Thanks DT for the review. I chose not to include any extra packages leaving the choice entirely up to the user. They can either bloat their system or make it minimal or anything else in between... Nothing is forced even rice. Total 4 choices as you so eloquently pointed out. Thanks again great and precise review...
@@Blessed2bFresh thanks B. It took me a while to grasp everything. And thanks to the ArcoLinux team for the amazing knowledge they have provided me. Best place to start is there... I am but a padawan learner and not a Jedi yet. Been using Linux 18 months only. I still have a long way ahead...
Installing more packages is better than removing bloat because the begginer user will break his system while doing such thing.(always think of the begginer user using his system)
Hello DT, many thanks indeed for this review. As a newly convert to the wonderful world of Linux in the past two years I have always had an urge to install and try Arch based distros but have always found them to be way off my limit to configure them the way I want. On the other hand when I chose Mint (my current system) I never thought one day I would consider another distro to install as I am so deeply attached to Mint that I will never divorce it but this XeroLinux is another thing. I am very grateful to you for putting the time in helping people like me. By the way when I began to install the XeroLinux the 4GB allocated by VMware was not seen to be enough by the distro and the installation would not continue so I had to give it 8GB to install. Ironically after the installation I shutdown and reduced the RAM back to 4096 and found no problem! Thank you so much mate!! Rgds, Bina
Not exactly. It has quite a bit more. For example has a pre-configured bashrc with many useful aliases, and in the installer (calamares) can select a ton of stuff, there's also snapper tool for btrfs and other stuff. As for look yeah what you said is correct. It's not only look though...
I think it looks really good. We need to stop judging Linux desktop by windows/macos standards because it's a different OS. The whole appeal of linux is the tinkering/customization and free software, and tbh you're never gonna please the people that think linux is too "ugly" or "unapproachable" cuz it's already been made approachable enough. Only real criticism is the shit support for gaming and lack of certain professional software
@@normalperson-x7o you call it an issue, but I think it’s part of the beauty of the open source ecosystem. Open source is inherently unfriendly to standardization and favors redundant solutions to one problem allowing ppl to express their taste w their software. It sound super wishy washy but that’s what it is
@bigmike obama I agree, “shit” is hyperbolic, but for your average gamers that mostly plays AAA titles your selection is gonna be much slimmer than w windows, so Linux just isn’t an equal choice for gaming. But I think solving the Linux gaming issue could really push both ecosystems forward, since tech nerds and gaming have some overlap
@bigmike obama I really think Linux has the potential be the hobby/gamer OS while macOS and windows could be for work/professional software development. If Linux could get gaming right it could literally be a game changer
I would pay to see these first-impressions/review videos alongside an ongoing interview with the creators/maintainers of the chosen distro. That way we would understand more about why the preferred software over other possibilities.
I agree. The Diolinux Portuguese-language channel did this, but just for for the Portuguese-speaking developers. It's really interesting, sometimes decisive, to know why they choose to do what they do. DT could do a lot more, being an English-speaking channel.
Their Gnome edition is dead according to the video that loads when you click the "gnome" button. Not that I would have used that edition anyhow, but just thought I'd mention it.
I think it's quite good and I prefer it's look over Garuda which I find to be a bit too much bling. And after going to the developers home page which has a lot of good info I'm tempted to give it a go. Great stuff DT.
Thanks for the kind words. Am releaing one final ISO before taking a break until summer which will be using a different rice. Nordic style. If you into it. If not it's ok.
So I thought I would give this Distro of Linux a try with an install. I placed it on one of my other hard drives and so far everything works. Blender, OBS, and VLC work out of the box without trying to figure out what to tweak and change to get it to work. Those are the main programs that I need to work and several other Distros have failed in that area.
It’s basically Garuda minus the memory hunger. Only uses 1.2GB of RAM instead of Garuda which uses almost double that - and that’s when it’s running in Live USB mode. Definitely would recommend.
Derek, this video spurred me into grabbing Xero and checking out the live usb. I am really very impressed with it. I mostly run Gaaruda and it was my winkiller distro. This distro bears a lot of similarity to Garuda. I'd call it a Garuda lite of sorts. I am also going to bang around on it as a virt manager installation and maybe do an installation on one of my laptops. It really is a pretty distro and very tasteful in appearance. Thank you so much for this upload and your impressions. I do highly regard your opinion! Be blessed!!!
