How do THESE guys use Linux? - Linux for Newbs EP 0 

Hey Everyone! I misspoke and called Gnome/KDE Display "Managers" When really I meant "Desktop Environments". I'll be sure to clarify in the next video when we install arch and choose a Desktop Environment / Window manager. Thanks!

My man single handledly creating more nerds in this world lol. Keep them coming you nerdo

Btw a small correction: the Long term support releases didn't really get affected by the xz vulnerability because their xz packages were already pinned at an old version. Ironically enough, Arch and several other bleeding edge rolling release distros had the version with the backdoor distributed for a short period of time before it got patched to the newer safe version (even though the backdoor didn't work on Arch since the ssh distributed via Arch didn't depend on xz).

One minor thing: display managers are just the thing you get after booting up prompting you to login. Gnome uses GDM and KDE uses SDDM, by default. Display Managers typically allow you to start different sessions. On GDM for example, you could launch into the Gnome Desktop Environment, or into i3 if installed 🤪

RIP neofetch

I'm glad to see you're going to cover these topics, many people don't switch to linux because of the initial learning curve. I believe the series will help a lot with that 🙌

Chris, I love your content and I'm so excited. I can't wait to dive into this journey!

arch documentation is really amazing. In the past I used debian and fedora derivatives. If something broke I search tons of forums and read people's problem, comparing them with mine and then fix it somehow. Not the best experience. But with arch I almost exclusively use their simple doc and it solves all of my problems. Also there described comparability with different tools, not only pure arch Linux setup, which is great

I don't comment often but I just have to say this couldn't come at a better time. I've been experimenting with Linux customization but the learning curve is steep and it is wonderful to have someone lay everything out in a simple intuitive and comprehensive way. Everything is slowly starting to click & very excited to see your channel. Thank you.

Your video is the reason I am doing a series on Arch Linux on my channel and I love it, it is harder to learn at least for me, but just learning the commands is so much fun thank you sir for an incredible video!!

Wow!!! We see that another great playlist is starting. I'm excited about it.

Can't wait for the Arc install guide!

Always remember, rolling release requires you to befriend arch-chroot but if you do an arch setup without the new distros like manjaro etc, you befriend it much sooner, likely on your 2nd broken install.

Awesome video! I am looking forward to watching the entire series. I have a similar env in my macOS with yabai, skhd, neovim, and tmux :)

Man , youe neovim series got me hooked nd bkw tbis series too gonna blow up sooner or later 🔥🔥keep it up ! Thabks Nerd !

Thanks, man. I love the talk about integration of the tools more than talking about the tools themselves.

You are such a good presenter. I was able to get 99% of what I needed up and running on my Mac with your guidance, keep on making this great content man!

Awesome start! I wish I had had something like this when I was starting to play with this style of setup. Had to learn how to configure i3 from scratch myself haha

When I decided to go with vim I founded your RU-vid channel with vim series. Last week I decided to go further and install arch and this series comes. Man.. I love this channel so much, thanks you !

LOVE IT! Is it so bad wanting the next episode like NOW? Keep working nerd, doing GREAT!

Pumped for this series. My wife is taking her first steps into the GNU world and is pumped to see the next episode already.

Love this! Excited for the coming episodes!

Can't wait for new episodes coming!

Dude, just why didn't you exist earlier man, do you know the shit i went through to get to where this video gets a person ? Dude an year of hell, literal hell to finally call linux home. Your channel is god man!

This is really a great idea for a series, we are currently missing that ! I kinda disagree a little bit with your arch point of vue, but anyway, I also use arch btw, and I think its a really good distro to do programming. Thanks Typecraft, can't wait to see the next !

I switched from i3wm to sway, and am psyched to watch this series and level up my use of these tools!

great video very exited for this series as someone who wanted to get into the ricing part of linux for along time

Thanks man. Excited for next episodes

This was great. Looking forward to the series.

Fantastic video looking forward to future episodes

Thanks a lot. I was waiting for a complete noob rice tutorial for all this time. I think this is the one. Love

Nice vid, recently got into linux and this vid would have been super helpful when I was just starting out

Thanks for this introductory video! I've always been stumped by the workflow of tiling window managers, so have always avoided them in the past. You've convinced me to give it a try at least. I look forward to your upcoming videos.

