 Hi, I'm Denchie, and last time we left off with InstantOS, I think we were at version beta 3.0 or so, but a lot of things have happened with this little arch-based distro. First of all, if you don't know what it is, InstantOS is, as I've said, an arch-based Linux distribution, and it comes with its own window manager called InstantWM, which is actually based off DWM, or its Succes dynamic window manager. It's quite interesting because it's got a lot of cool features that DWM and other window managers normally don't have, like animated windows and stuff. I don't really consider that super necessary, but it is an interesting distribution because very rarely do I see a dedicated distro. I think the last time I took a look at something like this was with ArchCraftLinux, which some of you may have seen that video, it's quite a popular one on my channel. But with something like ArchCraftLinux, it's a Linux distro that comes built in with a window manager and not a desktop environment, and that's sort of what I really like about InstantOS. It has its own little developed environment with Instant Window Manager and stuff, unlike something like ArchCraft where it's essentially just a config. Instant Window Manager has got a lot of cool features that are compiled directly into the window manager because that's how DWM by Succes works. So I just have a little virtual machine whipped up with it over here. I like that from last time, I believe it was just using the generic Arch Linux boot up screen. Now it's using its own InstantOS boot up screen. That's pretty nice. This is a BIOS one. I think it's not like this when you're using EFI though. So I'm just going to quickly boot this one up and it should just load into SystemD. Alright, so we're loading up here into SystemD. It's got an Arch Linux welcome, I don't know if you saw that, but it said welcome to Arch Linux. I think it still considers itself that. I believe it's a change that you actually have to rebuild SystemD. And I believe now we're being logged into our system. There we are. Virtual Machine Detected. I am in a QMU virtual machine, so it is correct. Would you like to switch your 1080p resolution? I'll say yes, despite the fact that we already are at a 1080p resolution. It's got a nice little wallpaper here. And I think this is our welcome screen. Welcome to InstantOS. We can get started with YouTube tutorials. We can check our settings. We can go to the install, get hub support, enable welcome app on startup. I'm going to go to the... I really want to take a look at what the settings is. I don't know what that is, but install. Let's do install. So as you can see, it's got those animations that you saw there, like the windows move about. Praying installation. It does use this weird little standard menu for all the windows and stuff. It's quite interesting. Now we are downloading installer dependencies. Now what's interesting about InstantOS is that I'm not 100% sure about what repos it uses, but when it first began, it was based off the Manjaro Linux distribution. Now the decision was taken to instead make it based off Arch instead, which of course is generally far more efficient. All right. Welcome to the InstantOS installer. All right. So the installer started. I can select my keyboard layout. I'm gonna choose Italian. It runs all the commands over here, I believe. Arch Manjaro. I think this is what the installer is running back here on the second virtual desktop. And on the first one, we get the little menu language. I'm going to do English. I believe now it's going to ask us mirror location. So I'm assuming these are all like the same ones as Arch. So I'm actually going to do Iran because that's relatively close to where I might be. Israel's faster. I don't know. Choose mirror settings. I'll just use the arch rank score. That should be faster. I like this wallpaper. It's a little low resolution. That's a little odd. It's a little blurry in some areas, but it does look nice. Is this the virtual machine? Yes, it is. I'm using KVM and Kimio. Select a region. I'll just say Asia and then Dubai. Yeah, that's the correct place. Select disk SDA. That's a little 32 gig image I made with QMUs. I guess select that as my install. Install this. This will delete all existing data. Yeah, sure. Set username. I'll do dent sheet right there. Set password. One, two, three, four. I'll always set one, two, three, four. It's a very lazy password. Obviously, you don't actually set assistant to this. And the name of this computer is a host name. I'll just call it instant OS. Just like that. All right. Edit advanced settings. Use only if you know what you're doing. Well, I do want to take a good look at this distribution. So I guess we'll take a look at the advanced settings. Enable auto logins. I'm assuming this starts X when you log in. So I will enable this. All right. Kernel, Linux, Linux LTS or default. Well, I'm going to just go with the regular Linux kernel. I don't think we really need a different one. But it'd be nice if the option was added though to compile your own kernel. That'd be nice if you could do that at the install. Because some people do that. Some people quite enjoy doing that. Especially if you're coming to this as a more advanced user. It'd be nice to just have that integrated seamlessly into the install. Logging. I guess we'll enable that. Extra software. Okay. So we get it just decided. We get install extra software. LibreOffice, Lutrus, Chromium. I don't know what code is, but PCMataFM. I do want to install PCMataFM. Okay. So first, enter. All right. So this is just like popular software, I guess, that you may want to install. All right then. Well, just press OK. Okay. So it's given us a summary of everything that's good at install. I quite like this installer. It's very minimalist. It's very efficient. It's a little confusing to navigate this menu because you look over text and it appears selectable because of just how the menus are done. It's just a text entry and other text