting you can create snapshots to rollback if neccessary with something like BTRFS snaphots (requires using BTRFS as filesystem!) I do not do any kind of video editing in Linux so take point 2 with a grain of salt, but everything else is something I had experience with. Good luck!
Arch isn't insane as it used to be as a first distro, but it is...Brave™
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Like you I was a long time Windows user, maybe even a fanboy, since version 1. I looked at several Linux distros, even Arch. I chose Linux Mint Cinnamon. It did work essentially out of the box and I've been using Mint (now 22) for about a year now and I am a very happy user. I've put aside the cross community chatter about being a newbie, a recent windows convert, etc. etc. I just like Mint. It works, I never have issues. I run my apps to do writing, photo editing, video, and music and I'm getting my work done. Say what they will, it's an eloquent distro and I see no reason at this time to go anywhere else.
The Mint maintainers have gained more experience over time. I ran Mint long ago and I'd say the quality was subpar then. I ran into a few glaring bugs. Mint is a butthurt project. Mint exists because Ubuntu stopped shipping Gnome. So some Ubuntu users of course got upset about that and they forked Ubuntu. Now the reason for Mint doesn't even exist anymore. At least I don't think it does? Ubuntu developed their own DE called Unity. But Mint has become such a major distro they're not abandoning it at this point.
DaVinci Resolve could easily become the de facto video editor on Linux if they'd just put in the effort to make it up to par with the other versions. Linux is a growing market. I'm sure all the problems and limitations it has are resolveble (no pun intended)
I am also a programmer, but i think i will go with Ubuntu as my first Linux distro. Cant wait to transition from Windows to Linux, the OS looks so at home for a tech bro.
@@Benadryl_Overdoser I was banging my head between Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora and Pop. I decided Ubuntu, its an old and well supported distro from what i heard, and if i dont like it i can always switch to something else. I plan to run these distros on VirtualBox first, and if some of then fit my needs, then i might do a clean boot and ditch Windows alltogether.
@@jokelot5221 makes sense, all good choices as a beginner distro. hope linux goes well for you, I switched to arch linux myself because windows kinda sucks now imo.
@@jokelot5221 outside of Pop, Ubuntu Mint and Fedora are all old and well maintainted distros with plenty of legacy behind, so your choice is backed by a team with a lot of experience either way
@@jokelot5221 i ve been distrohopin for months and i always come back to ubuntu with gnome... suits me the best although without gnome tweaks it would be annoyin to use
Hi, i have also tried using Davinci but then shifted to Kdenlive which is much more stable(in linux) and usable. I know it is not as smooth as davinci on windows but can get job done. Nice vid❤
Looks like Nobara might be the right Distro for you. Davinci Resolve works out of the box. OBS as well. Its Fedora based and has a lot of optimisation for gamers and content creators. I switched from Windows to Nobara in Dec'23 and never looked back.
I noticed most of the comments are telling he should had started with other easier distros. I kinda get it as someone who had it dual booted with my windows.(Technically my first often used distro and I just started a month ago lol). But the reason why I chose arch is to explore the adventures of learning linux(and finally be able to say "Arch btw").
I tried linux for like 18 years maybe... It was terrible for the first two years (with Ubuntu) and several months when I switched to Arch. It was wonderful journey since then.
I like that im not the only one that experienced problems unlike most of the other youtubers. Alot of youtubers try linux and are like wow everything works you can even game with wine. But every time i've tried Linux I always run into problems. I do sometimes like fixing them because in the end its just a skill issue and its satisfying to learn something and fix it. But often times I just need it to work and I dont have the time or energy to try that random 8th stackoverflow or reddit reply to fix an issue.
set obs settings>output>recording quality> indistinguishable quality large file size. all I ever need. arch needs a lot of setup to get working "right". EndeavourOS takes care of most of it, which would probably have solved a lot of your problems.
I built OBS from source and it seemed to work pretty good to me. I even mistakenly opened up a live stream with it and I've no idea how it managed to do that. Because I didn't give it any of my account info. It must have somehow gleaned it out of my browser? I hit like one button though and I went live. Someone joined the stream and in a panic I shut it down. I didn't know it was streaming. But it was real easy too easy. I'm just lucky I had pants on and didn't have a camera plugged in.
The content creation issue is a problem of personal preference but mainly also the ignorance of companies, who don't properly port, or don't port their software at all. Linux as a desktop is still evolving and it needs all the support it can get.
@@alphacraft9658 they can. But it isn't practical or productive. Linux is an open source system. There's no place for closed source on Linux. You're basically advocating for cancer. It exists in the body so we should promote it. No. Closed source is foreign to the host. Denounce it! Closed source is wicked and evil. If you debugged software you'd know. Closed source is like putting walls up on highways. You're cruising along and smack! Now your car is all smashed up and you've got no way to fix it either. Who put this wall in the middle of the highway? We don't want it! You want that garbage then go run Windows.
I‘m using dual boot for many years, and even if it isn’t perfect - it works and it covers all my needs. I use Windows for gaming and Linux for everything else (mostly programming). I know there are people who somehow manage to game on Linux, but for me it just doesn’t work most of the time. Otherwise I’d moved 100% to Linux.
i have installed kali linux as my base operting system and my laptop doesnt have no windows . and it is fucking gorgeous and smooth . i love this and this is the best for coding and programming
I wonder if you were getting bad performance because resolve wasn't using your gpu with the proprietary drivers. Also I know wayland+nvidia causes some issues, like performance issues in games so I wonder if that is hurting it too.
