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Think Arch Linux is only for advanced users? Think again! In this beginner-friendly tutorial, I'll guide you step-by-step through installing Arch Linux using archinstall, a tool that simplifies the process significantly. We'll cover downloading the ISO, setting up a virtual machine, configuring the system, and installing essential software like Firefox and Google Chrome. By the end of this video, you'll have a fully functional Arch Linux desktop environment (Mate and XFCE4) ready to go. Whether you're new to Linux or just curious about Arch, this video makes it easy to get started!
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00:00 Introduction
00:48 Downloading Arch Linux
03:53 Mentioning about Arch Linux Installation Guide
05:08 Starting installation with VirtualBox
08:10 Arch Linux ISO starting up
08:43 Arch Linux ISO loaded
10:15 Updating package databases
10:45 Installing archinstall
11:25 Installing Arch Linux with archinstall
28:03 Exiting installation
28:13 Remove attachment
28:57 Loading installed Arch Linux for first time
29:30 Using MATE Desktop Environment
30:40 Installing Firefox
32:05 Using Firefox
32:58 Installing and using bash-completion
34:15 Installing yay
36:57 Installing Google Chrome with yay
38:18 Using Google Chrome
38:50 Mentioning about ArchWiki
40:58 Using LibreOffice
41:35 Some commentary on the installation so far
42:06 Installing LXDE
42:36 Using LXDE desktop manager
43:05 Using XFCE 4 desktop manager
43:45 Installing and running neofetch
44:48 Shutting down system
45:05 Starting system up again
45:25 Using MATE again
45:36 Commentary on MATE and Arch Linux
45:51 Commentary on Arch Linux vs Ubuntu, Debian, or others and more
46:36 Review of the Arch Linux installation
47:06 Conclusion
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00:00 Introduction
00:48 Downloading Arch Linux
03:53 Mentioning about Arch Linux Installation Guide
05:08 Starting installation with VirtualBox
08:10 Arch Linux ISO starting up
08:43 Arch Linux ISO loaded
10:15 Updating package databases
10:45 Installing archinstall
11:25 Installing Arch Linux with archinstall
28:03 Exiting installation
28:13 Remove attachment
28:57 Loading installed Arch Linux for first time
29:30 Using MATE Desktop Environment
30:40 Installing Firefox
32:05 Using Firefox
32:58 Installing and using bash-completion
34:15 Installing yay
36:57 Installing Google Chrome with yay
38:18 Using Google Chrome
38:50 Mentioning about ArchWiki
40:58 Using LibreOffice
41:35 Some commentary on the installation so far
42:06 Installing LXDE
42:36 Using LXDE desktop manager
43:05 Using XFCE 4 desktop manager
43:45 Installing and running neofetch
44:48 Shutting down system
45:05 Starting system up again
45:25 Using MATE again
45:36 Commentary on MATE and Arch Linux
45:51 Commentary on Arch Linux vs Ubuntu, Debian, or others and more
46:36 Review of the Arch Linux installation
47:06 Conclusion
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00:00Hi, everyone. In this video, I'm going to show you how to do an Arch Linux install, and I'm going to try to make it as easy as possible to be able to understand, and you can do it as a beginner.
00:15Arch generally, I think, would not be considered a beginner's distro, but you can definitely try as a beginner Linux beginner.
00:22If you have experience with other Linux distros such as Ubuntu or Debian, I think Arch is a very interesting distro, and in this video, I'm going to show you how to install it.
00:33I think, honestly, the default way to install is unnecessarily difficult, and I'm going to show you a much easier way using a software called Arch Install.
00:47Okay, so let's get started. So the first thing you're going to do is go to archlinux.org, and to download, you'll just find the Download button, like here, and you'll see something like this.
01:04You'll have options, different options to download it as a BitTorrent or something else. I'm going to show you downloading it using some mirror servers, so you can download the ISOs, and you've got several different countries you can download.
01:23I'm just going to use Worldwide, and I'll use this one, but all of them are going to host the same files. It doesn't matter which you use.
01:33So let's say I use the first one, Worldwide, and most of these other things are unnecessary.
01:39These basically are verifying the key and verifying the checksums, but honestly, you don't need them.
01:47But I'll briefly mention about them in the ISO where you find it.
01:51Okay, so you'll click on one of these links here to download the ISO, and you'll see something like this.
