From 7cff595d70e772e66ca0c6438325c5994fdb6560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fbievan Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:01:54 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update Journey To Arch Linux --- content/posts/My-Journey-To-Arch-Linux.md | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/posts/My-Journey-To-Arch-Linux.md b/content/posts/My-Journey-To-Arch-Linux.md index 1182f32..dc356f0 100644 --- a/content/posts/My-Journey-To-Arch-Linux.md +++ b/content/posts/My-Journey-To-Arch-Linux.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "My Journey to Arch Linux" date: 2022-12-21T09:00:00-06:00 draft: false --- -# + ## Intro Arch Linux is a great distribution. There is zero doubt about that. The syntax of the package manager, the choice by default, and among other things the wiki. But how did I even get to using arch Linux? Well- it was a long history, and that history is super long and complicated. @@ -54,3 +54,59 @@ Well- I was inspired by [Muthar AKA someordinarygamer](#youtube), that I tried o #### Second time around But I wasn't done yet, I found a channel called [Mental Outlaw]() and said hey that looks cool. Then I saw [grapejuice](#grapejuice), and I was amazed. Exactly what I had been wanting. What what kept me from using at that time. I installed Manjaro onto my main Machine again. This time I tried out Roblox, my mind was blown, it fully works with performance being okish, but most importantly: **IT WORKEDDD**. I could now launch Roblox and play it fully under Wine on Linux. It was honestly amazing to me, roblox had been broken for at least 6 years. As long as I had played Roblox it'd been broken. Manjaro now was my daily driver. + +I had heard of a channel called [Mental Outlaw](link here) and I saw a video by chance on how to install Arch Linux. Just by this rabbit hole I found some of my favorite Linux content creators, including but not limited to: [Distro Tube](), [Brodie Robertson](), and [Mental Outlaw](). I was now invested into this. + + + +#### Testing Arch Linux + +Well, I made a commitment when Windows 11 first was announced i made a commitment to switch entirely to Linux, for that see [here](#windows11). For that i did succeed with, I entirely cut it out. I again now knowing about Arch Linux, wanted it. I installed Manjaro on my main machine, I said to myself as a temporary condition, until I can install Arch Linux. + + +That was to be soon, but I had another machine that had been collecting dust for about half a decade, as my Ubuntu endeavors had ended not great. It was time + +#### I virtualized a arch Linux install + +Well- I knew Virtualbox was a thing... Because I knew that an Archlinux install would be long and honestly arch install guide.... You kind of suck with all the redirects. But I installed In a VM. I was now going to try to deploy on hardware... Turns out I had a piece of hardware no one cared about... A relic of my [original endeavours](#orginal) + +#### I installed Arch on my other computer + +I realized I had a relic of my previous experience, an old PC that everyone thought was dead anyhow, I remembered it, I hooked it up to a old VGA monitor, and got a USB stick, and stuck it in there (dang, i could've had the chance to plop in a CD and burn archlinux ISO on it). Then got into the Archlinux screen. Installed it- I literally had to pull up a video on a phone to do this also (Like this was not an optimal way to install Arch) + +It took a bit to configure an Xorg environment, at the time startx was still kind of the "standard", so i used that with DWM. I configured everything how i wanted it to be. It was amazing... + + +#### Manjaro (Again) + +By some point- I had installed Manjaro on my main PC- while I was messing with Arch Linux on the other computer. To try to do single GPU passthrough, but that hadn't gone very well. But since Windows 11 released, I made a commitment that I had to keep. + + + +#### I tried Arch on my main computer + +After loads of tinkering on my alternate machine- i determined i was ready to install Arch Linux on my main machine: Remeber at this point there wasn't any "Archinstall" script bundled with arch. I followed [Mental Outlaws](https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8) Video. I had gotten it installed. I was ready to install DWM- but one major roadblock layed there. + +### **NVIDIA DRIVERS** + +**Yep- the one and only killer of dreams**. I had known from using Manjaro that NVIDIA is kinda broken... but i didn't expect what was to come. I eventually fully read through NVIDIAS Xorg Documentation. To fix this i had ran: +``` +nvidia-xconfig --prime +``` +Remember: I am on a laptop. So NVIDIA Prime is kind of not fully working, it is much better now than what it was right before. Specifically because `nvidia-xconfig` is now known to me. + +After I got through that- It was basically free-sailing. + +Lots of terminal and compiling due to DWM. But it was entirely worth it to bring the knowledge that I got from it. + + + + +## How this has changed me +Arch Linux really brought me to love Linux, and to really start messing with it. It really brought me to the user I am today. This brought me to learn how a system works. To learn how to even script. + +## Issues I've encountered +All of these issues haven't been specifically with Arch Linux. Each of these issues originated from some way either externally from a bug, or with me doing something wrong. + + +