Also also, you can convert mp4s to other formats using ffmpeg pretty easily, so you could convert them to something usable in resolve that way if you need to
@@stupidgeek Ahh okay that makes sense. But yeah running it using prime-run might help ensure that it's actually using your gpu. You can look in the archwiki for "prime" and then see the section on prime-run for more details
Aaaand it's maybe possible to change the container from mp4 to something else without spending a bunch of time reencoding every file (takes like less than a second to change containers I think) That may work for you idk
Finally a honest review and some Linux fanboy praising any stupid thing. Disclaimer: I am a Linux user myself, but I hate how Linux community tries to hide all the common problems that people face, and preventing people from moving to Linux.
Dude it’s great that you straight up went to arch. I personally felt Debian based distros provide a lot of stuff straight out of the box. You should give it a try…
Jesus, you don't start with Arch, that's like wanting to become a F1 driver by racing a F1 car for the first time in the Monaco Grand Prix, or becoming a doctor by immediately doing brain surgery. You start with Linux in more user friendly distros, like Pop OS, Linux Mint or Debian (not ubuntu, never ubuntu) The you move to harder distros like Nobara, Fedora or Manjaro Then to hard distros, like Drauger OS or Garuda OS And then you go to Advanced distros, like Arch or Gentoo And then if you are a pro at it, you build your own from scratch, what you don't do is jump through all of those stages and immediately go for the hardest distro you can find, this is one of the big reasons why people get discouraged with Linux, people who never used it are recommended by their friend who, admittedly knows a lot, Arch to start with, people coming off of windows are not used to using terminals and having to install a distro, let alone Arch- FFS people, always recommend an easy distro for windows users to start with.
I'm happy that I don't need windows for anything in my workflow. I do some video editing which I use kdenlive for. Kdenlive reminds me of 2010 Sony Vegas so I actually like it. The tragic thing is if Microsoft, you know did it's actual job and cared about it's products, I would still use windows. If they literally came out tomorrow with Windows 7 reborn edition I would get that and I would be fine.
I completely share your opinion, as I too was a Sony Vegas user, and now happily use Kdenlive. I switched to Kubuntu KDE Plasma about two years ago, and couldn't be more pleased.
So you went from a Dumptruck (windows) to a racecar. From Edge to Bleeding Edge! When stability becomes your paradigm, then go for the Corolla ( Mint AKA Debian or Fedora) Boring but it gives you something priceless. Stress freedom!
My first time linux experience was : I installed arch 17 times, each time error cz I didn't know anything about linux then. Then I started my Linux journey with Fedora. After a few months, I got the real taste of linux, then I switched to Arch Linux. Now, enjoying arch with hyprland
You try Linux on hard mode, then say Linux is hard. I wonder what your experience would be like if you tried a consumer-oriented distro like Ubuntu or POP_OS! instead of distro oriented at 1337 h4xorz like Arch.
@@1pcfred I'm not sure about that. On the one hand doing advanced stuff sometimes requires the terminal, but on the other hand if you know enough to be aware of those advanced things you can probably manage with a terminal. On the other hand most say to day stuff like installing and updating apps and the system, launching and using apps, changing settings, and managing your files is pretty easy. What's left that's genuinely hard is fixing breakage or making unsupported stuff work.
@@Lestibournes there's definitely things I find challenging to impossible to do in Linux. I tried to compile the Vulkan SDK once. I couldn't do it. I've compiled quite a bit in Linux too. Including some things that would be considered impossible to do. Mostly involving getting incompatible libcs onto systems. Which is tricky stuff. I've had no success often trying to configure ALSA too. ~/.asoundrc D-Bus is a mystery to me. I don't use a DE but my system still has it in a limited capacity. If you poke around there's some perplexing stuff in Linux.
@@1pcfred I mean, maybe what you're describing is easy to do on other systems, but at the same time it's advanced stuff that normal users would never even be aware of, let alone attempt.
I can see you're falling down the Linux pipeline. Soon you'll switch your main computer to a Librebooted Thinkpad with Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre and constantly praise Richard Stallman as our lord and savior.
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What is think is you should use pop os. It's a really beginner friendly and and gives you a very good understanding of linux. The apt package manager is really a stable one and is fun to use. Also the tiling window you really like is already present in the pop os. Just watch some tutorials if you want to rice it. And whatever, have fun.
Don’t it became a trash trans server in less then a week another discord channel got run over
That's it you were doing more tinkering than content creation. As I like Linux I do😢have time for thinkering
Mint is the way to go. As a longtime MacOS user, it seems to be the Linux distribution that “just works.”
Try Garuda Linux it has the best driver support I am using it right now actually if you want a Windows feeling environment the Cinnamon and XFCE are your friend but if you want LTS I would go for XFCE which looks like a modern futuristic retro based looking desktop environment let the system update and restart first BEFORE using features.
Using Arch and Hyprland as your first distro/WM is actually insane.
sure is
It is very easy as long as one can follow basic instructions from an installation guide on TH-cam.
