Mac User Installs Arch Linux for First Time

The fact that you managed to install an alpha OS on an ARM apple silicon laptop is very impressive and says a lot about asahi linux. They had to reverse engineer everything to get it to this stage. Kudos to you. Try a normal distro on a normal windows pc and you'll be pleasantly surprised

Archlinux is not for beginners nor for general users. It's for advanced users!! As @niccoloveslinux said, it's your fault. You should pick like an ubuntu or maybe linuxmint.

I preboot my pants every time I try to install Linux.

If you need linux, chose fedora or linux mint. If you want a windows-like experience, chose mint. If you want something diffrent from windows and like-macos, chose fedora. Its stable and nice

Arch is for power users and ironically you're better off using the Wiki (which also has a ton of tutorials that work on other distros), Arch isn't something you want to use as your main distro without a backup option in any use case because it's bleeding edge. You get the latest updates in real time but that also comes with all the instabilities of basically being in a permanent beta...

Linux crying in the corner with all it's infinite distros , infinite desktop environments, infinite package managers , wayland or xorg , open source or proprietary and with all it's bugs and crashes that comes after when you buy a latest system component 😂

There's oppenheimer.. lol

Your first mistake was choosing Asahi for your first Linux experience. It's not a bad distro, it's just substantially far behind pretty much every distro you can install on an x86 system.

Both you and Asahi Linux are pathetic. Nice combination.
Btw, Apple is idiot, with minor help to the Linux community (just giving out some specification), they could create the best Linux computer on the world. And from where would the people buy it? Yes, from Apple for the full price, but they don't need the geek's money for some reason. If some understands why, pls. let me know...

@SAMTIME how long u have been using arch linux?

This is why i hate Linux, everyone names things with code words, I mean, Explorer is a great name for something which explores the file system, “Dolphin” means absolutely diddly squat, even “Finder” in MacOS is a better name than Dolphin, how the hell do all the Linux people remember these stupid application names.

“The arch Linux website is the most Linux website I’ve ever seen” just wait until he finds the gentoo wiki

yeah, the arch wiki is complex but the best knowledge source in all of linux

i use arch btw.

Thought this was funny. I know i ran into some of these problems at some point in my Linux journey. Funny you had them all at the same time, but that's arch for you, it's a beast starting out

Arch Linux… The endboss is close…

and upgrade kernel first time. no boot. bcoz something whent wrong and kernel is 0byte bcoz they stupid not keep old kernel for safe keeping

broo just install discover pacman backends by typing this command
sudo pacman -Syu packagekit-qt5
and do not forget to add flathub backends those are necessary

I think I can fix the speakers of mac

well you could use the command archinstall
the guided arch installer

I love see new people trying linux
but he installed a old version of kde with the old sddm login screen

As someone from Montenegro, I can say it's politically correct to say!

you shoul've tried it on other pc, not on a m.1 mac, as everyone is saying, asahi is an experimental distro for the m.1 chips.

Arch Linux is not for kids

Good lord this video made me want to just end it all....

Use a more basic distribution arc is hard to use for most people

Haha liked and subbed....been working with Arch myself. Haha love this. ❤

This video is a true delight! I enjoyed every second of it (as a Linux user).

Debian user here, probably the worst thing to install Linux on is a Mac. Like, seriously.

Wait...the mf didn't die?! Fuck yea!

I use Arch btw

Sorry to hear you've got Apple, man 😬.

I don't know why I need to install Linux on my MacBook. Linux is by no means a user-friendly operating system. The fact of installing Linux on a MacBook is to forget that the advantage of a Mac is that it can be easily used as a Unix system with a graphical user interface. Plus, instead of going through the trouble of installing Linux on your MacBook, it's less expensive or time-consuming to buy and install another FreeDOS laptop.

i use arch btw

Meanwhile mac smells shits...

Using Asahi Linux with Arch Linux base with an Apple-Silicon-Mac is like participating with a Bobbycar at a military exercise. Unless you're really skilled you will fail. Using Linux+KDE with a device from Tuxedo Computers, Slimbook, System76 or StarLabs would have been a really nice experience.

Pretty much my expierence with any distro 😀I loved them, but every time I install it somewhere, it's like 30 minutes ofinstall, 7 days of configuring common things, like display, sound... yea. Nevermore.

Arch is not for newbie :)

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You should’ve just used manjaro tbh

This is too funny. Well done 😂

Really funny video
I enjoyed it. I love your excitement

Congratulations on such a disingenuous review. Asahi Linux clearly advertises itself as being an Alpha release. The KDE start menu icon doesn't resemble the ":" icon. How would someone even type a ":" if every time they tried the operating system would open the start menu.

What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

I’d like to interject for a moment

Great video, but I wouldn't suggest running Asahi Linux, it's still in heavy development and Arch Linux is one of the worst distros to recommend to a completely new user. Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora are very very easy to use and just works. Unfortunately, they haven't ported it to run on Apple silicon, so you didn't have much options either way. KDE is meant to be more familiar for Windows users, so I get your confusion. Pacman is the package manager that Arch Linux uses, not the game. Pacman isn't very noob friendly either, with (in my opinion) the most confusing syntax (seriously, 'sudo pacman -Ss' or 'sudo pacman -Syu' 'sudo pacman -S'... cmon man). Get yourself a Mac that still uses Intel chips and install Linux Mint. It's incredibly difficult to be lost in Linux Mint.

There is a qt5 dependency you need to install the dependencies to get discover to work. It is pretty simple to add, it’s due to arch being very barebones, literally all that’s installed is what you request to be installed.