01:59And basically, all you need is the .iso file. You don't need the .iso, .sig, or .torrent, or any of these other ones.
02:10Now, a thing to note is that generally there's going to be two ISO files.
02:16I mean, every time I've always encountered two ISO files, and they're actually identical.
02:22This first one here, so I think the ISO files are made the first of each month, every month.
02:29And this first one here, notice it's July 1st, 2025.
02:36And it has this number of bytes, and then this one here has this number of bytes.
02:43So actually, the number of bytes are identical.
02:47And if you check the SHA256Sums file, these ISOs also have identical checksum files, the SHA256 checksum.
03:06So these files are absolutely identical, except for the name.
03:11So all it is, is the name.
03:13It doesn't matter which one you use.
03:15I think this one is going to be the more common one, the one that doesn't have the date in it.
03:21But if you prefer to have the one with the date in it, if for some reason you want to have download one each month,
03:28and keep them for some reason, then you can do that.
03:31I'm going to use this file, the one that doesn't have the date.
03:36It doesn't matter.
03:37So anyway, all you're going to end up doing is downloading.
03:41All you need is the ISO file.
03:45And I'm going to assume that you've already downloaded it.
03:49And then there is an installation guide.
04:02You can find it here.
04:04Honestly, I do find this a bit difficult to read, even though it's pretty short.
04:09Because there's a lot of things, for example, in the partitioning, that they leave a lot out.
04:15You have to figure it out on your own.
04:17And yeah, so the partitioning, honestly, is one of the more complicated things.
04:25But thankfully, with the way I'm going to show you, you don't need to know this complicated stuff.
04:30The way I want to install Arch is basically as easy as possible.
04:36And later, if you so choose, you can come back to this installation guide and learn more about this stuff.
04:43But honestly, with the way I'm going to show you, you don't need to know these commands.
04:48But the installation guide is there if you want to check it.
04:52But I'm not going to use this because I find it to be a bit difficult to understand.
04:56I'm going to show you a different way.
04:58And you can get started with Arch in an easier way, in my opinion.
05:02Okay, so I'm going to install it using VirtualBox.
05:13VirtualBox is a virtual machine software from Oracle.
05:19This is Oracle VM VirtualBox.
05:22So you can use any virtual machine.
05:26I'm using a virtual machine just because if you're afraid of making mistakes with a virtual machine, it's one of the better ways to do it because you can always just easily delete it and redo it.
05:39And then once you have experience installing in a virtual machine, then you can install it on your own system.
05:46I recommend using a virtual machine first just because it might seem a little bit complicated at first.
05:52But then once you have practice, you can put it on your system.
05:57Okay, so I'm going to make a new system.
06:03And let's say I'll call it Arch install.
06:07I don't want to confuse Arch.
06:10I'll call this virtual machine Arch demo.
06:14And then you're going to find your ISO file.
06:17And I'll do that now.
06:19Okay, so the ISO image should be the one that you downloaded it.
06:26And actually, I think this one is from last month.
06:28It's probably not going to match exactly for this month.
06:31But it doesn't matter because I'll update it anyway.
06:35And then you can choose Arch Linux.
06:39And next, I recommend if you have enough memory, try to actually, you don't actually need that much memory.
06:50But I like to use at least eight gigs for the install.
06:54And I try to use at least four processors if you have them.
07:01Even one is good enough, but four will make it a lot faster.
07:06And a thing to note here is that in the installation guide, I think they assume you're using EFI.
07:14So if you want to follow the installation guide, I would check this, but you don't need to.
07:21And okay, so I'm just going to leave that unchecked.
07:27And then for now, I'm going to give it 20 gigabytes of space just because I think that's a good amount for a virtual machine just for testing.
07:35And for your entire system, yeah, of course, if you're not using a virtual machine, you'd probably want to use the entire, might want to use the entire space of your hard drive or SSD or whatever MVME.
07:51Okay, I'm just going to use 20 for now.
07:56And that's that.
07:59So the initial virtual machine is set up.
08:03And now we're going to get into the install.
08:06So what you're going to do is just double click on it.
08:09It should open it.
08:12And it's going to look something like this.
08:21It'll auto log in.
08:23But you can choose enter if you want to avoid that.
08:27If you want to just do it now instead of waiting.
08:31So this is what it looks like when you install Arch Linux for the first time.
08:39And it's going to basically be doing, you'll see a lot of output from the command line.