@stingfiretube if, and this is a big if, each of those instructions works perfectly, and the config files you use are well-maintained, then sure, maybe. But it's not easy in the way gnome or kde are easy.
it's not, bruh alot of people have done that including me though now I use nix and hypr
Fr i been using arch and kde and i tried to switch to hyprland but i couldn't it's to complicated
Next time go easy on yourself and try something more newbie friendly, like Gentoo.
sure XD
LOL😂
@@stupidgeekgentoo is pretty hard though, you should instead make your own distro using linux from scratch.
@@nnshshwh3966 true
Or LFS😜
whoever recommended arch for your first distro is cruel
haha, its alright
It was my first distro and I'm still using it. The only issues I've ever come across is anti-cheats and discord screenshare(very specific to wayland).
@@Cookie_Department in case you're still having problems with screen share, using another client like waycord or vesktop along with xwaylandvideobridge makes it work just fine. Waycord also makes audio work during screenshares
Or they were joking?! xD
@@stupidgeek try mint or pop
recommending new linux users to use wayland on arch with an nvidia gpu is ALWAYS gonna lead to a good time.
haha
thats why i use xorg hehe
@@gorlixi use xorg because i’m cursed with using an nvidia gpu with linux lmao, atleast for me wayland really doesn’t like nvidia
You either don't know shit about ur own GPU drivers lmao or ur using a stable release bs distro with 10 year old drivers @@Benadryl_Overdoser
Idk dude I’ve never had any problems with nvidia on Linux and Wayland outside of single gpu passthrough in virtual machines but that’s a whole different beast
I've never played a videogame before!
* boots up dark souls *
Tbf that will be an easy experience. DS1 is clunky, slow and easy. Booting Sekiro is another story
@@slendydie1267 bruh that's my favourite game , is there any problems with sekiro?
I actually think it depends on the person. Sekiro can just 'click' for some people, just like dark souls can. They are very different games. Some people will have an easy time with one, and a hard time with the other.
Goofy ahh game
@@xninja2369 Sekiros learning curve is steeper
“As a daily car driver I always wanted to fly on a plane. So I went to my local hardware store and bought some tools to create my first plane. It turned out that planes has different engines than cars do.” 😂😂😂
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Choosing Arch as your first distro is like Harry Using the Nimbus 2000 as his first broom. It's like going into a real karate dojo and instantly being paired to kumite with blackbelts. It's like turning 21 and having RAW EVERCLEAR be your first liquor of choice.
💀💀💀
Or like learning to drive in a Lamborghini you've assembled out of a kit, with wiki as your driving instructor. All things considered, I'd say you did really well!
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Choosing Arch as your first distro is like setting the computer difficulty to very hard immediately after starting the game in order to turbo max your gainz.
"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
Arch for the start? It is like learning how to drive using F1 car
More like you’re given a a junkyard with so many broken cars and you’re asked to build yourself a car from their parts and then learn to drive.
What would u recommend for a beginner then?
@@Tragedian-OAMint I guess
@@albatross7 Then you should install gentoo. Arch is just having to do all of the basic maintenance on your first car yourself, but its also a manual car, and you dont know how to drive yet.
@@albatross7 I would rather go back to Slackware.
I switched from windows to ubuntu last week and everything worked flawlessly. From gaming to coding and also recording with OBS. Everything went without a hitch. Ubuntu might not be the most loved among the linux community, but I’m glad it runs without any of the issues that my peers had with their distros.
good for you
I don't like Ubuntu but there's some exaggeration around it, it does great by the people that like it
Man I am getting errors while trying to use data from d drive
@@mihairomulus2488 I've been using ubuntu for the past almost 2 years in work and 6 months in my home pc, except when i play league (the i have a dual boot), and i feel like you can get around with everything you want with a litle touch of not having to recompile your os, also the support is amazing, bigger than any other distro. I think it is a pretty good distro overal, people only make fun of it because of not being complex and hard i think
Imagine using ubuntu 🗣️
You learn a lot when things are broken.
sure do :)
I must be a learning master
The linux experience just isn’t the same unless you reinstall arch 5+ times minimum
true that, almost my 6th instalation rn
Super true
I nuked the Desktop like 9 times and once then i figured out how everything works
When something doesn't open, try opening it with the console, it gives you errors you can debug with
thankyou, I found that out recently
You can do better than that and run the program through a utility called strace. strace will spill every system call the program makes as it tries to run. You're best off redirecting the output to a file that you can then examine. Because it's quite a scroll. Then filter the output for what you're looking for. Also those errors will be in the console you launched your window session from. But if you use a display manager you're out of luck. So that's most Linux users today. It sucks to be them.
And now Linux will never leave your mind saying "try again... Maybe this time"
true that
@@stupidgeek Linux is like heroin, or any opiate. It's best not to try them, because once you get a taste, you realize everyone loves opiates, its just that they haven't tried yet.