Hey man awesome series this and configuring neovim You make so understandable for people like me 👍

Man, LOVING the videos lately! I'm running Fedora with AwesomeWM myself, and it's been such a great change. Still running (and loving) macOS for work, but whenever I can dip into Linux, I'd much rather do that.

cant wait to see your i3 configs

i love theseeee!!!! (video series, but influencers mentioned as well)

You’re just like Netflix. Always putting out a new series. The only difference is that you don’t cancel on them.

I cant wait I was about to move all my files on Windows to follow with you, it's been 7 days I hope if you can post everyday in this series, I'm really exited and wanted to learn neovim on linux asap

I'm already running Arch with Hyprland, Tmux, and Neovim. Just here cause your content rocks!

a solid .1 intro, nice to se a breakdown type of workflow.

Looking foward to this series.

I like this series, so i am excited to know more about linux ❤ thanks

2:40 funny point right there, since rolling release distros were the ONLY distros affected by the exploit, mostly fedora's rolling release. Stable releases or LTS releases didn't have the version of the library with the exploit yet when it was discovered

Another great video series coming our way, thanks nerd 🤩! Regarding your choices, I prefer Arch too because of the rolling release model, the Arch wiki and the haptics of the package management. And Arch nowadays is really easy to install, much less of a hassle than e.g. Gentoo. When I first used Arch in 2020, I was a bit extreme, I only installed the bare necessities and also a tiling window manager (bspwm). Nowadays the main thing regarding productivity for me is to have NeoVim and tmux nicely configured (in part thanks to you!). I am using KDE Plasma since I am mainly using Laptops and usually it does not make a lot of sense to have more than one window open on a single desktop, so I don't see a big appeal in using a tiling window manager, but maybe I will learn some new aspect why it would make sense for me, too... I have key combinations for the main GUI-applications and I always open them on specific desktops 1-6 so I don't even need to think about how to switch between them.

I've been struggling to install arch linux like that for the past weeks, can't wait to watch the next episode hoping that it helps

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing it

What a time to be alive, through the advanced technology of tiling window managers we can run multiple full screen applications on individual desktops that in no way resembles the way I used tty1-6 on the console when I first got started with Linux in 1998.

damn! This is more exciting for me than any Netflix series. Super sad that there’s only one episode available so far 😄 I’ll wait all to come out so I can migrate from windows. I absolutely hate using neovim on WSL (ubuntu). I am new to neovim btw and set up things from your neovim setup course initially. Thanks for the amazing content :) can’t tell how much I appreciate it

wezterm when? Love the vids keep up the work!

Nice, I'm really looking forward to seeing your config! Btw, have you ever considered using NixOS instead of Arch?

I come here for the intro and stay for the content, everytime..!

Amazing content. I am excited to watch the next one. When is it comming?

i been waiting for such a course :)

I will enjoy this eposodes, this is what i need, keep going :)

Wheres the rest of the series? Great videos! hopefully more coming up soon! 🙌

Great video. A couple corrections: point release distros also deliver security updates as soon as possible. rolling release is got for if you want the latest and greatest features not more security. You often say display manager when meaning desktop environment. A display manager is just the lock screen in linux lingo.

Subbed and ready for the whole series

Just as I felt I had gathered enough information to make a Linux "IDE", you come out with a guide. Will be interesting to see how my own rookie thoughts compare and have a guide to follow when things inevitably turn out to be more difficult than expected. You mentioned tmux as well but I'm not sure I would use tmux with a tiling window manager. Maybe I'm wrong on that.

You are the best youtuber ever i seen please make more and more content you are awesome

much needed series!!! keep going..............

im ready for part 1, 2, 3, etc. thanks

nicely put. out of curiosity, have you switched to linux long term or is it more of an experiment?

Thanks nerd. I look forward to watching next episodes

Loved your series about setting up neovim. It helped me out a lot and I really love using it now. Can't wait to see more from this series. Multiple workspaces are a great tool to have. Just hate that it took Windows so long to make it a standard option. before then, using Linux at home and coming to work and having to use windows always felt like I was downgrading. Still kind of does, but it isn't as bad anymore. Still will never put Windows on my home machine again.

Was planning of installing arch since the package managers for debian sucks, just what i needed sir. Thanks a lot. Pacman supremacy!!