Nice distro. Personally, I prefer a little bit more "plain" graphics, there is too much going on visually, but it is good that there are not too many things installed by default.
There's nothing but what comes with KDE. Everything else up to you to install or not. All I did was give it a fresh coat of paint. Nothing more. If too much then install Vanilla Arch with plain KDE. Imo it's too boring...
ill have to give this a try, looks great EDIT:[ VirtualBox ] Gave it a few goes, one with the opensource and one with the nvidia and both gave me a black screen, tried a second time with the open source drivers and just a black screen with no cursor.
I like the arco vibes however it comes with all kind of tiling WM editions, pre-configured. I just tweak config files a little then i'm good to go. If i have to install and configure the tiling wm from ground myself, then i'll use vanilla arch to do so.
I used to daily drive Xero and then something with my windows dual boot messed everything up for gaming and I couldn't get things working again. Although since they've now got a Dracula theme I'm very keen to give it a look
6:56 - since they claim its an eye candy UI, it's a shame they didn't bother to fix the buttons and textbox extending outside the bounds of the dialog box 🤦🏻
Lol I spotted that too. I wonder if that's a VM issue as they use different video drivers. I doubt that would've been missed if it was a bug in live systems!
You have the choice during installation to install whichever you prefer. As for Vivaldi can uninstall in one sec. I made it default coz that's what I use and have been since inception. I love it nothing else comes close to its features. And I don't mind it being proprietary... Choices choices...
I am a beginner and have only experimented with Xubuntu on an ancient Mac, and I am astounded by what Linux can do with such old hardware. However, I worry about the Linux world. Why? Because so much effort seems to go into creating countless new distros. It seems to me this is a wasteful (and lazy) use of resources. Shouldn't people who know how to code rather contribute to making FOSS much better? Isn't that where you need to compete with what giants like Adobe delivers to users? I was ready to switch from Mac to Linux, and due to DT I was going to aim for an Arch based distro, but one thing stopped me. My business entails offset printing, and that means I need to be able to use amazing software like GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, and Scribus and have them deliver dependable, professional results in the CMYK color space. Last I looked into this situation, all sorts of workarounds were required, and that just won't do it for me, and I am sure equivalent limitations are holding FOSS back in other areas. Coders should contribute to making Linux apps as pro as Win/Mac apps. We already have enough file managers and desktop icon sets.
The OS looks fantastic. I will be giving it spin. One issue and that is you should be talking up Vivaldi. It my be proprietary but it might as well be open source. Vivaldi goes out of their way to remove code that invades your privacy that Google seems to love to add to Chromium and Chrome.
Proprietary is more than just the code access. As long as the project is controlled by a private group and license, there are much more limitations and risks posed to using it from a FOSS advocate's perspective. A bit like how Android has AOSP which, while open source, is still largely proprietary and places a lot of trust on a business that does not necessarily have the same vision for its project as other contributors.
Ah, so synapse is where I picked up the "press down to scroll through recent actions" thing. It's been over a decade and I still try to do that even though my current launcher doesn't have that feature.
Cool distro 🇬🇷 I like your rice themes and options. There's a little bug with neofetch. When dt switched to zsh, the prompt still says bash is the shell.
5:07 had you chosen to encrypt on the previous screen then you could have chosen to login without a password. This avoids having to use 2 passwords to get into the machine, and the data is actually protected when you turn the pc off.
I read XeroX Linux 😅 Luckely it isn't a distro for printing and scanning enthousiasts. Like the default theming, looks clean and modern. Kinda eyeballing arch these days for my development environment, but afraid that the rolling dependencies will cost me more time than the benefits in my case as a developer. Anyone experienced with this use case? (Doing c++, python, rust development).