Don't try more dangerous stuff like FreeBSD with the same effect. 😂
DaVinci Resolve does not officially support Arch Linux. Like many proprietary software on Linux (for example, software from Autodesk, the Foundry, or SideFx), the officially supported distribution is Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its clones. Additionally, like many proprietary software, the way it is distributed is not the normal Linux way of packaging and distributing software. But even if it is not officially supported, it is Linux, and you can still install it on almost any distribution. It may be harder on some distributions because they may lack some dependencies by default, or some dependencies may not be at the version DaVinci Resolve requires. In my opinion, the easiest way to have DaVinci Resolve working on any distribution is to install it in a container using the program Distrobox with the DavinciBox image.
but its on their website
@@stupidgeek Yes, it's a bit confusing. On the download page of Resolve, it says that it supports Linux, but it's actually made for Red Hat or one of its clones like CentOS, Rocky Linux, or AlmaLinux. Technically, they are not wrong by just saying it works on Linux because it can be installed and work on almost any distro. However, by not specifying which distro their installer is made for, people download it thinking it will work out of the box on any distro. When it doesn't work, people inevitably think that Resolve is broken on Linux. And when it does not work out of the box, on most distros, you are on your own to figure out why it doesn't work and what to tweak to make it work
@@Arnautomatique whoav, got it
I think there are ways to run the installer on arch, i seen it pretty much just work on popos, debian, if anything requiring some package, it must work on arch too, just might require some extra steps.
@@asunavk69 @asunavk69 Yes, you can make it work on almost any distro even if it is not officially supported. On some distros, there are people who have already figured out how to make it work. Arch has a huge user base, and Resolve is very popular software, so there is always someone who figures out how to install Resolve. On some other distros, you are on your own, and sometimes there are multiple ways, like on Debian where there is a way to use the official installer and there is the way of MakeResolveDeb. Personally, I like to install it with Distrobox and DavinciBox because it will work on any distro as long as you can install Distrobox.
You had the real linux experience fr, i gave up on the second day after i imploded my OS trying to make a single game open
You are a man among men for starting with Arch, Hyperland, and Wayland with nvidia. Living life on hard mode but I respect it.
Usually people give up on something like linux mint or fedora after trying out linux. But bro just successfully installed Arch and even keeps using it 💀
Huge props
Thanks, lol
I think arch is good for people to understand more how linux works but It is a pain in the ass when some dependencies are missing or everything just crashs (edit, I use Arch btw with kde)
@@silmarlon1KDE 💀
No offense 🤝
@@EchterAlsFake kde plasma, sorry
@@silmarlon1 That was not what I meant xD
it's pretty wild to go to arch right first, props for that (and sorry you went through that lol)
its alright 😆
Yes, media creation can be a hassle. Working with FOSS solutions like Kdenlive is nice and works out of the box. However, for some people, these programs aren't feature-rich enough.
Although I have to say, it's not entirely Linux's fault that some software on it is trash.
It isn't made for stuff that I do, so the fault lies with me lol
@@stupidgeek really? the video you uploaded here seems to have very basic edits. all of which is possible in kdenlive. or even blender
@stupidgeek
tbh the i personally feel fault lies on the companies the ability to support linux is becoming easier and easier by the day so if a program doesnt work on linux its most likely bc a company made it that way but i feel that is also changing by the day. your decision is completely fair but i truly do believe that in just a couple years a program not being supported on linux will be a rarity with how things are going.
@@silvyboi4150 agreed, if you look at what worked on linux 2 years ago compared to now and its a night and day difference
@@stupidgeek you can always add the features you want. Use the source Luke!
I just switched to Linux on by laptop as well. I installed Fedora which by default uses gnome. Everything I have tried so far just works and its super user friendly
Big boy going straight to arch. I daily drive debian ~9yrs ago for ~6mo and loved it until I decided I wanted to play games again. 1 month ago I ditched Windows again and went the easy route with Mint. Its been excellent as my daily driver (for my particular workflow). Everything works either equal or better than windows, although I don't edit videos.
Its alright for daily driving, the problem is with my workflow not the OS XD
An important trick to know when applications don't launch, is opening them from the terminal and reading why they don't open. It's almost always some dependency issue that is pretty easy to fix.
I recently switched from windows to Linux Mint. Mint is really good if your moving from windows to linux.
Keep going, Hyprland is just the beginning.
yessir :)
The best is KDE PLASMA. Honestly the customization you get.
Afaics Komorebi on Windows is a lot better.
@@architmishra015 lol
@@architmishra015isn’t really customizable like hyprland is, but it’s a lot better when it comes to not giving yourself arthritis with 20 different keybinds
I am a Designer… graphic, multimedia, content creation. I use Linux as a full time main machine. I used to be a Mac user dependent on Adobe… switching was the best decision ever, have never looked back, and wouldn’t do it for anything.
what software do you use?
@@stupidgeek Video Editing: Pro-High End projects, DaVinci Resolve; Simple-Basic projects, Kdenlive. But it depends, some client demand (who knows why) to be done in Resolve, but most of the time Kdenlive is all I need.
Motion Graphics: Natron and DaVinci Resolve.
Illustration: Inkscape.
Editorial: Scribus.
Image Editing: Krita and Gimp
Audio Editing: Ardour
Photo Managing: Dark Table
Why did you switch to linux?
@@nnnscorpionnn It took me a while… way too long to figure out out the “myth of Mac being the ultimate creative platform” was a total lie. I was convinced without a Mac to run Adobe I could simply not do any work but one day I decided to give it a try and several months later I was really pleased with what I found. Total freedom to customize and do what I want with my system and apps without having to pay premium for things that are basically just decorative features.
Another important thing was the fact that Apple has a very well oiled and integrated ecosystem… as long as everything is Apple, again, I just wanted the freedom to use whatever piece of hardware I want, even based on “trivial factors” such as the case color… shopping and found a cool case? No problem, install Linux and use it. If it were Apple I would be stuck with whatever lineup they have available and just choosing based on color would be a major investment.