08:45And note that there's no GUI here.
08:47This is all command line.
08:49But that's okay.
08:50I'll be setting, we'll be setting up GUI so we can have window manager and so on.
08:58And I'll be using mate and xfce4.
09:06So this probably is one of the scariest things for beginners is like seeing this command line and you don't see any GUI.
09:14But don't worry, you can follow the steps I do and I'll try to make this as easy as possible.
09:20And again, I'm going to be using a software called Arch install to make it much, much easier than their default install.
09:29And again, but if you do prefer, you can go to the Arch Linux and follow their installation guide.
09:35But I do think it's a bit complicated, or at least some things and a lot you have to figure it out on your own.
09:40But with the system I'm going to show you, you don't need to figure it out on your own.
09:45Okay, so the first thing is to know about the package manager.
09:51The package manager is called Pacman.
09:53And you have the dash uppercase s.
10:01That means to install.
10:03And when we want to install some software, we're going to do it like dash s.
10:10And I'll show you in just a moment.
10:12The first thing we're going to do is we're going to update the system.
10:16And we're going to update the repository.
10:20So when we install, we're getting the freshest.
10:24So first we're going to do is we're going to type Pacman.
10:27So P-A-C-M-A-N.
10:29And then space dash uppercase s yy.
10:35And so basically it says synchronizing package databases.
10:42So now what we're going to do is we're going to type Pacman dash s.
10:46So we're going to install.
10:48And now this is the thing that's going to make this much easier to install.
10:53We're going to use arch install.
10:55So A-R-C-H-I-N-S-T-A-L-L.
11:00So arch install.
11:01And we're going to hit enter.
11:03And then you could hit enter again.
11:05You could choose to type Y, but the default would be the first one.
11:08And you can just hit enter.
11:10Okay, so now a few Linux commands.
11:14You can type control L.
11:16That'll take the cursor to the top.
11:19And so now we've installed arch install.
11:23And now I'm just going to type the command arch install.
11:30So this again is what's going to make it much, much easier to install.
11:35So it's still command line, but that's okay.
11:38Okay, so the first thing is that the arch install language.
11:42We've got all these different options you can use the keyboard.
11:45So I'm using the up arrow, down arrow.
11:48And then you're going to hit enter to choose the different options.
11:52And you can choose a different language.
11:57It's set as English.
11:59I think the default is English.
12:00You can change the language.
12:03Got different languages.
12:07You can choose.
12:08And then locales.
12:10This is the keyboard and the locale language and locale encoding.
12:15So you've got different keyboard layouts you can choose.
12:23Right now it's the U.S. keyboard.
12:27And so it's using that.
12:29I think that is correct.
12:30That's what I'm using right now.
12:32But if, for example, if you're using a different keyboard, like a Spanish keyboard, ES, Espanol, you can use a different one.
12:46And the locale language, again, let's say that you're in Singapore and you prefer, you know, you could use English Singapore like that.
13:01Okay, U.S.
13:04This is, I'm going to use the default one, U.S. English.
13:07But you can change whatever you want.
13:09And then locale encoding.
13:10I would keep it as UTF-8.
13:13There's no need to change it unless you have a particularly good reason.
13:18Okay, so we'll go back.
13:20So actually, you can just skip the locales.
13:23I was just showing you how you can change if you want.
13:28The mirrors and repositories, you can actually skip this.
13:34It doesn't matter.
13:35But if you want, you can choose regions that are closer to you.
13:40So, for example, if you, again, if you live in Singapore, you can choose a Singapore server.
13:47If you live in Australia, you can choose Australia, MERS, United States, UK, etc.
13:56If you prefer to have servers closer to you, you can, for example, here, United Kingdom.
14:09But let's see here.
14:11I'm going to deselect that.
14:13So you can hit hit enter again to deselect.
14:18I'm not actually in the UK right now.
14:31Okay, so it's the space button, actually.
14:34Because I almost never do this.
14:36I forgot.
14:37Okay, so it's a space button.
14:40The space button is actually what you choose.
14:44I was hitting enter, and that was wrong.
14:46So you can select or deselect with the space button.
14:50Again, United States, if you want, Uzbekistan, whatever, Vietnam, worldwide.
14:56This doesn't matter.
14:57And you can hit escape to go back.
15:01And go back.
15:03Okay, because I had chosen a mirror.