I installed it on my system and looks great (love the transparency all across), works great except for updates fail all the time. keep getting this - transaction failed error. upon installation, it says to update your system before using. so this is pretty much a no update os as per my experience. so theres troubleshooting right after a fresh installation. tried even sudo pacman Syu and no joy. so the whole thing is that if the update facility is not functional, then the os cannot fix itself ever and is in a closed loop. then another thing i noticed is switching themes destroys the whole arrangement of things and if you want to switch back to the default out of the box theme, you will have to do a lot of manual work which includes re-adding the latte dock and removing the default kde dock. i dont know if this is normal but the window buttons (minimize, maximize) are blank circles until you mouse over them.
Personally, I don't like any of these "eyecandy" arch spin distros. Though I am a self-proclaimed fan of pretty graphical design, distros like these simply try way _too_ hard to be _Æ S T H E T I C_ Specifically, a "cyberpunk / pro-gamer" ÆSTHETIC where everything is neon colors, background blur, transparency, and goddamn those "sweet" icons. I mean, I like _most_ of those things, but altogether in that ÆSTHETIC package, is just visually _WAY TOO MUCH!_ I mean, sure, it's pretty. But give my eyes some space to breathe! I like transparency with background blur, docks, and bright neon colors as much as the next girl, but don't turn everything up past 11... keep things just a bit simpler... my desktop should be a place where I want to work everyday... not look like every TH-cam gamer's recording studio. 😂 I think I've said too much already...
DT, this is a really nice demo. Can you do some presentation on a distro which can handle hiDPI and multi monitors? Because after few years of distro hoping, I still haven't came across a distro which can handle this.
Hey DT, how do you change your videos so much? Sometimes you're here in the studio other times you're out in the woods and even have beard and mustache?
oh its much better than Garuda. Garuda blinds you with unreadable icons, and this is usable :) I would actually use XeroLinux, but unfortunately I stumbled on some wine/lutris problems (I game a little, and maybe they could be solvable after some effort) and those problems simply did not exist on Ubuntu Unity or Kubuntu, so for now I am on a debian team, but XeroLinux rocks. It is THE OS to be shown whenever someone doubts Linux is a thing.
Hey DT, In your installation videos you always mention that you give 4 GB of RAM and 2 threads to an OS. Does it matter how much RAM you allocate per OS in VM ? I have laptop with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD, and I run several distros in a VM mode. Should I worry about allocating a certain number of gig per RAM in the VM (unless we run the OS simultaneously ) ? I generally allocate about 5 or 6 gigs of RAM per OS ( I have installed over 12 OS in VM, but only run one at a time).
never heard before about xerolinux. i'll give it a try on my mac pro 1,1/2,1 (2006 with firmware from 2007) and hope that this distribution not "burn" cpu core 1 on cpu a (linux mint does that)...
thanks for the review DT just finished watching the video my view on kde rices and the state of linux de's (esp. kde) has not changed. this is unfixable and is a terrible experience.
Too bad HefftorLinux is a dead meme now. I still have it installed on my Storage PC. Killed their repos n removed their packages... Now it's just Arch... But yeah inspiration came from those you mentioned
Pretty sure, but the design is not coherent. Broken lightdm, stupid color palette (no respect for color theory), mismatching icons, and horrible fonts. And oh God that grub theme. What the hell were they thinking? Once again, they fail to create a cohesive desktop environment. Default plasma looks 10x more cohesive.
If you could do better then by all means do it. But haters gonna hate ig... Am sorry you feel that way. You dislike it, you have the right to, but no need to go off like that...
Looks nice. For me it's a bit too much, but hey, who am I? There are 2 things that I don't get. Pamac? That is made for Manjaro and prone to break a lot. And 2 filemanagers, Thunar and Dolphin? And I don't fancy those extra repository's.
Hey DT. Why do you keep calling Vivaldi proprietary software? The only non-open source component is the skin. Everything that needs to be free and open source such as the browser itself, ad blocker and tracking blocker is FOSS. We appreciate open source because it gives us peace of mind when it comes to privacy and security. A skin is pretty much just png files. They can't collect data on you using a bunch of png files.
DT I love antix Linux on my old labtop it runs great it’s almost perfect but it’s not it’s not easy to configure the WiFi settings takes a long time to understand and am not enjoying the experience every thing else is smooth and fast it’s amazing but the menu system and default apps use are too outdated and need too much tweaking to work I don’t have time for that I just want something simple that just works is there any antix fork that’s user friendly and fast and smooth and works on old hardware I can use?
