 You know, it's weird. I sometimes forget. I don't use Arch Linux. I haven't used Arch Linux in like a year I know there's this meme out there that I do or in fact that I am the quintessential Arch user, but that's just that's not true I don't use Arch and I don't really plan on ever using it again the distribution I actually use is this right here Artex Artex Linux if you go to artexlinux.org and I sort of installed it first off what is it now if you're just out there you want to install a cool Distribution or something like that artex linux actually even if you're a newbie this might be an excellent distribution to install because it hits everything Exactly perfectly. Okay, but if you just want to look cool on the internet it has all the perks of arch It's just like having arch, but you also it's it's calling card is that it does not have soystom d as It says simple fast system D3 so you guys know if you've watched my channel for a while I'm not against system D. Really. I I Don't know. Maybe you're a newbie. You don't know what this is Basically, it's this in its system that gradually started taking over all these other processes on the machine and some people think it's terrible and bloat and evil and You know, I've even put out videos basically simping for system D saying it's not really that bad It's not a big problem, especially for new users But you know Artex is so a lot of the people who use artex or these people who are just really against system D Or at least somewhat against it and I'm not really one of them but I will say that I have installed and run artex for around a year or so and It works fine. I and again, I Forget that I use it sometimes I sort of feel like because the experience it it has all the benefits of using arch It is just um, yeah, I mean, it's just basically the same thing. There's some minor differences I'll talk about a couple of them in this video Anyway, if you want to go to it now, here's the nice thing and now it works as a arch equivalent Again, if you just want to have a system without system D May maybe you don't like something about system D. Maybe again, you just want to look cool on the internet, but it's also Pretend potentially very good for people who have not used Linux before Because well, we're I should say where artex came from is There were people who made this fork of arch Linux and they called it arch open RC And there were these people who made a similar of course running open RC as an internet system And there were these people who were running me or who forked a manjaro into a manjaro open RC And they sort of joined forces for arch or our artex Linux But one of the things about that is of course, they have the base installs So, you know, I use the run it version of this, but they have base installs of If you want to install it like arch Linux, but additionally like manjaro if you want a cinnamon desktop You want to you want to install it and have a desktop configured by default you can do that as well They have cinnamon X FCE Plasma whatever you want. They have some community versions. I wonder what that's supposed to be GTK That's very Nondescript, but anyway So this is one of the I know I did this video Around a week or so ago on manjaro and one of the reasons I recommend manjaro usually for new users is It has a lot of the benefits of arch But it also, you know, you can just install a graphical environment if you don't know how to do it But now that I think about it again Now that I remember that I use artex and that it actually works great It might actually be even better to just use artex instead because manjaro does add in some stuff that I don't necessarily like Again, just like weird wrappers and hooks on Pac-Man and they throw a bunch of cruft in there that is unnecessary Whereas it probably would be just as easy to install You know one of these debt like a cinnamon desktop. Okay, so I should be clear I said that artex doesn't have system D You might notice here if you read it that you actually have three different varieties of artex now for the most part They're gonna work the same way, but they have open RC The open RC in its system that I think that's really their default. They also have run it and s6 I have never used s6 in my life I have used both open RC and run it quite a good deal and the version I run is actually run it I really like run it because now I should say if you're your thing if you've never used any of these and you're trying to Make up your mind The safest in this case might be open RC because it's more default But you know if you could figure out run it pretty easily. It's basically the same concept You know you just look up on the artex wiki and they'll tell you how tell you how to work it But so they you do have three different versions of it, which is pretty cool But of course the packages are basically the same way I mean, I mean, they're the same repositories and stuff just a little couple differences I mean just to show you here's an example, you know, let's say So for any package that your init system might be starting for you Let's say network manager. There's gonna be the network manager package. I'm not quite sure I think this might come with the open RC. I don't know. Is there a package called Network manager open RC. Is that how they do it? Okay, yeah So basically how they do it is there's a network manager package and if you're running run it You also install network manager hyphen run it and that will give you the ability to auto start that or you know hyphen Open RC if you're using that. I don't know. Maybe there's maybe that's how they do s6. I don't even know how s6 works Okay, yeah, that is how they do it So within their repositories actually keep all these different things now it 99% of the time It's not really gonna matter what in this init system. You're running just as long as you can dab on system D Users, that's the important thing Now in run it. I'll go ahead and say I think they keep their Etsy run it SV. Yeah, that's it. So here you see all these little things that I have all the Things that I can so I don't know what the name is for them the profiles of programs I can start with my init system You know tour impede. I don't know why I have light DM installed. Do I have? Light DM installed Okay, maybe that's not his package name. Who cares but anyway, so if you're a newbie I would probably go with open RC although if you want with run it. I think run. It's a little better It's a little quicker on startup and stuff like that open RC Like well, okay. I don't think open RC parallelizes things at startup So it might take a little longer. You can tell it to do you can change the configuration file But there are other little things about run it that make me prefer it and I've never tried s6 Maybe it's good or maybe it's not pronounced s6. Is it I don't know You never know with these computer programs nowadays. I don't know. I just don't know anything about it But yeah, so Artix as a review I can say that I've used it for a year and it is so It I guess the best testimony I can give it is that it works so well I forget that I'm running it and I think I'm just running arch or some other distribution You don't think about it. That's usually the good sign of a good distribution. I've actually said this about arch Because once you install arch Linux, you know, you don't really think that much about Okay, my face is out of sync again. Oh, it's so annoying You don't really think about it once you have it installed but So Yeah, I guess that's about it Yeah, that's about it. I think I might do a little video installing it or something like that I actually I think I was going to then I set these download Yeah, I think I had it. I think I'm gonna have it download the cinnamon desktop Just cuz why not I'm gonna try it out, you know back in the day. I will say that like here's here's a little boomer reminiscence, okay? Back before I came to YouTube or I mean, it's not really about me back when I started YouTube Every like every Linux channel what they did just non-stop is distro reviews distro reviews distro reviews distro reviews and Like I don't know like it was just so annoying to me like I never did those videos This is not I don't know if you want to even call this a distro review here But I sort of feel weird even talking about it But that's a weird thing and it still get click it still gets clicks mind you if you just do a video like I'm like Oh Ubuntu versus Arch Linux or something like that That's like catnip to people and the word thing is alright I'm just gonna ramble a little bit because why not I don't know It's funny because like the comments you get in videos like this are so interesting because People just want to like tell you their story. Oh, I installed Ubuntu and then for three weeks I did this and blah blah blah and it's like I don't how does this elicit? We're just talking about distributions and you're just I don't know sharing your life story with us or something I don't know. That's just I'll never understand the sort of Maybe it's just that that's special area where you're learning about technology and you just want to talk about it all the time Okay, that maybe that's it But either way if you're in that state art Artix Linux is a good distribution to try if you are a power user And you just want to dab on people because you don't use Soystim D Artix Linux is also an excellent distribution I Like it more than arch. I mean, it's not that much different to for me to have a really really strong opinion, but it's good and The basically everything that applies to arch as so long as it's not like a system D specific thing applies to this So I highly recommend it. Yeah, I'll probably do some kind of installation video for this But yeah, see you guys next time Can you believe this look at that? 958 all right now. I'm over 10 minutes. That'll be enough. I gotta get my ad companies. See you guys next time