This channel is about Linux with a focus on Arch Linux. However, I will also be looking at other Linux distributions. I may also look at other systems such as Windows, Apple and Android devices.
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I assume no responsibility for any problems or damage that may happen to your computer and operating systems. Before you follow any instructions in my videos, please do some research. If you decide to use my configs, follow my advice, or wipe out your operating system and install Linux do the following: Backup all your personal files, make sure you have your Windows product key in case you need to reinstall it. It would be wise to have an extra working computer with Windows in case something goes wrong, and it would be a good idea to have a tech savvy friend available in the event you need help. You should also consider trying Linux on a thumb drive or in a VM before wiping out your system. It's impossible to give tech support in comments below videos.
Just an FYI regarding text editors, Easy Editor is included with the base install of FreeBSD and can be invoked "ee filename". I enjoyed the video and have subscribed to the channel.
Hi Mench, Thanks for your Video It's a beautiful present to make available your repositories & configs to everybody as they'll save lot of config time!
My daily driver is Arch Linux. I often make videos on other operating systems and/or distributions that I don’t necessarily use on a daily basis. I do this for those who are interested and to bring variety to my channel.
great tutorial sir, but me unable to edit and save after "sudo vim /etc/passwd, keyboard keys not behaving normally, how to change "bash to zsh" and save, me stuck here, after saving neofetch showing BASH 5.2.15 insted of zsh, guidance needed . i am noob at linux
I am confused with the FreeBSD versions... 13.4 is a more recent release than 14.1 and seems to have some more up to date components...? What would be the practical use differences between 13.4 and 14.1? Why should I choose one over the other?
13.4 recently received security updates. The whole 13 series end of life is April 2026. The 14 series has newer features and end of life is November 2028. One thing I don't like about the OS, and I should have mentioned it in my conclusion, is that there are far too many ISO's and it's confusing. You can read bout the EOL here: www.freebsd.org/security/
Hi, thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it. I never installed it on bare metal, only in VM's. You can read about the hw requirements here: www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/hardware/
Thanks for the enjoyable and informative videos! These must help a ton of users. Since you demo the command line stuff so well, is there any chance of making a video on the pass password manager? It's the standard UNIX password manager (some distros call it password-store), available to all Linuces and is run from the command line. Good if you are not so inclined to use proprietary stuff like Bitwarden, 1password etc, etc. There is also a GUI PC app for pass called QTPass for those who prefer that, as well as various browser extensions for accessing the password-store directly from a browser login page.
You’re welcome. Thanks for the positive feedback; I really appreciate it. I use KeepassXC. It’s an easy to use graphical app available in most Linux distributions. The password manager is stored on your hard drive, not in the cloud. It’s easy to copy it on to a thumb drive for safe keeping. I played with pass a few years ago, but never really used it. I will consider reacquainting myself with it and perhaps making a video. Thanks for the suggestion.
Just tried Manjaro Gnome via Gnome-Boxes and I had the same problem that you had,so it look's like it may be a general VM problem but I have not tried bare metal.
Sir, i was using lmde 6 but due to only 4 gb ram ,i installed antix after watching your video, its very lightweight for my laptop, but i am struggling to see my android devices in the file manager or on the desktop , like it show on desktop in LMDE 6, i tried a lot of solutions, nothing seems to work, i tried 4-5 android devices, please make a fix for this sir, i need antix back😢, going back to Lmde 6 , untill i found a solution
Hi, I don't know why your android devices are not showing in Antix. LMDE is a great distribution. Perhaps it has all the proper drivers installed by default so that your Android devices connect easily. Since Ram is an issue for you, try this solution: after installing LMDE, install the Awesome Window manager and log into it. Awesome uses half the Ram of the Cinnamon Desktop. With Awesome, your connected device won't show on the desktop, but it will show in Nemo your file manager. Try watching this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QpxnQsom4AQ.html
I didn’t delete any of your messages and I thought I responded to them. I think RU-vid is overloaded with millions of messages and malfunctions sometimes.
Imagine 200 versions of Windows with limited compatibility between them. I sort of hate aMeSs's guts, but why? YAFUD et nother cking istro Linus's Linux kernel is great and the bits it comes with. Him complaining about how difficult it is for app dev to create packages for the desktop distros - sow and thou will harvest
I left Debian after many years to go with Arch. Arch taught me much about systemd and Linux as a whole. The more I learned about systemd, the more I disliked what is going on. With the creator working for MS, I see a direction that a distro with systemd is going and it is a unwelcome for me. And besides, Artix Linux is much simpler, uses much less resources than Arch Linux. I have been using Artix Linux for over a year (OpenRC version) without any major problems.
How did you learn OpenRC? The information in the Artix website was not very helpful. Is there a good cheat sheet available for OpenRC running within Artix? I think Artix has different folders than other distros for Runit and OpenRC.
@@linuxmench2118 I wrote a positive comment for two reasons: first, I asked for and you did a review of Artix linux. The second reason is because I think your work should be promoted. As for your negative reactions to this Linux distro, everything you said in your comments is written in the documentation. You needed to install the ufw-runit package and, as with systemd, make the service start when the computer is turned on. The command is very simple ln -s /etc/runit/sv/ufw /run/runit/service.