15:08I'm in United States right now.
15:10I'll actually, let's see.
15:15Okay, well, again, it doesn't matter.
15:20It'll have a default configuration.
15:22But if you want to choose your different region, you can.
15:25Okay, disconfiguration.
15:27This is the partitioning.
15:29And actually, this is one of the most complicated parts, like in the installation guide.
15:34This is the reason I don't like the installation guide, because it doesn't really tell you everything you need to know about partitioning.
15:40I mean, there's a lot of things you have to figure out on your own.
15:44I'm assuming that you can do this kind of as a beginner and not need to know all those different command line tools.
15:52Okay, so let's go back.
15:53So partitioning, disconfiguration.
15:56So you have to partition the disk in order to actually install Arch on it.
16:02And you have different options.
16:04Manual partitioning, pre-mounted.
16:07If you know how to manually partition, you can use that.
16:11But I do think using this one, the first option is very good.
16:15Use a best effort default partition layout.
16:19And you'll hit enter, and then hit enter again.
16:23And the file system, I think you should choose ext4.
16:28But if you have a good reason, you can choose one of the others.
16:32So ext4 is usually the default in most Linux installations, especially Ubuntu or I think Debian.
16:40Okay, so what this is saying is it's going to create two partitions.
16:48And it's not capturing my mouse cursor.
16:53So anyways, what it's saying is it's going to create a boot partition, which you need.
16:58And basically a default partition.
17:01That's where the vast majority of the space is going to be.
17:04So you have a boot partition and then a primary sort of default partition.
17:10And you can just accept it as is.
17:14And I'll hit enter later.
17:17The LVM, this is Linux Volume Manager.
17:21We can skip that.
17:22If you know what it is, you can use it.
17:24But honestly, it's not necessary.
17:27And disk encryption, I don't recommend that just for now because it can take a very long time.
17:36And I'm just doing this demo.
17:39But if you have a particularly good reason why you want to encrypt, have a disk encryption of your whole system, you can set that up.
17:47But I'm going to skip that.
17:49Okay, swap.
17:51I'm going to skip that because I would set this up if I had a large system, for example, more than 100 gigabytes.
18:01But I only have 20 gigabytes for this virtual machine.
18:07So I'm going to skip that.
18:08The bootloader, this is very important.
18:10So we're going to choose Grub.
18:12That's the default.
18:14The host name.
18:16Basically, that's the name of the computer.
18:19And you can change if you want.
18:22But you can call it whatever you want.
18:27It doesn't actually matter.
18:30Let's see here.
18:38And honestly, even I forget things.
18:41I don't...
18:45I'm not sure how to...
18:47I forgot how to...
18:49Let's see here.
18:51Okay, so this was something I encountered.
18:57I never encountered this before because I usually just went with the default host name.
19:03But if you want to actually change...
19:06If you want to delete a letter in the host name, actually you have to use your arrow key.
19:13And there isn't really a way to delete.
19:16And you can go back.
19:18You can hit escape.
19:20This is something that honestly I'm not sure why it is the way it is.
19:24The backspace and delete keys don't actually work.
19:28So, for now, let's just use the default host name Arch Linux.
19:33Because you can change it later in the system.
19:36But if for some reason you wanted to call it Arch Linux, for example, fun, you can do that.
19:44But if you wanted to override some of it, you can use the arrow key like this.
19:49And then press the escape key to go back to the default host name.
19:53We're just going to use Arch Linux as the default host name.
19:57So, again, the reason I encountered that is because I almost always would use the default on my own.
20:04But for making this video, there's a lot of things I haven't encountered before just because I've always just done it for myself.
20:13So, for the root password, you can hit enter.
20:17I'm just going to type 1234.
20:19That is a very bad, very insecure password.
20:23But just for the purposes of this video, I'm going to use 1234 to make it easy.
20:29But I recommend using a much stronger password for root.
20:34And then for the user account, this is going to allow you to make a non-root user, which I highly recommend.
20:43And let's make a username called Archie.
20:48You can call it whatever you want.
20:50I'm just using Archie.
20:52And again, I'll use 1234.
20:54It's not a good password, very not secure.
20:58But I recommend using a strong password.
21:04And it's going to ask you a question.
21:06Should Archie be a super user or a sudo?
21:09You're going to say yes.
21:10I highly recommend.
21:11If you don't want to, you can choose no.