I wanted to learn and master how the computer works. I will never be doing “Mr. Robot” level hacking, but for example I learned how to customize and compile drivers so I can make work devices. In this sense Linux is not everyone’s cup of tea, some people are just happy with turning ON their computers and be instantly productive, power to them. But I wanted to turn ON my computer any way I want and do whatever I want even to the source code or hardware level… I could have answered just but saying, total freedom.
@@wcarcass holy shit dude it's like you went from driving a decent car to driving something from a junk yard
New rabbit hole for you “KVM GPU Passthru”
Man starts with the Lego set of Linux. Funny. Should have gone Fedora or SUSE.
Too late
You can go with Manjaro, it's arch based. I mean I would've started with Mint but also I've started using Linux for a week with Fedora, no major issues, I also can play every game I want with no issue. I'll try out video editing fs@@stupidgeek
@@borsterroneterraria Resolve is better supported on RPM based systems. Pick the distro that best supports what you want to do ( and what hardware you have ).
@@notjustforhackers4252 I'm on Fedora so I guess is RPM based, and about the hardware I mean, I used to push my machine through mid-heavy after effects so I think I could stretch
Fedora ftw. Finished uni on fedora+tiling wm
You might just wanna try Linux Mint. I used it for ~2 years before switching to arch a few weeks ago and I am constantly contemplating if I should go back. Arch is great if you know what you're doing but it's *A LOT* of manual work to really get things going. A lot of stuff works out of the box on mint and if not there is often a somewhat easy solution.
Thanks for sharing!
I recently switched to linux, too. And I immediately loved it, even tho I had problems and nuked my partition once or twice, but if that's the cost of freedom, I'm willing to pay.
That's the right attitude. Freedom ain't free. Eventually you should be able to learn how to live in harmony with the system. Linux is not Windows. They share some similarities but there's more fundamental differences. So you really have to approach it differently.
Bro arch as first distro?! 😂. Whoever told you that was crazy
I use Linux as my daily driver for work and I’ve been using Linux since 1998. Arch appears to be for people who want to configure every part of their installation. I use distributions that have as much as possible working acceptably well out of the box so I can spend time getting work done instead of configuring my environment.
good for you, topguy
I love how you showed the crowdstrike outtage which involved Linux too💁
finally, someone found it :)
Even if I was a programmer I wouldn't have the patience to set up Arch first.
I need something that works for the most part out of the box.
Respects tho that you kept going and adapt at least a dualboot/dualsystem approach.
to be fair, you can always just use the archinstall script
People say its buggy
Thanks
That sounds like a very rough experience. Kudos to you for pushing through.
I'm going to try NixOS next week. NixOS lets you roll back any changes to your system, so it's not a big issue if you do something that breaks something. Just roll back.
Editing that Nix config file looks pretty daunting. You get the benefits once you conquer that syntax through.
Good luck and if you get trough the initial learning curve its best linux experience i've had. highly recommended
I love how Leo showed up from the middle of nowhere to save the day.
Guardians of the Galaxy, haha
Congrats to the adventure👍👏 But coming from windows, i would try more accessible distributions like Zorin, Mint, Debian or even Fedora. Of course arch is awesome!
btw, the way to debug the desktop icon is to open it in a text editor and try the "Exec" command in command line
Or add to it "Terminal=true". Very useful either way. I just used it to detect a missing dependency because I couldn't open a file in a browser from the app and it turned out in the terminal I was missing xdg-utils
2:20 For me, "Vivaldi is an emotion".
I'm not going to say that you should've tried Fedora/Mint or something like that.
What I will say is props for not giving up especially using Arch, as your first distro (I also made that "mistake" but I don't regret it at all lmao)
I installed Linux (Slackware) the first time around 1996. It has improved significantly since then. I've dabbled with Arch, Linux From Scratch and many others but settled on Debian based distros for my daily driver. Wouldn't ever want to use Arch for that, since I want things to just work and never/very rarely break. But Arch is a great learning experience as is LFS and I think you definitely are a better/more able Linux user after having to dig into the system like that. But it is definitely like jumping into the deep end head first. :)
Using Arch linux as your first distro is wild, I think you should've used Manjaro if you really wanted to use Arch as your first distro
Manjaro is actually worse than plain Arch for Шindows users, since most of the Linux-compatible programs they already use on Шindows come from the AUR.
its alright, got around it
@@Raspredval1337 I come from windows and use manjaro and I don't have any problems, I have a nice graphical user interface to install aur packages and I've switched to unstable branch so I don't have any problems with aur packages possibly breaking, manjaro is more beginner friendly as It has a graphical installer and pamac, with also the benefits of arch
@@Raspredval1337 AUR is perfectly fine with manjaro.I use both manjaro and arch for 10 years and only once an aur package failed to install simply because it had dependencies that manjaro was behind.Also most of the time there is the option of flatpaks now.
@@stupidgeek the thing is, most AUR packages depend on base Arch packages. And Manjaro actually uses their own packages; basically they take base Arch packages and hold them about a week, to 'test it' (wait until nobody on vanilla Arch doesn't complain about the update). Thus, some AUR packages might not work on Manjaro, since there is a difference in package versions
I remember when linux was not there for me, hopefully one day it will be for your use case's, i would have probably tryd something other than arch, that had more tutorials, but either way great video, i recently swapped from garuda to fedora and i love it, 4 months and "fingers crossed" not a single issue
Thanks, good for you
I started with Kubuntu and ended up on Mint. Out of the box great and unlike what most people say is just as customizable as any other distro including Arch...... You just need to learn ironically. Linux is extremely modular.
true
Good on you for sticking to your guns using Arch. There may be some software that doesn't work flawlessly on linux but that's not always linux's fault... you came a very long way in a short time.
