 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be talking a little bit about my personal journey in Linux over the last say month or so Mostly because it's entertaining and I think it's kind of applies to a lot of people in Linux that her or it applies to a lot of people who have used Linux for quite a while and the idea About this is that Even if you are a distro hopper like I consider myself someone who hops linux distributions over and over again I almost always end up back in the same spot. We all have our type and That's just the way things are and I think that that's true for most everybody you like what you like and despite The fact that I always Think that the grass is green around the other side of the distribution fence I usually still just end up back where I started so About a month ago I Was okay Actually, let's start this way I Was a distro hopper for a long time and I was probably I probably never used a distribution for more than three or four months at the most And that's probably even stretching a little bit. Usually I would hop a distro every No, I don't know six weeks or so Usually for no reason There'd be some minuscule made up problem in my head that would cause me to switch distros even if I was staying on the same Like I was staying with ArchBase issues. I would you know Switch distros just because I wanted to and then I got Arco Linux installed on my computer one time and that was about I Would say it was about January of last year They're abouts and I got set up and I started learning a little bit more about Linux than I had before I mean I'd been using Linux full-time for two years before that so I knew quite a bit about Linux, but I get I got more Entrenched in learning about configuration files and learning some C so that I could actually go through and learn DWM and suckless utilities and stuff like that and I got really into customizing the system and That Arco install lasted me until I Think about December and that was my longest stretch on a single distribution since I started using Linux full-time It was made. I even used a Linux kernel until end of life And which is something I'd never done before and it's just insane, right? Towards the end. I was having some problems with pycom Now if you don't know what pycom is, pycom is a compositor that allows you to do Transparency and smooths out some screen tearing effects and stuff It's one of those things that window manager people use in place of something that a desktop environment user would probably have built in So the KDE has a K-win compositor or whatever. I believe they use K-win for the compositor and Actually, that's the window manager. I don't know it doesn't matter. It's like late at night. I don't know what I'm talking about But anyways, I was having problems with pycom Every time I would wake up my monitors the screen would go crazy and I'd have to shut off pycom and restart Yes, so bad It got so bad. I even went through and created a key binding to stop pycom and restart it So I was like, this is kind of annoying. It wasn't anything that was affecting my performance or my productivity or anything It was just annoying So as I came on in January I decided I was gonna hop it took me about a month to actually realize Excuse me. It took me about a month to actually gain the gumption to do so Because I was so attached to all the little tweaks and stuff that I made to not only dwm and you know But also rofi and all the other stuff That I didn't really want to leave that install But towards the end of January I did I Wiped my drive queen and decided I was gonna go to arch labs because I won't arch labs is basically a just a gooey installer for arch Linux It's actually large linux. It's just a it's not even a gooey installer It's a a 2e installer. I suppose is what you see because it's all done in the command line, but it's uh More user friendly than just typical arch install That completely failed. It was Probably the worst day in linux that I had Since I first started I couldn't get it to I got it to I got it to boot after installation and it was in spanish even though I'd chosen English So I had to figure out how to change the locale That didn't work. So I ended up having just reinstall it and then it It froze at light dm. It went like low light dm. It's Stayed on a black screen with a blinking cursor That was annoying. So I was like, you know what? Screw this. I'm just gonna go back to arco I couldn't get arc orders. I mean literally the same arco that I just Left behind I was just gonna put it right back on and figure well, maybe this will fix my poc on problems I couldn't get it to install. I mean excuse me. I did get it to install But it had the same problems with getting to light dm again It got to that black screen with some The blinking cursor and it wouldn't go So I was like, oh, this is this is dumb. So, you know, I was like, hold on matt You learned something from Linux over the last three years. You learned That you need to troubleshoot things not just Leave your bugs behind and go to something else. So The arco Linux dev has a great youtube channel and they have like, I don't know almost 2000 videos. So I I dove into the the archive there and he has a video on how to fix that problem But it's really out of date and it didn't fix my problem I was like, okay, fine And then I was like Screw this I'm going to leave arch Linux behind I'm going to leave my beloved a u r behind and install boon to I got a boon to install and it worked fine I even went through I managed to get dwm installed work You know installed and working on Ubuntu just fine and all my stuff Uh, the downside is that termite if for those who don't know termite is my favorite terminal Emulator, it's beloved to me. It's something that I can't leave behind Termite does not work on ubuntu. It's not in any of the repositories. You have to build it And it will not build on ubuntu. I cannot get it to I've had this problem for years Every time I try to get termite to build on ubuntu. It just completely fails It has some kind of dependency that just will not