21:13But I recommend yes because it's generally not a good idea to administer a computer as root unless you have a good reason for it.
21:25So, you can have Archie be the administrator, but you have to use the sudo command anytime you want to do anything that has super user things.
21:34Okay.
21:35So, what we're going to do now, if you want to make another user, you can add a user, but I'll just use one username.
21:42I'm going to click on confirm and exit.
21:44And then for the profile, this is very important because it's going to allow us to set up a GUI, a desktop system.
21:55And we've got a lot of different options.
21:58You've got, for example, cinnamon, enlightenment, gnome, KDE, and so on.
22:08I'm going to choose mate, so I'm going to hit a space bar, and then XFCE4.
22:14These are two desktop environments I really like.
22:19In the past, I've used LXQT.
22:24And actually, my favorite one is LXDE, which I'm using right now.
22:31And you can install LXDE in a different way.
22:38In this, in Arch.
22:41So, I'm just going to hit enter.
22:44And again, you can go back to the main profile.
22:47You can use the space bar to select, deselect.
22:49You can hit the escape key.
22:51And then hit escape or go back again.
22:55Profile.
22:56And then, if for some reason you didn't want to use a desktop environment, for example, you just wanted to have a server, for example, you can also do that.
23:07You can set up Docker, MariaDB, Nginx, and so on.
23:11But I'm going to assume that we have a desktop environment.
23:16So, we're going to use that.
23:19And make sure.
23:20Okay.
23:21So, it seemed that it overwrote this.
23:23I'm going to make sure that I install both these.
23:27So, mate and XFCE4.
23:31And you can choose the greeter if you want.
23:36I'm just going to use the default GDM.
23:39But if you want a different one, you can or multiple ones.
23:44So, I'm going to go back.
23:46So, that was what sets up the desktop environment.
23:49Audio.
23:50I'm going to use Pulse Audio.
23:51But if you have a reason to use Pipewire, you can.
23:56Kernels.
23:57This is something that, honestly, you can just keep the default.
24:02But if you have a particularly good reason, you can set up one or more of these as backups.
24:09This is the long-term support one.
24:13So, it's probably more secure than this one, which gets updated.
24:17This is basically bleeding edge, but this is more stable.
24:21And you can install with the space.
24:26I recommend, for now, we'll just keep the default one.
24:30And later on, you can always add these on later.
24:34You can always add more kernels later.
24:37Having two or more kernels is one.
24:40For example, if one of the kernels fails, the other one can be a backup.
24:44But I don't want to go through that right now.
24:47Just use the default one.
24:49The default one is fine.
24:50And if you have a reason to add another kernel, you can.
24:53Okay.
24:54Network configuration.
24:56We've got these different options.
24:58I'm going to use the bottom one.
25:00Use Network Manager.
25:02And it says necessary to configure internet graphically in GNOME and KDE Plasma.
25:09We need to have that.
25:11Otherwise, if we use one of the desktop environments, we won't have internet.
25:18And that'll be a problem.
25:20And then this one, additional packages.
25:22I'm not going to install anything from this, but I wanted to show you what it looks like.
25:28Basically, this allows you to select packages you want to install right now with the main install.
25:36But I don't think that's a good way to install.
25:42But if you have a reason to, you can.
25:45I prefer installing with, basically with Pac-Man.
25:51Okay.
25:52Time zone.
25:53If you want to set up your time zone, you can.
25:55It's probably a good idea.
25:57I'm just going to assume the default.
26:01Again, if you're in Singapore, you can choose Singapore and so on.
26:06If you're in the US, you can choose one of these, et cetera, et cetera, if you're in Poland.
26:13But you can just use the default one.
26:15And then automatic time sync, you can choose.
26:18The default is yes.
26:20But if you want to change, you can.
26:22Okay.
26:23Now what we're going to do, now one of the final things is to install.
26:27So if you have, for some reason you want to save the configuration, you can.
26:30But I'm just going to use install.
26:32So click on install and it says the specified configuration will be applied.
26:36Would you like to continue?
26:38And we're going to say, say yes.
26:41I'll say yes, but just, I just wanted to confirm one more time about the disk configuration.
26:49So that looks good.
26:51That's probably the most important thing.
26:53So I'm going to go back to install.
26:55And you're going to hit yes.
26:57And it says formatting slash dev slash STA and five, four, three, two, one, like a rocket launch.