Thanks
I recently tried Manjaro and I really like it. It's kind of a user-friendly version of Arch
Manjaro is a great idea but the team keeps shipping broken packages. EndeavourOS is way better, it only breaks when it's your fault.
@@scrapmine Yup. That's what everyone tells me.
I'm definitely not ready to completely leave Windows and live on Linux, but I hope someday, I will.
Thanks Brooo for this video , i have the same idea as you to switch to Linux but right now i feel happy to use windows
No regrets
Why on earth did you start with Arch? Something like Linux Mint or any of the myriad other easier distros would have been a much gentler start. Anyhow, thanks for the upload!
the best thing in linux is that you can fix the issues that are not present in any other OS
True
I would recommend you to use the nvidia-dkms drivers, that automatically repatch your kernel every time you update. The archwiki has a great page on how to do this. Also if you have a newer nvidia card nvidia drivers will be added to the kernel itself which will (hopefully) fix all the issues without needing to set it up with dkms, or patch it in to your kernel manually.
I use DKMS on Debian and it works OK. Nvidia driver modules are technically part of the kernel. They're just not monolithic. The drivers are kernel modules though. I like everything that can be a module a module.
I've been on Arch since December as my first distro, but I'm also a PC Technician of nearly 10 years, so although it's a curve, I couldn't imagine the disadvantage a normal person would have. I've had updates alone break my system 3 or 4 times and I've had to correct it.
I've been running Linux for 29 years now and I wouldn't run Arch.
Nice video, keep posting.
I gotta try ricing now
You can look at some of the patches that Nobara does to Davinci resolve, which works pretty well for me
youtube recommended this to me, pretty cool! I had a nearly identical experience, except I spent a ton more time ricing and I still haven't gotten to the part where I try out video editing
I'm not a big-big fan of ricing, but yeah its cool
I have been using Linux for Years. And in my Experience some stuff just doesn't work out of the box like on Windows.
But the speed of progression of Linux is incredible, just in these past few years Linux has gotten substantially better.
While on the other hand Windows has been on a steady decline.
That's true, Linux lacks the compatibility which windows has, rest everything is acceptable :)
@@stupidgeekyou can get a lot of things that shouldn’t work by adding them to Steam and forcing proton experimental compatibility. I’ve gotten ancient executables like C&C Generals mods to work just by doing that.
"You must die by a thousand cuts before you can unseat the Emperor".
- Mick Malthouse, Aussie Rules Footy coach and Zen Master
true that, sir
3:49 Adobe's acquisition of Figma didn't go through. It got block for anti-competition.
also it seems like Figma uses electron. So it performance should be negligible between the app and the browser to be honest.
Davinci isn't going to support wayland until the next version. So waiting on that is the best. Still, they won't get AAC support because of licensing issue.
Nice video! I got a few tips for ya :)
1. You can use Linux native clients if you have spotify premium, like Spot, instead of the proprietary app
2. You probably can improve your experience using libx264 and libx265 instead of open-h264 (open-source implementation of the codec by CISCO), which is easier to install but does not have the all the feautures of libx264 (the proprietary codec)
3. Before troubleshooting you can create snapshots to rollback if neccessary with something like BTRFS snaphots (requires using BTRFS as filesystem!)
I do not do any kind of video editing in Linux so take point 2 with a grain of salt, but everything else is something I had experience with. Good luck!
Thanks for sharing
@@stupidgeek happy to help
0:16 picture sauce?
Nice, keep going king! I also started with Arch... It's so fun to learn new stuff.(Even breaking it lol)
sure is XD
Arch isn't insane as it used to be as a first distro, but it is...Brave™
Like you I was a long time Windows user, maybe even a fanboy, since version 1. I looked at several Linux distros, even Arch. I chose Linux Mint Cinnamon. It did work essentially out of the box and I've been using Mint (now 22) for about a year now and I am a very happy user. I've put aside the cross community chatter about being a newbie, a recent windows convert, etc. etc. I just like Mint. It works, I never have issues. I run my apps to do writing, photo editing, video, and music and I'm getting my work done. Say what they will, it's an eloquent distro and I see no reason at this time to go anywhere else.
The Mint maintainers have gained more experience over time. I ran Mint long ago and I'd say the quality was subpar then. I ran into a few glaring bugs. Mint is a butthurt project. Mint exists because Ubuntu stopped shipping Gnome. So some Ubuntu users of course got upset about that and they forked Ubuntu. Now the reason for Mint doesn't even exist anymore. At least I don't think it does? Ubuntu developed their own DE called Unity. But Mint has become such a major distro they're not abandoning it at this point.
I think figma desktop app uses electron. Should be as fast as in the browser.
DaVinci Resolve could easily become the de facto video editor on Linux if they'd just put in the effort to make it up to par with the other versions. Linux is a growing market. I'm sure all the problems and limitations it has are resolveble (no pun intended)
I am also a programmer, but i think i will go with Ubuntu as my first Linux distro. Cant wait to transition from Windows to Linux, the OS looks so at home for a tech bro.
honestly as a first distro i’d suggest mint over ubuntu, it’s a little more open but that’s just my opinion ofc.