Thanks again for your support. As for the promotion of my channel, I can't help but wonder if I did something to dissuade the RU-vid algorithm from promoting my channel. Newer Linux channels of lesser quality (imho) are doing much better than my channel regarding views and subscriptions. The commands you posted worked, ufw now turns on after booting into the system. Thanks for the tip. Now, I'll have to do a followup video on Artix. First, I'll have to familiarize myself with the system.
I'm not sure if you're joking or asking a serious question. I will reiterate what I said in the latter part of the video. When using Arch or an Arch based system, one must be willing to do things in the terminal, like turning on and off services and enabling or disabling them to be on or off when booting into the system. If you're using Manjaro or Endeavour, it may not be as critical because they use the more commonly available Systemd and they have full functioning graphical applications. To me, Artix appears to be more Arch and terminal based than the others. If you're going to use Artix, you should know how to use Runit or OpenRC because Systemd is not available and some services cannot be set to start at boot-up from the graphical application.
Thanks for the review....Artix seems to be made for people who knows archlinux very well but don't want systemD...I'm just a regular user....Best wishes....
I didn't think of checking out the Void website. However, the Artix website states in their system, Runit is situated in different folders. So I doubt if instructions from Arch and Void would have worked.
Hi Mench. Thanks for the tutorial. You're so easy to watch and listen to as you don't rush through everything and it's very easy to follow along. Thanks again.
Watch most of your videos. Keep up the good work! I did things like this when I was working on getting Arch running on many different Android tablets and phones... Question: How do you get the command execute time on the command line? I know you use zsh but I'm using bash... Thanks again and keep the videos coming!!!!
Thanks for the positive feedback, I really appreciate it. Arch on tablets and phones, no doubt that’s a challenge. I think you’re referring to the time it takes to run a process in the terminal as displayed in this particular video. This is the result of the Zsh configuration files that come with Manjaro. I didn’t configure anything. I was thinking of copying it to my pure Arch computers until I realized Manjaro has Zsh running from various configuration files placed in different folders in the system. It looked too complicated, so I didn’t bother. If you’re referring to the Zsh configuration file that displays the time in the terminal as seen in all my Arch videos, that configuration file is available to download from my Gitlab repository. Sorry, I don’t know how to configure Bash, I don’t use it.
@@linuxmench2118 Artix Linux is a rolling-release distribution, based on Arch Linux. It uses real init systems, because PID1 must be simple, secure and stable.
For Gnome GDM, they use Comtrol + Alt + F1. I never liked Gnome. Other DE use F7. Gnome is bloated. Manjaro XFCE is more stable. I also hope they support MATE more. Or, i mostly use WM as my daily driver. DEs are for the staff use only.
I spend most of my time in WMs too. Yes, I noticed Gnome was on F1 and I thought it strange since most display managers use F7. XFCE is lighter and more stable.
For your problem login with blank screen... when you drop to TTY you could use the CLI command "sudo journalctl -b" to see what the logs say since boot. That might give you a clue, even if it is not an error.
Well the Manjaro and kde desktop hasn’t shown any issue with waylaid. A little slower but otherwise was working as expected. That was after a substantial update. In opensuse my daily driver never had an issue but that’s suse for you.
Sorry for asking external questions here, I completely installed Linux mint on my laptop by erasing full disk completely but in UEFI's Boot priority menu still showing Windows. How can I remove this?
Even though I infrequently make videos on Manjaro, my daily driver is Arch. Yes, you're correct, using the AUR in Manjaro can cause problems. Even in Arch, I try to stick with apps in the official repository rather than the AUR.
Thank you so much for this moment 42:55 I try using the other method and it didn't work. I also use your method and make sure to copy the grubx64.efi file to boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi due to my old motherbaord and now it works🎉
Back in the day when computers came with little ram, swap was necessary. Today, computers come with at least 8gb of ram and many come with 16 or 32gb of ram. If you install LMDE, it will automatically match the swap with your ram. If you have 32gb of ram, it will give you 32gb of swap. I think that is a real waste of hard drive space. If you open gnome-system-monitor or htop, it will show you how little swap your computer is actually using, if any. Having said that, if your computer only has 4gb of ram, you may want to give it 2gb of swap. It also depends on how you are using your computer. What and how many programs do you frequently open at the same time. Swap is there to protect your computer from crashing if you use up all your ram. In the Linux world, there are differing opinions regarding swap whether it's necessary or not; how much swap one should have; swap partition or swap file, etc.
@@linuxmench2118 That's my trouble with some distributions. My machine have 16GB of Ram and some distributions (Debian based) give 16 or 8 GB of Swap. This doesn't hapen with Opensuse (automatic install option gives you 2GB of Swap). Debian have a "new" drive for scaner that they call "air-scan" but this damm thing have it's own life, my scanner (HP Advantage) works when it wants. I'm afraid that rolling releases can break at some point and I don't want to fight with this kind of trouble (I'm old too and tired), so OpenSeuse give a lot of tools that I don't need to use (in fact I prefer Debian), but this the price or onus...thanks for the video and I think Endeavours (like otheer distros) are made just for the bells and whistles....