27:04I like that.
27:05Okay.
27:06So this might take a few minutes.
27:08So it's going to download and install a lot of packages.
27:11And I'll come back when it's done.
27:14And showing you a bit more.
27:18So I downloaded a lot of software and it does more setup.
27:25This is what it's going to look like.
27:27It might take several minutes.
27:29I'll come back again when it's done.
27:31Okay, great.
27:32So you should see something that says installation complete.
27:38What would you like to do next?
27:41And we're not going to, unless you're, unless you're using your own computer and not a virtual machine, you can, if you're using your own computer, you can go to reboot system.
27:53But since I'm using a virtual machine, actually, I'm just going to do exit arch install.
27:59And I'm going to do a power, power off like that.
28:04And the reason we're going to power off is because I'm going to show you something here.
28:12Okay, so in order for it to work, again, I'm using virtual box.
28:17We need to go to settings.
28:19So you're going to right click and go to settings.
28:22And then we're going to go to storage.
28:25And you need to do remove attachment.
28:30And so basically that's like if it back in the days of CDs or DVDs, that's kind of like removing a CD or DVD.
28:41Because if we didn't do that, it would always just reload the arch install ISO.
28:47And we don't want that.
28:48Right now we want to use what we just installed.
28:54So I'm going to double click on this.
28:59Okay, so note that we see GNU Grub, this version, and it showed Arch Linux.
29:08So it's booting into Arch Linux.
29:10So that's a great thing.
29:15And we have a default login page.
29:19This is, I think this is with GDM.
29:22And up here we have this option to choose the different desktop environment.
29:31I'm going to keep mate.
29:33Again, you didn't have to install mate.
29:35You could have chosen a different one.
29:37But if you, and then if you install two or more like I did, you can choose which one you want.
29:44I'm going to stick with mate.
29:45And again, my password is 1234.
29:47And my username is Archie.
29:50Just for this.
29:52And what do you know?
29:55We have the desktop environment installed.
30:00So that's fantastic.
30:01And so this means basically that Arch is installed.
30:05But I do want to give you several more steps just to make it much more useful for you.
30:11Maybe not several, but a few more to make Arch very much more useful for you.
30:19So one of the first things you can notice is that, again, it's very, very minimal.
30:24We don't have Firefox installed or we don't have Chrome installed or any lots of different softwares we don't have installed.
30:32So what we can do is open up a terminal like this.
30:39And I'm going to show you how to install, for example, Firefox.
30:44We're going to use pacman.
30:46So you're going to use the sudo command, sudo pacman, and then dash s, dash uppercase s.
30:54It's important that it's the uppercase s.
30:57And then you can type Firefox like that.
31:00Okay, and I'm going to type in the password, whatever your password is.
31:12And the first question is, there are two providers for Jack.
31:18Basically, you can choose the second one, pipe wire dash jack.
31:22The first one is basically if you have a high quality audio, like a studio quality.
31:28But I think most people would choose two.
31:32But if you're not sure, you can look online.
31:35And I'll later discuss the ArchWiki a little bit.
31:41Okay, and then you can just hit enter for default.
31:45And proceed with installation, just hit enter.
31:49And this should be pretty fast, so I'll show you the installation.
32:05And now, if you try to go back to internet, what do you know?
32:10Firefox is installed.
32:11Okay, that's fantastic.
32:12And if we want to check out, let's check out news.yahoo.com, or let's say news.bbc.co.uk.
32:31Okay, so the internet is working.
32:33That's fantastic.
32:39And let's go to archlinux.org, because I can discuss about this.
32:52Okay, but before I discuss about the wiki, there is one thing I want to install, which is actually a few more things.
33:00But one thing that I find very useful to have is something called bash completion.
33:08And what bash completion allows you to do is to use the tab button.
33:12It's very, very useful.
33:17And I'll show you what I'm talking about.
33:19So let's install bash completion.
33:21And we'll close the terminal, and we'll come back here.
33:28You can open up the terminal.
33:30So let's say, for example, you wanted to...
33:36Previously, if you didn't have bash completion, you know, for example, if you wanted to type Firefox, you'd have to type the whole thing.
33:46So let's say, for example, you just type the first five letters and you use a tab.
33:51The tab will show basically autocomplete the best.
33:57I think it'll come up with the first one or the best one.