Interested to see this series, hope many find it useful and intriguing. I used to run i3 on arch btw, but lately I haven't bothered with all the configuring. I find that Gnome is quite ok if you utilize keyboard shortcuts like Win+Arrow keys to split and move windows effectively. It doesn't give the same granular control or speed but gets the job done. Then again I've also moved that responsibility to tmux, where I instantly jump between running processes, neovim editors and shells, which leads me to only need one workspace. Really the trouble with a tiling wm is the same as the trouble of neovim vs. IDEs. It doesn't come with anything but the bare essentials preinstalled, and expects you to do the heavy lifting in the beginning. But after it's configured to your liking everything's exactly where you want it to be and you fly between screens and applications like it's second nature.

At it again with another awesome course.

Amazing, love the content!

Ur content is gold keep up the content!!!

Between you and Teej I've dug myself deep down the nvim rabbit hole

I've been using some form or another of Linux for the past ~15 years, but I never really left the Windows-y look & feel of Desktop Environments and GUI apps like VS Code. It's not lost on me the huge difference in productivity that being fluent with tiling wms and vim, for example, gives people. I think I'll whip up a new virtual machine and start following this series so I can finally graduate to full-on nerd lol

I use Arch with KDE, zsh, tmux, neovim and vs code. Virtual desktops on KDE work very well.

The mustache man is back with another incredible series ❤🎉

Great start to the series! Where can I get this beautiful wallpaper?

Curious to see how to get i3wm working with a HiDPI display. All of my Linux machines are laptops with HiDPI displays and when I tried setting up i3 I ended up spending too long trying to figure out how to get both i3 and the applications to scale properly before giving up and going back to KDE.

I also like Arch because I can easily install what I want and make sure it's up-to-date. But, I'm currently on EndeavourOS with hyprland since I really like it. Good video btw.

Great series idea!

I already use this workflow but I know this series will be fire 🔥

Great concept for a video. I would like to recommend sticking to customizing the functionality of i3/sway, whichever way this series goes (although sway might be better to avoid screentear on X). Adding steps for customizing aesthetics for sway, tmux... will be redundant in my opinion, it could throw those that came here looking for the i3 programming workflow off. of course, include a unified colorscheme like gruvbox for every program, otherwise it would look terrible. but other than that, i think sticking to core functionality and workflow would be the best direction for this series. This is just my 2 cents. Looking forward to see if I can recommend this series to my friends trying to start out on linux!

tj and prime using popos - and using Linux only for the window manager. Great series.

Literally got shivers in the intro

For those interested, there is an extension for gnome called Forge that is a very good tiling manager.

For a noob developer like me, your content is a blessing, thanks brother!

Hi, I see that you using that nice terminal bar with all those rainbow colors, I cannot find a video where you're setting that one up? I already have TMUX with Catpuchin but still missing that one piece. Can you help me out? EDIT: Is it a starship? Can I get the setup?

I would appreciate if you did a full setup with the manual install of arch as well for educational purposes. The arch wiki doesn't tell me much beyond the basic installation and the same goes for most of the videos beyond really old ones. I don't mind if you even start with an already basic install done and just helped setup what we need after that.

I wish I had this content when I started my journey down this path. Grade A content

plus 10 point for the Patagonia hoodie

I just started experimenting with installing arch in a vm today lmao. will be following along and seeing what's what.

I'm a happy pop os guy . cant wait to see the rest of this series

this series is going to be a godsend 😎

Love this. keep it up

Enjoyed the video. Very informative! As a Linux user, there are some things I definitely could learn or do better. I am not familiar really with Arch simply because I know nothing about package managers like Pacman and i only know to use APT (debian/ubuntu) and DNF (Fedora/Redhat).

Awesome as always ❤️

Thanks lot nerd, the timing couldn't have been better, I was just thinking about moving on to Arch btw from my current debain based distro, gotta do that when the next video drops.

Teej , Prime MENTIONED

drop the next episode , can't wait

Just starting to teach myself to use i3wm, I have it installed alongside plasma and depending on the task I am doing depends which I log into.

NixOS is my newest favorite linux distro. I'm not sure I will ever leave.

Interesting! If I wasn't working on a fairly new macbook then I'd look at getting a laptop with Linux. which machine do you use Typecraft?