work on ubuntu Why it's not packaged for ubuntu. I don't know. It's really weird, but whatever That lack of termite drove me off ubuntu after a day I just uh, I couldn't I was like when you want fine. I'll use alacrity. I couldn't get alacrity to build either I was like fine. I'll use kitty kitty kind of sucks. So I didn't stay. I mean, I spent a lot of my time in the terminal so I need a good terminal emulator and I mean, I could have I suppose I could have used my build of st But I'm not a big fan of st Anyways after that, I decided we want I missed the aor too much. I have to go back to arch Linux I have to go something with arch Linux. I decided to go with manjaro and that's where I've been Pretty much for the last. Oh, I don't know Three weeks or so probably about three weeks and Honestly manjaro was trading me fine. I mean, there was nothing wrong with manjaro, but then I just said That There was just that manjaro always has that Problem because all their updates are so far behind regular arch. I was feeling left out It's it was dumb. It's one of those dumb things that you just feel that's not actually true And So I was like, you know, I'm gonna try something new. I'm I'm just interested in trying something new Manjaro doesn't really do it for me for whatever reason. It's dumb So I tried half tour and I did a video on after a couple days ago And it was Okay, I got it up and running You know with their config and then I just you know, oh, this is I'm not a very good config So I'm just gonna put my dot files and everything on there and install dwm and I did that And I was on there for a couple days. I still was having some problems with key binding So I figured out what the key binding problem was in bspwm The new keyboard I have has a fn function lock on it and it was engaged. So that's the reason why the function keys weren't working but I was in dwm like yesterday and One of the stock key bindings that just moves Windows back and forth For some reason logged me out Like I don't know what's going on here But it was really infuriating because I just finished a video and hadn't saved the audacity recording It was a pain in my butt because I had to go through and Well, actually I didn't have to go back through and reshoot Go audacity because it actually was able to restore my recording. That's I mean, that's just I love I love love love me some audacity so This morning I decided Matt We're gonna get you back on arco because arcos was the distro that had me Being very happy with my computer for almost a whole year And I left arco. It wasn't because of arco. It was because of some stupid pycom bug which has been fixed because I had it on Manjaro for a little while too, but eventually there was an update that came through and it fixed it So if I just waited like another couple weeks or so it probably would have been perfectly fine And I would have still been on arco that arco to install But the my whole point of this is that I'm back on arco where I Started and I think that that's really the story of distro hopping maybe not when you first start out when you first start out your distro hopping because you're doing it to to Discover new things about linux. You're trying to figure out what desktop environment window manager you're you're That you enjoy or which applications work best where because sometimes gaming works better on certain distros than the other and you know, whatever Uh, but once you've used linux for a while, I'm firmly believe that just even if you still hop every once in a while You'll almost always come back to what you're most comfortable with and for me that's arco now whether or not It has to be arco specific I think mostly it's the aor that attracts me. So I could have installed arch and I tried this morning I was like, you know, I'm gonna try this to install arch again. I've done it a couple times before and it's always a pain in the ass it I got it installed and I got light dm working and I got Xfce installed because I always install xfc is the base system because that way I always have a desktop environment installed The screen tearing was horrible. I mean screen tearing is always horrible on linux I don't Understand how anybody this is not a bigger deal because screen tearing is always a problem on linux. It just always is And that doesn't matter what matter whether you're using nvidia or amd. It's always varying levels of bad There's fixes out there. So I use the one the fix that I almost always use and always Works this time it didn't work it I had to restart the computer in order do it got back to uh scrolling Scrolling mess of text and it said launching start light dm and that's where it stopped So I was like, you know, I'll try to trouble fix this. I got on reddit and reddit is Full of pains in the ass who decided that they're just gonna downvote a perfectly legitimate question Even though I googled the everything and read the fucking manual So I ended up on rpo. Anyways, this was a rambling video Mostly I did this because I really wanted to use the title that I used for this video there and back again because And I'm right back to where I was In december I'm back on arco and that's where I'm gonna be for until this stops working because Like I said, I just think that most people eventually especially once you use your links for a long time You always come back to what you come whether it's a You always come back to what you're most comfortable with whether that's a boon to or arch based distros or whatever So that is it for this video I cannot believe I got 13 minutes out of this topic because this was just one of those videos Where I just kind of wanted to make it this it was a very very rambly But that's just the way some of these are so thanks for watching If you want to support the channel you can do so by hitting the subscribe button You can also hit the thumbs up or the thumbs down button either one works for me I really don't mind one way or the other Don't do the thumbs down thing leave a thumbs up It They're side by side. 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