entries over here. So it's sort of confusing. I don't know. There's something in my mind that quite doesn't click with this. But it does work once you understand it. So installation will proceed with these parameters. The installation will not begin. This could take a while. You can check install progress by clicking two in the top right. So as I said, two on the virtual desktop is where it does everything. So mounting partitions and doing everything. So I'll come back when this is done. All right. So it's rebooted me after finishing the installation and did this nice grub boot loader. I quite like this theme. Look at this. It's got this little starry feel and these cool effects and the Instant OS logo. It's got this cool little boot animation. That's nice. Virtual machine detected. Once again, 1080p resolution and here we are. This is a full install of instant operating system. Let's explore. We can enable the welcome app on startup. We could do the install again for some reason, but we are properly installed. I think I'm going to go to the settings and see what this is about. So this has got sound, instant OS, display, network, install software, appearance, Bluetooth, power, keyboard, mouse, default applications, language, tenant, Britain, storage, all that stuff. All right. Let's take a look at... What kind of sound options? System audio. Oh, it just opens up a pulse audio thing. All right. So I'm assuming it's basically just a wrapper for all the actual built-in system tools. So if we go to network, I'm assuming it's just going to... Yeah, there's the... I was going to start the applet. There it is. So this is the little network applet, NM applet. You can install this on Arch Linux yourself and run it. I'm assuming this top part of the display actually acts as some kind of system tray. I could test that out with an actual proper system tray program. So I might try that. But first of all, if we click anywhere on the screen, we get this app launcher over here where you can launch some programs. It's got these nice little papyrus icons. I believe ST is our terminal. So if we go over here, we should find it. There it is, ST. I got to close these guys, close the welcome app and the volume control. I like... Once again, look at these nice animations. Quick info. Welcome. Instant OS using the ST Terminulator. Don't show again. So this is our little prompt. It comes built with NeoFetch. Of course it does. And it's got its own custom logo for NeoFetch, too. That's nice. So what I want to do now is test a little system tray application. So I guess I'm going to install... All right. Well, it already got my keyboard layout wrong because that's supposed to be a dash on the Italian keyboard, but it's giving me a slash instead. So I guess it's a little bit of an issue with the installer. Maybe I messed something up myself. I'm going to install nextcloud-client because I know for a fact that a nextcloud client does in fact install an applet that you can use. So I'll see if that works. Also just notice that the yay command, the yay package manager, that's built into the system. So that's very nice to have. That's a very useful feature. All right. So nextcloud is now installed. I'm just going to launch it real quick. And yeah. So that is a system tray because the nextcloud little tray has appeared. I'm just going to quickly close all that. I do want to take a look at some of the included programs, though. So SD is installed, Arander, that's for displays. Apparently it uses XFCE tools somewhere because that about XFCE program only installs when you install XFCE tools. I don't understand why that's not hidden. I don't know what add or remove software does. Oh, it's it's PAMAC. Ah, interesting. So I guess you can install different software from PAMAC if you want to. 3D LUT Maker, Baka, Mplayer, Blender, Bonzomatic, fun. All right. Well, you know, we've got all these nice little programs. That's pretty fun. I do want to take a look at a couple of other things in the program, like for example, this right click menu. I'm assuming this is like, well, this is the application menu. This is like D menu. So you can just launch programs and stuff. So SD then it launches SD, right click again and we want to launch, I don't know, Firefox, launch Firefox. There it is, Firefox. I know there's like an option. Yeah, there you go. If you drag down from the screen, you get a floating window. So this is like, you know, a floating window manager. I don't really know. I believe you have to not press there, but press at the edge of the screen and then you can move it about like, like around a certain, yeah, there you can even resize it. So I guess that's pretty nice. The last thing I do want to take a look at once closing this is the performance. So I'm going to run well, H top and see what kind of memory we're looking at. So 363 megabytes. That's about expected. You know, it's a good minimal distribution. I really do quite like the effects and the compositing and on my distribution with a compositor with the window manager that I use. I can't get that. I cannot get that low. I can't get the 364 megabytes of that. That's a good metric for how really efficient this distro is. Now it's not comparable to something like Gen 2 because remember, it's arch based. It's all binary. As I said, it'd be nice to have the option to compile your own custom kernel when installing it. Although that would complicate a couple of things. That is true. But, you know, it's nice. It's a nice distribution. It has improved a lot since the first time that I took a look at it last year and I really quite do like it. And if you're a bit of an advanced user and you're trying to look into window managers, then why not install Instant Window Manager or install Instant OS if you really want a full experience? I really quite like this. This has really improved since the last time I've taken a look at it. So I guess, you know, I've been Denchie. This has been Instant Operating System Beta 5.0. Goodbye.