I see no Eye Candy, it looks like every other Distro out there with their boring flat windows with flat window control buttons. The X to close the window is just a X, and not a 3-D looking button like in Mac 10.1 Puma thru 10.9 Mavericks. All these operating systems are the same, Windows 10, Mac OS, they too all have flat graphics for their windows, Icons, start menus buttons and panels. It's not like the days of Windows XP and versions of Mac OS that looked like Mavericks. Now even Linux Mint Cinnamon is following this trend because 21.1 no longer has the Window Borders option in the Themes Settings. This is not the days EGA where computers could not handle complex detailed graphics with millions of colors. Even a Entry level PC with built in Graphics that use part of the System RAM for it's video graphics can easily display a GUI that looks like Mac OS 10.1 through 10.9. I should be able to fully customize the look of my Operating System to more than just slight variants of the default interface or theme.
Thanks DT for the review. I chose not to include any extra packages leaving the choice entirely up to the user. They can either bloat their system or make it minimal or anything else in between... Nothing is forced even rice. Total 4 choices as you so eloquently pointed out.
Thanks again great and precise review...
I love the part you said that the rice is optional, thank you
Great work! I aspire to be able (one day) competent enough to have the talent and ability to create a distro/spin such as yourself. Truly phenomenal.
@@Blessed2bFresh thanks B. It took me a while to grasp everything. And thanks to the ArcoLinux team for the amazing knowledge they have provided me. Best place to start is there... I am but a padawan learner and not a Jedi yet. Been using Linux 18 months only. I still have a long way ahead...
Installing more packages is better than removing bloat because the begginer user will break his system while doing such thing.(always think of the begginer user using his system)
@@AlbertoMontesSoto default one is not optional but if you don't like it there are 3 others to choose from...
You hit the nail on the head; it's very macOS-like visually. I don't see that as a bad thing. Thank for this, dt!
Never been a fan of any of the Arch based KDE distros but this one is - wow!
Hehehe.. Nice.. Thanks
Hello DT, many thanks indeed for this review. As a newly convert to the wonderful world of Linux in the past two years I have always had an urge to install and try Arch based distros but have always found them to be way off my limit to configure them the way I want. On the other hand when I chose Mint (my current system) I never thought one day I would consider another distro to install as I am so deeply attached to Mint that I will never divorce it but this XeroLinux is another thing.
I am very grateful to you for putting the time in helping people like me.
By the way when I began to install the XeroLinux the 4GB allocated by VMware was not seen to be enough by the distro and the installation would not continue so I had to give it 8GB to install. Ironically after the installation I shutdown and reduced the RAM back to 4096 and found no problem!
Thank you so much mate!!
Rgds, Bina
The 'strong and complicated password' bit always gets me
Wow that looks stunning. I might try it out actually.
I got almost the same look and feel on my plain arch install. It's literally arch + layan theme + latte dock and some other minor extras.
Not exactly. It has quite a bit more. For example has a pre-configured bashrc with many useful aliases, and in the installer (calamares) can select a ton of stuff, there's also snapper tool for btrfs and other stuff. As for look yeah what you said is correct. It's not only look though...
Hi. Thanks for the heads up on this fantastic distro. And well done XeroLinux.
Thanks... 👍
I think it looks really good. We need to stop judging Linux desktop by windows/macos standards because it's a different OS. The whole appeal of linux is the tinkering/customization and free software, and tbh you're never gonna please the people that think linux is too "ugly" or "unapproachable" cuz it's already been made approachable enough. Only real criticism is the shit support for gaming and lack of certain professional software
Nah mate, I think fragmentation is the real issue here.
@@normalperson-x7o you call it an issue, but I think it’s part of the beauty of the open source ecosystem. Open source is inherently unfriendly to standardization and favors redundant solutions to one problem allowing ppl to express their taste w their software. It sound super wishy washy but that’s what it is
@bigmike obama I agree, “shit” is hyperbolic, but for your average gamers that mostly plays AAA titles your selection is gonna be much slimmer than w windows, so Linux just isn’t an equal choice for gaming. But I think solving the Linux gaming issue could really push both ecosystems forward, since tech nerds and gaming have some overlap
@bigmike obama I really think Linux has the potential be the hobby/gamer OS while macOS and windows could be for work/professional software development. If Linux could get gaming right it could literally be a game changer
I would pay to see these first-impressions/review videos alongside an ongoing interview with the creators/maintainers of the chosen distro. That way we would understand more about why the preferred software over other possibilities.