@@Benadryl_Overdoser I was banging my head between Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora and Pop. I decided Ubuntu, its an old and well supported distro from what i heard, and if i dont like it i can always switch to something else. I plan to run these distros on VirtualBox first, and if some of then fit my needs, then i might do a clean boot and ditch Windows alltogether.
@@jokelot5221 makes sense, all good choices as a beginner distro. hope linux goes well for you, I switched to arch linux myself because windows kinda sucks now imo.
@@jokelot5221 outside of Pop, Ubuntu Mint and Fedora are all old and well maintainted distros with plenty of legacy behind, so your choice is backed by a team with a lot of experience either way
@@jokelot5221 i ve been distrohopin for months and i always come back to ubuntu with gnome... suits me the best although without gnome tweaks it would be annoyin to use
Hi, i have also tried using Davinci but then shifted to Kdenlive which is much more stable(in linux) and usable. I know it is not as smooth as davinci on windows but can get job done. Nice vid❤
Thankyou, I'll try that
Looks like Nobara might be the right Distro for you. Davinci Resolve works out of the box. OBS as well.
Its Fedora based and has a lot of optimisation for gamers and content creators. I switched from Windows to Nobara in Dec'23 and never looked back.
hmm, i'll try to give it a try if possible
Pure Fedora is more stable and reliable than Nobara.
I once heard a wise man say: "first thing wrong is that you chose arch for your first distro. Everything else wrong is just a natural consequence"
Well, using Arch as your first ever Linux distro is seriously hardcore, lmao.
it was fun though
@@stupidgeek Well, if you had fun, then who cares, i guess?
I noticed most of the comments are telling he should had started with other easier distros. I kinda get it as someone who had it dual booted with my windows.(Technically my first often used distro and I just started a month ago lol). But the reason why I chose arch is to explore the adventures of learning linux(and finally be able to say "Arch btw").
4:30 appearantly spotify tui is pretty neat or something
or spot, which is a spotify gui client.
Thank you for making this! I had to use SteamOS and this perfectly describes my thoughts.
figma is in linux offically
it isn't official, its made by the community
@@stupidgeek damn I was wrong but it works fine as fuck though
I tried linux for like 18 years maybe... It was terrible for the first two years (with Ubuntu) and several months when I switched to Arch. It was wonderful journey since then.
Sometimes flatpak for certain programs is better option
sometimes
Never!
I like that im not the only one that experienced problems unlike most of the other youtubers. Alot of youtubers try linux and are like wow everything works you can even game with wine. But every time i've tried Linux I always run into problems. I do sometimes like fixing them because in the end its just a skill issue and its satisfying to learn something and fix it. But often times I just need it to work and I dont have the time or energy to try that random 8th stackoverflow or reddit reply to fix an issue.
Kindly asking to not use Wayland with Nvidia, please switch to X11
switched yesterday
Wayland still messy after 16 years of development...
set obs settings>output>recording quality> indistinguishable quality large file size. all I ever need. arch needs a lot of setup to get working "right". EndeavourOS takes care of most of it, which would probably have solved a lot of your problems.
I built OBS from source and it seemed to work pretty good to me. I even mistakenly opened up a live stream with it and I've no idea how it managed to do that. Because I didn't give it any of my account info. It must have somehow gleaned it out of my browser? I hit like one button though and I went live. Someone joined the stream and in a panic I shut it down. I didn't know it was streaming. But it was real easy too easy. I'm just lucky I had pants on and didn't have a camera plugged in.
The content creation issue is a problem of personal preference but mainly also the ignorance of companies, who don't properly port, or don't port their software at all. Linux as a desktop is still evolving and it needs all the support it can get.
true
One does not simply port closed source software to Linux.
@@1pcfred The companies who own the software can, even if it takes a lot of effort. They often just don't.
@@alphacraft9658 they can. But it isn't practical or productive. Linux is an open source system. There's no place for closed source on Linux. You're basically advocating for cancer. It exists in the body so we should promote it. No. Closed source is foreign to the host. Denounce it! Closed source is wicked and evil. If you debugged software you'd know. Closed source is like putting walls up on highways. You're cruising along and smack! Now your car is all smashed up and you've got no way to fix it either. Who put this wall in the middle of the highway? We don't want it! You want that garbage then go run Windows.
I‘m using dual boot for many years, and even if it isn’t perfect - it works and it covers all my needs. I use Windows for gaming and Linux for everything else (mostly programming). I know there are people who somehow manage to game on Linux, but for me it just doesn’t work most of the time. Otherwise I’d moved 100% to Linux.
Broo Finally damn
:)
i have installed kali linux as my base operting system and my laptop doesnt have no windows . and it is fucking gorgeous and smooth . i love this and this is the best for coding and programming
I wonder if you were getting bad performance because resolve wasn't using your gpu with the proprietary drivers. Also I know wayland+nvidia causes some issues, like performance issues in games so I wonder if that is hurting it too.
Also also, you can convert mp4s to other formats using ffmpeg pretty easily, so you could convert them to something usable in resolve that way if you need to
I think it wasn't using my GPU at all lmao, I did nvidia-smi and resolve was using 96MBs of gpu at most.
