who is arch for well the answer is quite simple it's for people who already know that Arch is for them [Music] right hello there and welcome to Monday philosophy so the reason why I asked this question about who Arch is for is because today I have had uh a short session with a friend who tried to install Arch and he already knew that he's going to not like it right and everything was pretty much expected but he wanted to give it a shot anyway uh and one of the reasons was uh that because I told
him to give it a shot and I as well knew that he's not going to like it but all that things aside I told him to try Arch install this is a python script that basically helps you uh get through the whole install and it's um pretty much click ity click uh so you know you you run the command you pick your um keyboard your kernel your um you can tell it to Auto partition everything uh you can uh choose the packages if you know how to enter the command but he skipped that part uh
and basically in about five or so minutes he had uh a working Arch install right and by working I mean the command line login all right uh so he asked me which uh desktop environment should he try and because he already uses KD uh plasma right I told him try Cosmic uh and okay uh easy enough PSE sudo Pacman D capital S Cosmic installs everything that is required but because he tried it in a virtual machine which was vmw he wasn't sure which graphics card um background was being used so he didn't know when the
offer came up from Mesa uh whether he should select ATI or Intel or virtual virtu basically for KVM machine so he just pressed number one for the um kind of a default option and that was uh radon but I think the older one uh I'm I'm not entirely sure uh and basically once the cosmic was installed he started it and it didn't show up on the screen right so the way he wanted to try another Mesa driver was to reinstall uh Cosmic and that didn't work because Cosmic is not the one who asked about which
Mesa driver to use but rather Mesa package was automatically pulled along with Cosmic uh and this is perfectly fine but you need to be aware of how things work work under the hood so in order to change your Mesa driver you really need to go back to the documentation and find a way how to reconfigure Mesa and which which package exactly is taking care of uh asking you which driver to use so after some full s minutes uh we were done with both the installation and trying of Arch Linux and we have already had the
conclusion that this operating system sucks allow me to skip to a whole another topic for a moment and then we are going to tie them both together uh in the end uh do you know how most of the Linux utilities work you you usually have the command line utility which does the job and then you have the GUI uh front end uh sometimes in gtk sometimes in cute uh sometimes it's deeply integrated into grome sometimes it's deeply integrated into KD uh or cinnamon or whatever uh but usually you have some underlying command line uh utility
that actually does the heavy lifting which which actually does uh what you are trying to do uh be it for example the old school CD burning or partitioning something usually you always have some kind of uh CLI tool which uh does the main job right and why I'm saying this because there is always two ways to do things from the command line or from GUI in Windows it usually uh has been always like from the GUI only and recently they started adding uh more and more command line options but in Linux it was the always
the other way around you always had CI utilities for everything and GUI for something but not for everything uh in my opinion we should really stay on this course and offer people the option to use GUI but the underlying AR architecture underlying tools that do all the job should always stay as command line options because these are uh very practical you can access them via remote SSH session and advanced users love it and beginners always want to use GUI so the way that things should work is that we should remain having both of these options
uh as we already do and I'm not even suggesting that Linux is straying away from this pack I'm just say that this is good this is good what we already have and the the reason why I'm building up the the whole topic here is because a lot of new users that we actually want to to get on on board into our EOS system because more users equals uh more drivers equals more Hardware support equals more software equals more opportunities and all that brings even more new users right uh so this this things pin Circle right
most new users want things that just work they expect to click next next next during the installer uh maybe uh use the slider to to repetition the windows partition if they want to dual boot and tell the um Linux installer whichever drro they are using uh to just you know resize the windows to a smaller one and put Linux here and not worry about what grub is uh and what kind of botlo other uh options are there uh and you know all these things a friend of mine recently installed Ubuntu and he uses teams for
work and recently he uh got a little bit angry because teams stopped working not completely like some of the functions stopped working maybe desktop sharing or or something along those lines and he was a little bit mad uh on Linux at Linux uh but it turned out that it was actually Microsoft fault and Microsoft broke this functionality on Linux it it wasn't actually the fault of the uh anything any component on Linux and thankfully enough uh he was having a cool enough head to discover this sfer uh on his own but nevertheless uh it was
a little bit problematic for him because he actually need needs this uh feature for uh uh for his work so your approach to this uh problem as a solution might be like don't use Microsoft products why would you use that on Linux right it's it's this is a valid uh way of thinking right on Linux however if we want to pressure Microsoft to do better on Linux we need more users we need to have the angle from Microsoft to to see Linux as something that they need to invest more effort in and not create problems
where there shouldn't be right so we are where we are right another friend told me that he wouldn't like to see Linux desktop usage grow like Beyond 10% like he would like to see Linux stay as a smallish community and whether I agree with this or not the fact that 10% is a pretty good percentage and we are getting closer to where Mac is right and Mach is uh enjoying a lot of software support so I'm not sure entirely but I I think Mach is like around 15% let me look that up quickly yeah I
got that right so Mach is around 15% in the entire world and they are getting a lot of software support due to uh being that big and big is like under quotation mark because compared to Windows this is a rather small uh percentage but Linux is um kind of a trying to reach 5% now uh but we are still not there yet and the reason why I put these two topics on the table like uh who is Arch Linux 4 and how are Linux tools uh supposed to be or or already are designed right I
want to see more Linux Enthusiast recommending easy Linux distribution to new users like zorin or Ubuntu and yes I said Ubuntu no matter it's coming from a huge company it's it's a private company right until they become like a publicly traded company and start depending on shareholders I think they're fine so there we have it when your next friend asks you for help to get them on board Linux give them something easy give them flat packs and be there for them I'm going to see you next video [Music] d [Music]