I agree. The Diolinux Portuguese-language channel did this, but just for for the Portuguese-speaking developers. It's really interesting, sometimes decisive, to know why they choose to do what they do. DT could do a lot more, being an English-speaking channel.
How fitting to review a beautiful distro on Valentine's Day. I almost want to marry the distro!
Match made in heaven?
Lol... Nice one thanks
@@XeroLinux wait you are the real one?
@@partha2806 Usually fake accounts nowadays are peddling a scam or virus. I doubt it's a fake account lol
@@IndellableHatesHandles just check the Channel for once
Their Gnome edition is dead according to the video that loads when you click the "gnome" button. Not that I would have used that edition anyhow, but just thought I'd mention it.
Wow this is great stuff DT. Planning to try this new distro.
Hey DT one of your vid’s popped up at work today! Thanks for your help
The strong and complicated password always get me 😂😂
Thank you for reviewing this 🐧
I think it's quite good and I prefer it's look over Garuda which I find to be a bit too much bling.
And after going to the developers home page which has a lot of good info I'm tempted to give it a go.
Great stuff DT.
Thanks for the kind words. Am releaing one final ISO before taking a break until summer which will be using a different rice. Nordic style. If you into it. If not it's ok.
So I thought I would give this Distro of Linux a try with an install. I placed it on one of my other hard drives and so far everything works. Blender, OBS, and VLC work out of the box without trying to figure out what to tweak and change to get it to work. Those are the main programs that I need to work and several other Distros have failed in that area.
Thanks. Glad it's working for ya...
the grub screen and your reaction I had to play that part again, that was very amusing haha
Nice Distro. Ran across it and baked onto bare metal with 55". Its sweet, clean and snappy! I'm enjoying it.
Glad you like it.
Wow this distro looks cool
>vivaldi
>spotify
Nevermind.
That Samurai Cyberpunk 2077 GRUB loader is so over the top that I honestly adore it.
Awww he's missing half the eye candy. :(
This distro really shines in a virtualbox or natively on a machine because of hardware acceleration.
I guess this is the perfect choice for a regular user. just browsing and multimedia. the look is amazing
the strong and complicated password always cracks me up ! :)
It’s basically Garuda minus the memory hunger. Only uses 1.2GB of RAM instead of Garuda which uses almost double that - and that’s when it’s running in Live USB mode.
Definitely would recommend.
Empty RAM is wasted RAM
@@the-real-zpero an idling desktop shouldnt consume all your ram, if anything *thats* what would be wasteful :/
I like how DT is spamming distro reviews now when he actually complained about that a week ago.
The duality of man
Men, Arch Linux have some of the best Linux distros ever. First Endevor os, then Garuda Linux, and now this.🤩🤩🤩
Derek, this video spurred me into grabbing Xero and checking out the live usb. I am really very impressed with it. I mostly run Gaaruda and it was my winkiller distro. This distro bears a lot of similarity to Garuda. I'd call it a Garuda lite of sorts. I am also going to bang around on it as a virt manager installation and maybe do an installation on one of my laptops. It really is a pretty distro and very tasteful in appearance. Thank you so much for this upload and your impressions. I do highly regard your opinion! Be blessed!!!
Looks pretty cool, maybe it will help the future of Linux.
Found my new arch linux distro , it just looks soo amazing 💜🙏🏻
This is a super nice distro. Thanks for sharing.
Nice distro. Personally, I prefer a little bit more "plain" graphics, there is too much going on visually, but it is good that there are not too many things installed by default.
There's nothing but what comes with KDE. Everything else up to you to install or not. All I did was give it a fresh coat of paint. Nothing more. If too much then install Vanilla Arch with plain KDE. Imo it's too boring...
@@XeroLinux That’s what I did, and then customized to taste myself.
@@DrDiemotma Cool. That's why I love Linux. Well enjoy your setup...