I play around with a lot of clips, converting them would be inefficient and time consuming for every clip.
@@stupidgeek Ahh okay that makes sense. But yeah running it using prime-run might help ensure that it's actually using your gpu. You can look in the archwiki for "prime" and then see the section on prime-run for more details
Aaaand it's maybe possible to change the container from mp4 to something else without spending a bunch of time reencoding every file (takes like less than a second to change containers I think) That may work for you idk
Finally a honest review and some Linux fanboy praising any stupid thing.
Disclaimer: I am a Linux user myself, but I hate how Linux community tries to hide all the common problems that people face, and preventing people from moving to Linux.
try Fedora its more geared towards devs and also supports DaVinci Resolve...
Dude it’s great that you straight up went to arch. I personally felt Debian based distros provide a lot of stuff straight out of the box. You should give it a try…
sure
Arch is not the best choice for a new user coming from Windows.
its alright
"Brave is a Emotion" As someone who uses it daily I felt that Emotion. 😂
Jesus, you don't start with Arch, that's like wanting to become a F1 driver by racing a F1 car for the first time in the Monaco Grand Prix, or becoming a doctor by immediately doing brain surgery.
You start with Linux in more user friendly distros, like Pop OS, Linux Mint or Debian (not ubuntu, never ubuntu)
The you move to harder distros like Nobara, Fedora or Manjaro
Then to hard distros, like Drauger OS or Garuda OS
And then you go to Advanced distros, like Arch or Gentoo
And then if you are a pro at it, you build your own from scratch, what you don't do is jump through all of those stages and immediately go for the hardest distro you can find, this is one of the big reasons why people get discouraged with Linux, people who never used it are recommended by their friend who, admittedly knows a lot, Arch to start with, people coming off of windows are not used to using terminals and having to install a distro, let alone Arch-
FFS people, always recommend an easy distro for windows users to start with.
It's alright, I settled in
>tries mint
>tried to download discord
>there are 3 discords in the package manager search results
I'm happy that I don't need windows for anything in my workflow. I do some video editing which I use kdenlive for. Kdenlive reminds me of 2010 Sony Vegas so I actually like it.
The tragic thing is if Microsoft, you know did it's actual job and cared about it's products, I would still use windows. If they literally came out tomorrow with Windows 7 reborn edition I would get that and I would be fine.
I completely share your opinion, as I too was a Sony Vegas user, and now happily use Kdenlive. I switched to Kubuntu KDE Plasma about two years ago, and couldn't be more pleased.
sure, ill try kdenlive
whoever recommended arch is evil man, should've started with ubuntu or mint
too late
As far as I know, Figma is not owned by Adobe. The deal was cancelled (and thank God it was) in 2023 due to regulatory reasons
I may be wrong ofc
Is there any particular reason why you decided to use Wayland and not X11?
I switched to X11 yesterday, haha
It Is now the default in KDE and i think in gnome too. Wayland is now stable and better than x11 in 99% of cases
@@xBinyWolf the Wasteland is not better than X.
So you went from a Dumptruck (windows) to a racecar. From Edge to Bleeding Edge! When stability becomes your paradigm, then go for the Corolla ( Mint AKA Debian or Fedora) Boring but it gives you something priceless. Stress freedom!
My first time linux experience was : I installed arch 17 times, each time error cz I didn't know anything about linux then. Then I started my Linux journey with Fedora. After a few months, I got the real taste of linux, then I switched to Arch Linux. Now, enjoying arch with hyprland
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why would you pick Arch straight up… man pick Pop or Fedora to start with - or even just Ubuntu
its alright, not much complicated
I installed Nobara (Fedora derivative) and it was a LOT simpler than what seemed Arch Linux put you through.
You try Linux on hard mode, then say Linux is hard.
I wonder what your experience would be like if you tried a consumer-oriented distro like Ubuntu or POP_OS! instead of distro oriented at 1337 h4xorz like Arch.
Linux is hard when you want to do more than simple tasks.
@@1pcfred I'm not sure about that. On the one hand doing advanced stuff sometimes requires the terminal, but on the other hand if you know enough to be aware of those advanced things you can probably manage with a terminal. On the other hand most say to day stuff like installing and updating apps and the system, launching and using apps, changing settings, and managing your files is pretty easy.
What's left that's genuinely hard is fixing breakage or making unsupported stuff work.
@@Lestibournes there's definitely things I find challenging to impossible to do in Linux. I tried to compile the Vulkan SDK once. I couldn't do it. I've compiled quite a bit in Linux too. Including some things that would be considered impossible to do. Mostly involving getting incompatible libcs onto systems. Which is tricky stuff. I've had no success often trying to configure ALSA too. ~/.asoundrc D-Bus is a mystery to me. I don't use a DE but my system still has it in a limited capacity. If you poke around there's some perplexing stuff in Linux.
@@1pcfred Do you realize that you just illustrated my point?
@@1pcfred I mean, maybe what you're describing is easy to do on other systems, but at the same time it's advanced stuff that normal users would never even be aware of, let alone attempt.
bro did just speedrun to the "Arch Expereince" you mad lad HAHAHAHA
I can see you're falling down the Linux pipeline. Soon you'll switch your main computer to a Librebooted Thinkpad with Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre and constantly praise Richard Stallman as our lord and savior.
haha