34:01And autocomplete the bash completion is very, very useful to have.
34:06So we've got that.
34:10Now what I want to do is install something very useful.
34:14We're going to install something called Yay, Y-A-Y.
34:19Then this is an incredibly useful thing to have.
34:22And I'm going to show you installing something with it.
34:27Okay.
34:28So Yay basically allows us to install a lot more things than Pac-Man allows us.
34:34And we can install things like Google Chrome and Brave and others that are not in the, basically the default repositories.
34:45And some of it is non-free software like Google Chrome.
34:49And anyway, so Yay is very, very useful to have.
34:52And I'm going to show you how to install it.
34:54So you're going to do sudo pacman, sudo pacman dash s dash dash needed.
35:03And you're going to use, you're going to install git and base dash devil.
35:08So you're going to install this.
35:10First, you're going to install these.
35:13So we can install Yay.
35:19And I'll show you again with the Arch.
35:21I'll mention about the Arch wiki, how you have in the Arch wiki, how you can find this too.
35:27So we just installed those things.
35:29And now what we're going to do is we're going to CD into the default directory, which we already were in.
35:38And we're going to use the git command, git clone, HTTPS.
35:44And this is the Arch user repository.
35:49Arch Linux dot org slash yay dot git.
35:58And what this does is it's getting the source code for it.
36:01And then what we're going to do is we're going to CD into Yay.
36:05And then we're going to type make package dash si.
36:14And I'm going to type your password and proceed with installation.
36:24And it's going to download Go and some other things.
36:28But I really do think Yay is incredibly useful to have.
36:31Again, it allows you to install things like Opera and Brave and Google Drive, which I know Google Drive is not completely open source.
36:43So it's basically allows you to install a lot more things.
36:46Pac-Man does have a huge number of softwares you can install.
36:51But Yay is very, very useful to have.
36:54So that's why I'm showing you.
36:56OK, now I'm going to show you how to install something.
36:59It's similar to Pac-Man, but we're not going to use sudo.
37:02So you should not use sudo with the Yay command.
37:07Anytime you install, for example, Google Chrome, we will type our password in later.
37:13But just trust me that you shouldn't use the sudo command with Yay.
37:18It'll ask you for your basically your sudo password while you're installing it.
37:23So it's a safer way to do it.
37:25So let's install Google Chrome.
37:27And just to prove to you real quick, Pac-Man will not have Google Chrome.
37:33I don't think it does.
37:34It doesn't have Google Chrome.
37:36So you wouldn't be able to install Google Chrome with Pac-Man, but you can with Yay.
37:41So we install like this.
37:44And it's going to ask you some questions.
37:47You can just go to default with all of them.
37:50And it's going to download some software.
37:55It can go with the default.
37:57Yes.
38:02And so it's installing.
38:07And I'll show you the whole thing here because it's not that long.
38:13Okay.
38:14So now it should be done.
38:16And let's see if it's open.
38:18So Internet and Google Chrome is now open.
38:21So fantastic.
38:23Google Chrome is installed.
38:28And let's go to the Arch Linux website.
38:35Okay.
38:36Fantastic.
38:37So the Arch Linux website works.
38:39So I just installed Google Chrome.
38:42And again, that is very, very useful.
38:46And now I wanted to briefly mention about the wiki.
38:53So the wiki on Arch Linux is very, very useful.
38:58And for example, let's say that you wanted to let's I wanted to show you something here.
39:06So let's say for example, we wanted to install LibreOffice.
39:11Like this.
39:12Pseudo Pacman LibreOffice.
39:14And it asks you, which do you want to install?
39:17The default is LibreOffice-Fresh.
39:21Or do you want to install LibreOffice-Stil?
39:26If you go to the wiki and you look up LibreOffice, it'll tell you, for example, here, LibreOffice-Stil is the stable branch.
39:40And this one is the basically the newest one for early adopters or power users.
39:47And I personally would recommend Still just because it's more stable.
39:53So for this one here, I'll install LibreOffice-Stil.
39:57And you could, of course, search online, but the wiki is quite good.
40:02And while that's installing, I'll also show you YAY.
40:08If you search for YAYAY, nothing comes up.
40:13But it is in the Arch User Repository AUR helpers.
40:20If you scroll down here, YAY, it gives you some information.
40:30And these are the steps to install.
40:33And that's actually what I did.