AIO=All In One -- it's also used for off the shelf water cooling systems
ill have to give this a try, looks great
EDIT:[ VirtualBox ] Gave it a few goes, one with the opensource and one with the nvidia and both gave me a black screen, tried a second time with the open source drivers and just a black screen with no cursor.
Could be an issue with vBox. Have you updated it? Also I haven't used vBox in ages I use VirtManager as DT did in video works well.
Wow this distro is stunning! Thanks for reviewing this.
Please do a installation of Alpine Linux with DWM(setup like DE) DT sir.
Congrats on 200k
I like the arco vibes however it comes with all kind of tiling WM editions, pre-configured. I just tweak config files a little then i'm good to go. If i have to install and configure the tiling wm from ground myself, then i'll use vanilla arch to do so.
Man, Linux desktop is getting rich day by day, this is another nice looking distro.
I used to daily drive Xero and then something with my windows dual boot messed everything up for gaming and I couldn't get things working again. Although since they've now got a Dracula theme I'm very keen to give it a look
When windows dual boot messed up for me I just deleted windows lmao. No point nowadays when most of my fave games run Linux pretty well/natively
6:56 - since they claim its an eye candy UI, it's a shame they didn't bother to fix the buttons and textbox extending outside the bounds of the dialog box 🤦🏻
Lol I spotted that too. I wonder if that's a VM issue as they use different video drivers. I doubt that would've been missed if it was a bug in live systems!
It's a virtualbox thing
This is better than Arco because I can easily navigate their website. lol
Digging your shirt DT!
Of course you'd go with FISH over ZSH.... and that's because you can eat fish but not ZSH!
I will have to try this distro soon...thanks.
I've been using CachyOS lately. It's still a pretty small distro. Have you thought about doing a video on it yet?
Vivaldi being the default browser didn't make any sense to me. Should've been Librewolf or Chromium instead
You have the choice during installation to install whichever you prefer. As for Vivaldi can uninstall in one sec. I made it default coz that's what I use and have been since inception. I love it nothing else comes close to its features. And I don't mind it being proprietary... Choices choices...
I hope they have some dot files available. I'd love to steal some of these looks.
Check my Github 👍
I am a beginner and have only experimented with Xubuntu on an ancient Mac, and I am astounded by what Linux can do with such old hardware. However, I worry about the Linux world. Why? Because so much effort seems to go into creating countless new distros. It seems to me this is a wasteful (and lazy) use of resources. Shouldn't people who know how to code rather contribute to making FOSS much better? Isn't that where you need to compete with what giants like Adobe delivers to users? I was ready to switch from Mac to Linux, and due to DT I was going to aim for an Arch based distro, but one thing stopped me. My business entails offset printing, and that means I need to be able to use amazing software like GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, and Scribus and have them deliver dependable, professional results in the CMYK color space. Last I looked into this situation, all sorts of workarounds were required, and that just won't do it for me, and I am sure equivalent limitations are holding FOSS back in other areas. Coders should contribute to making Linux apps as pro as Win/Mac apps. We already have enough file managers and desktop icon sets.
Part of vivaldi is open source(modification to the chromium engine) so it is mixed source.
Exactly. Thank you...
The OS looks fantastic. I will be giving it spin. One issue and that is you should be talking up Vivaldi. It my be proprietary but it might as well be open source. Vivaldi goes out of their way to remove code that invades your privacy that Google seems to love to add to Chromium and Chrome.
Proprietary is more than just the code access. As long as the project is controlled by a private group and license, there are much more limitations and risks posed to using it from a FOSS advocate's perspective. A bit like how Android has AOSP which, while open source, is still largely proprietary and places a lot of trust on a business that does not necessarily have the same vision for its project as other contributors.
I just installed it after I couldn't get MX-Linux to install 1-7 correctly or my printer. This distro installed the system completely.
Almost year old, but still WooooW, for an Arch (btw...) :)
Ah, so synapse is where I picked up the "press down to scroll through recent actions" thing.
It's been over a decade and I still try to do that even though my current launcher doesn't have that feature.
the grub screen is one of the grub theme of CTT(Chris Titus Tech)
dt: enter your strong and complicated password
password : "**"
Cool distro 🇬🇷
I like your rice themes and options.
There's a little bug with neofetch.
When dt switched to zsh, the prompt still says bash is the shell.
You need to logout for the new shell take effect, thats why it says bash
@@akira9449 ah ok, didn't know that... 👍
If you like Grub screens, the Garuda grubscreen alone is worthy of installation of the distro.
Your camera video looks great, what’s your settings?
5:07 had you chosen to encrypt on the previous screen then you could have chosen to login without a password. This avoids having to use 2 passwords to get into the machine, and the data is actually protected when you turn the pc off.
I read XeroX Linux 😅
Luckely it isn't a distro for printing and scanning enthousiasts.
Like the default theming, looks clean and modern. Kinda eyeballing arch these days for my development environment, but afraid that the rolling dependencies will cost me more time than the benefits in my case as a developer. Anyone experienced with this use case? (Doing c++, python, rust development).
Rust works fine and so does python, and aur covers any software or libraries not in the standard repos
Love the T Shirt !
I installed it on my system and looks great (love the transparency all across), works great except for updates fail all the time. keep getting this - transaction failed error. upon installation, it says to update your system before using. so this is pretty much a no update os as per my experience. so theres troubleshooting right after a fresh installation. tried even sudo pacman Syu and no joy. so the whole thing is that if the update facility is not functional, then the os cannot fix itself ever and is in a closed loop. then another thing i noticed is switching themes destroys the whole arrangement of things and if you want to switch back to the default out of the box theme, you will have to do a lot of manual work which includes re-adding the latte dock and removing the default kde dock. i dont know if this is normal but the window buttons (minimize, maximize) are blank circles until you mouse over them.
When u r an american: "American English? Yeah, American English is fine for me"
I have the same grub theme, it's "CyberRe" theme.
Hey DT what's your thoughts adding something like plasma shell to tiling window managers
Personally, I don't like any of these "eyecandy" arch spin distros.
Though I am a self-proclaimed fan of pretty graphical design,
distros like these simply try way _too_ hard to be _Æ S T H E T I C_
Specifically, a "cyberpunk / pro-gamer" ÆSTHETIC where everything
is neon colors, background blur, transparency, and goddamn those "sweet" icons.
I mean, I like _most_ of those things, but altogether in that ÆSTHETIC package,
is just visually _WAY TOO MUCH!_ I mean, sure, it's pretty. But give my eyes some space to breathe!
I like transparency with background blur, docks, and bright neon colors as much as the next girl,
but don't turn everything up past 11... keep things just a bit simpler... my desktop should be a place
where I want to work everyday... not look like every TH-cam gamer's recording studio. 😂
I think I've said too much already...
I don't know why, but I absolutely hate the candy icon set.
You're not alone on that
I think that grub theme is made by Chris Titus tech
DT, this is a really nice demo.
Can you do some presentation on a distro which can handle hiDPI and multi monitors?
Because after few years of distro hoping, I still haven't came across a distro which can handle this.
We NEED a real alternative to wallpaper engine, nothing hacky or jank. Straight up animated/sound-reactive background tools with repo ability.
Hey DT, how do you change your videos so much? Sometimes you're here in the studio other times you're out in the woods and even have beard and mustache?
oh its much better than Garuda. Garuda blinds you with unreadable icons, and this is usable :)
I would actually use XeroLinux, but unfortunately I stumbled on some wine/lutris problems (I game a little, and maybe they could be solvable after some effort) and those problems simply did not exist on Ubuntu Unity or Kubuntu, so for now I am on a debian team, but XeroLinux rocks. It is THE OS to be shown whenever someone doubts Linux is a thing.
Hey DT, In your installation videos you always mention that you give 4 GB of RAM and 2 threads to an OS. Does it matter how much RAM you allocate per OS in VM ? I have laptop with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD, and I run several distros in a VM mode. Should I worry about allocating a certain number of gig per RAM in the VM (unless we run the OS simultaneously ) ? I generally allocate about 5 or 6 gigs of RAM per OS ( I have installed over 12 OS in VM, but only run one at a time).
If you’re not gonna be using that much RAM, there’s no need to allocate it. The common rule of thumb is not to give a VM more than half of your RAM.