40:36I basically used these same steps, except I used sudo pacman.
40:41So the Arch wiki, the Arch Linux wiki is very good.
40:47And again, you can search online.
40:49But if you want to use the wiki, I think the wiki is quite good.
40:54So I just installed LibreOffice.
41:01So for example, LibreOffice Writer or this one here.
41:06We've got LibreOffice.
41:10This is basically like an open source version, open source alternative to Excel.
41:18So that's that.
41:19I think that's very, very useful.
41:21And again, the wiki is very useful if you have, you want to search or you can search online.
41:29I think the wiki is quite helpful.
41:31And yeah, so I think I've shown you the most useful things.
41:38So of course, the most important thing was actually installing it.
41:42And now that we have it installed, we actually have Arch installed.
41:46Now basically, you would just choose which softwares you want to install and customize your system.
41:59I personally prefer to use the LXDE system.
42:04So for example, I would probably type sudo pacman dash s LXDE.
42:09That's just me.
42:10But if you didn't want to use LXDE, of course, no need to install this.
42:18Now it's basically just my preference.
42:20And for example, here I can log out, can log out of mate and I'll show you using LXDE.
42:28Now see here, I just installed it and I can choose it up here, LXDE.
42:39And now it is installed.
42:42Again, this is my preferred graphical manager in my desktop manager, my preferred desktop manager.
42:53I like it very much.
42:54But if you don't like LXDE, you don't have to use it.
42:59And that's one of the beautiful things about Arch is it's highly customizable.
43:04And it's designed to be minimal from the beginning so that you install basically only what you want.
43:11And you don't need to install anything that, you know, much of what you, you don't need to install much if you really don't want it.
43:20I mean, there's some things like the kernel you can't go without, but at least the Linux kernel, it wouldn't be Linux anymore.
43:29But one of the beautiful things about Arch is that it's highly customizable, basically.
43:35So this is XFCE4.
43:40And yeah, it's amazing.
43:43And then the last thing I wanted to do is to show you, again, one of the benefits of YAY is, for example, let's say Pacman dash install NeoFetch.
43:55Note that NeoFetch is not available with Pacman, but it is available with YAY.
44:03So you can do YAY dash uppercase S NeoFetch.
44:10And this is often a thing shown when people show Arch Linux, they like to use NeoFetch.
44:19I think it's an, for some reason, a lot of videos just love to show NeoFetch.
44:24So that's okay.
44:25I'm going to show NeoFetch.
44:31And now, if you type NeoFetch, what do you know?
44:36It showed up.
44:38So we've got the OS, the host, the kernel, and so on.
44:45So, and the last thing is, yeah, you're going to want to shut down.
44:50Definitely, you should test your system shutting down and restarting to make sure it works.
44:56So I'm just going to shut down.
45:00And then try logging in just one time, just to make sure it works.
45:07I highly recommend it.
45:11And so we're logging in here.
45:13Again, that's what the grub will look like initially.
45:17And then you load, and let's just log in one time to make sure it looks good.
45:24So again, you can choose the different desktop environments with this.
45:31And I'm going to choose MATE.
45:36I think MATE is good, especially good for people coming from Windows.
45:42And I just, I really like MATE anyway.
45:45And LX Terminal is my favorite terminal.
45:50So again, one of the beautiful things about Arch is that it's highly customizable.
45:55And compared to Debian or Ubuntu, Debian or Ubuntu probably are easier for beginners to use.
46:01And Ubuntu is probably more stable than Arch.
46:06At least the LTS and Debian probably is more stable.
46:11But one of the benefits of Arch is that it uses bleeding edge software.
46:17And it's probably, I mean, if you're a true Linux expert, it doesn't really matter if you're using Arch or Gen2 or whatever.
46:25But Arch people just often like it to be highly customizable.
46:32And that's one of the great selling points about Arch.
46:36Okay.
46:37And again, one more time, just go to archlinux.org.
46:41Archlinux.org.
46:46And you can have the download here.
46:49And the wiki is here.
46:51And this is also the Arch user repository.
46:55I didn't mention about this.
46:57But if you are so interested, you can learn about it.
47:02And Arch Linux has very good documentation online.
47:06Okay.
47:07So I hope you enjoyed this video.
47:10This video was how to install Arch Linux and basic setup of it.
47:15I hope you enjoyed it.
47:17If you could, please subscribe to or follow my channel.
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