I'm switching to XeroLinux for that sexy ass bootloader 🤣
It's pretty much arcolinux with a rice
A bit of kvantum would do the trick 👌
Theoretically you could install the desktop environment on any distribution since that is what the eyecandy is right? ....
never heard before about xerolinux. i'll give it a try on my mac pro 1,1/2,1 (2006 with firmware from 2007) and hope that this distribution not "burn" cpu core 1 on cpu a (linux mint does that)...
No promises. Mac is way above my pay grade
thanks for the review DT just finished watching the video
my view on kde rices and the state of linux de's (esp. kde) has not changed. this is unfixable and is a terrible experience.
Xero looks similar to Hefftor Linux and PeuxOS and a little bit to EndeavourOS
Too bad HefftorLinux is a dead meme now. I still have it installed on my Storage PC. Killed their repos n removed their packages... Now it's just Arch... But yeah inspiration came from those you mentioned
Pretty sure, but the design is not coherent. Broken lightdm, stupid color palette (no respect for color theory), mismatching icons, and horrible fonts.
And oh God that grub theme. What the hell were they thinking?
Once again, they fail to create a cohesive desktop environment. Default plasma looks 10x more cohesive.
Calm down picasso
@@sparkledowner it even looks ugly af compared to windows.
Yes
@@gettriggered_ian3269 well i wouldn't go that far.
If you could do better then by all means do it. But haters gonna hate ig... Am sorry you feel that way. You dislike it, you have the right to, but no need to go off like that...
Hey! What do your mean by eye candy?
It really catches my ears and eyes I wanna know!
Looks nice. For me it's a bit too much, but hey, who am I?
There are 2 things that I don't get.
Pamac? That is made for Manjaro and prone to break a lot.
And 2 filemanagers, Thunar and Dolphin?
And I don't fancy those extra repository's.
So, Xero or Garuda? Which one would you choose?
Do have any idea on how to run this distro on a TrueNAS virtualization?
It looks like macchina rather than neofetch :)
"What is AIO?" 10:52
AIO = "All in one"
IEAIAIO
WHYYYYYY
and we light up the sky
They hit it out of the park if that was their goal. 😂
wowowowoww
Why do I have Stanley Parable vibes? Am I that drunk? Daaaaaamn......
I think it would have prefered or recommended settings
Hey DT. Why do you keep calling Vivaldi proprietary software? The only non-open source component is the skin. Everything that needs to be free and open source such as the browser itself, ad blocker and tracking blocker is FOSS. We appreciate open source because it gives us peace of mind when it comes to privacy and security. A skin is pretty much just png files. They can't collect data on you using a bunch of png files.
DT I love antix Linux on my old labtop it runs great it’s almost perfect but it’s not it’s not easy to configure the WiFi settings takes a long time to understand and am not enjoying the experience every thing else is smooth and fast it’s amazing but the menu system and default apps use are too outdated and need too much tweaking to work I don’t have time for that I just want something simple that just works is there any antix fork that’s user friendly and fast and smooth and works on old hardware I can use?
6:34 Now that's a Cyperpunk 2077 grub screen, very nice. Wet dream certified
Not by me. CyberRe is on Pling... Though I got my own themes opted for this one lol
Reminds me of Garuda Linux Dragonized edition.
I see no Eye Candy, it looks like every other Distro out there with their boring flat windows with flat window control buttons. The X to close the window is just a X, and not a 3-D looking button like in Mac 10.1 Puma thru 10.9 Mavericks.
All these operating systems are the same, Windows 10, Mac OS, they too all have flat graphics for their windows, Icons, start menus buttons and panels. It's not like the days of Windows XP and versions of Mac OS that looked like Mavericks. Now even Linux Mint Cinnamon is following this trend because 21.1 no longer has the Window Borders option in the Themes Settings.
This is not the days EGA where computers could not handle complex detailed graphics with millions of colors. Even a Entry level PC with built in Graphics that use part of the System RAM for it's video graphics can easily display a GUI that looks like Mac OS 10.1 through 10.9. I should be able to fully customize the look of my Operating System to more than just slight variants of the default interface or theme.
I heard Linux Torvalds just stole this from Xerox and then dressed it up.
And I JUST hopped to Garuda... hmm...