 Oh, okay guys, let's go ahead and do this video. It wasn't the video I had planned, but I'm officially throwing in the towel I'm not going to be reviewing artics linux at least right now. I'm fed up. I can't do it anymore. I just can't it's this is me rage quitting art artics linux and I Have a long and complicated story to tell you so Buckle in subscribe hit the like button all that nonsense. Let's just get going so A couple of weeks ago on the community tab I put up a poll asking what my next large long-term review should be and the winner was artic linux by a good 20 points The one that came in second place was open Suza, which is the one that I was hoping would win But sometimes polls don't go the way you want them to go. It's fine. I Was a man and I walked past it was good and you know, I was just gonna do it. It was gonna be fine It was gonna be an experience an adventure Because frankly, I've never had a good experience with something that doesn't use system D I Tried void linux ages ago and anybody who's been following the channel knows that I tried like five times and I just could not get it to install So I wasn't really expecting all that much from artics, but I was expecting it to be, you know fine It's basically just arch linux, but they've ripped system D out of it and they've put some other in it system in So I was expecting it just to be, you know arch linux the first thing I did was install it in a VM and I thought it was gonna be overly complicated because You know it being an arch linux clone basically I figured I'd have to actually install it like arch linux But there are several ISOs that they have that offer graphical installers and that's one of them that I chose I was like, you know, I'm gonna be lazy about this at least the first time and I installed it via Calamari's installer and it came up with XFC and it was fine in a VM. It worked perfectly, okay It was you know, it was arch linux. It's it has a really weird System for package management like it uses Pac-Man, but it doesn't use the standard Pac-Man So you don't get the standard arch repose you get their repose that don't have very nice very much software on them it's really weird but whatever you can enable the arch linux repose through a package in a Alteration of Pac-Man.com which I eventually figured out So once I messed around with it in the VM for a little while I figured well, you know, it's time to install this on hardware. Now normally with these long-term reviews I've only really done one normally I install that on the standing desk behind me on the laptop And I use it back there for a little while But this time I didn't want to do that simply because I wanted to get this long-term review done a little bit faster Than the month I spent with Debbie and I wanted to spend two weeks with it So I decided to install it on one of the hard drives I have in my main system and The first time I tried installing it. It was a success. I Installed the XFCE version through the graphical installer I just decided to be lazy about it again and you know, whatever I know that's not the true experience of arch linux and the purest out there are gonna You know bitch at me, but I don't care. I just wanted to get it done I wanted to use it. I didn't want to have to go through and follow the guide or do whatever So I got installed it worked fine. I went through and actually installed DWM Got it my rice installed everything and then I did a system update and as is usual on every single system That uses like DM after an update the first update and a reboot. It just gives me a blank screen like a blank screen like a with a blinking cursor up in the upper left hand corner and That's not an art X Linux problem that happens on every single distribution whether it's a boon too based arch based whatever That uses like DM. It just happens. It does not like this computer and it's stupid, but normally When that happens, I can get into a TTY Uninstall late DM install like SDDM, which I know works all the time and I'm fine. I can just carry on with my day This time a TT up to a TTY wouldn't come up And it pissed me off because I just spent like an hour going through and you know installing DWM getting my rice up You know today and getting all my scripts installed and all this stuff So after that is where the true problem started come in with art X things because like I said the late DM stuff Not an art X problem Now I like I didn't even have a chance to go through and experience anything with at that point I was using to run it I so and you know I didn't have any Opportunity to actually play around with that because I was just messing around getting it set up so I could actually use it But once that crapped out I decided well, you know, I'll reinstall it this time. I'm going to go through and do the Pearest way of installing you know art X or basically arch and I got it to a certain point and Then it just crapped out that I it was running something and it went to a blank screen. There was nothing So like all right. Obviously I did something wrong, you know, I'm stupid. I'm a noob All that stuff it happens, you know a lot. So I was like screw this I'll try again. It happened a second time. So yeah, I was like, you know, well I know the graphical installer version works because I've already done it once So I downloaded the XFC. No, I didn't download the XFC version because I knew that one would have late DM in it and I knew late DM would always screw me over. So I downloaded the plasma version and And Then it wouldn't even load into the live environment It gave me a blank screen with the cursor like the cursor was there And that was it and I could get into a TTY sometimes and sometimes I couldn't Why this was happening, I don't know. It was really weird So I went and tried a different ISO same thing happened and another ISO the same thing happened So I was like, you know, maybe this is my computer or maybe it's the USB stick that I was doing So I tried a different USB stick same thing happened So I was like, you know, screw it. I'm gonna do this on a different computer I went to the standing desk and I installed try to install it on that laptop Same thing happened. So I was like, you know, I'm not this is dumb I'm gonna go back to a virtual machine and the virtual machine was still working fine But I don't want to use it in a virtual machine I want to use this on hardware because I want to actually review it I don't think you can truly review something that's in a virtual machine. It just doesn't work for me I want to be able to install a game or steam on it if I want to I want to do all the stuff I'd normally do and I can't really feel like I do that I don't feel like I'd really do that in a virtual machine long story short is that I have not installed artx-langs again and I tried it again three times last night And I'm just done. I was like, I'm I'm done with this now I don't think that I can blame artx-links for this problem I think that this has something to do with my weird combination of hardware It's possible that the cheap Chinese memory that I have just you know, it's Horrible and all that stuff. I mean, I know that there's several people out there who know I have this off-brand memory and always blame all my Linux problems on those but it works with Arch It works with Ubuntu. It works with OpenSUSE. After I got done last night, I decided I'm just gonna install the I'm just gonna do the second place winner and install OpenSUSE. It was fine OpenSUSE is up and running now today. I had problems with it not grabbing the webcam or the screen and I recorded an awesome window manager like time-lapse race and Got back to where I was gonna edit the video and realized that it didn't actually record the video So that was a whole nother thing that just pissed me off But I don't think that had anything to do with OpenSUSE I think they had to do with awesome window manager and not having any dependency installed. So Yeah, my last two weeks in Linux has not been all that great and I'm just like I said, I'm just I Had to for my mental health step away from our Linux because I've tried So many times to install this thing over and over again Whether it's with different ISOs different USB sticks on different a different computer and it just doesn't like me I don't know whether I'm not I'm doing something wrong Whether or not my internet is corrupting it somewhere along the line where so the thing, you know the one thing I didn't try was actually Doing the ISO onto a USB key was something other than DD because I've always been I just use DD in order to do That maybe if I downloaded etcher and tried that that would work, but I don't know The bottom line is Artics isn't gonna happen. So those of you who voted for Artics. I apologize I don't think you would have enjoyed my review of it anyways because I would have spent a good portion of it bitching about the Software availability because the way they do the repose of having their own repose is just dumb the fact that they have very little software in there or The Like I can understand Having your own repose and not having like the a you are Enabled by default a lot of distributions have that like Manjaro doesn't have they you are enabled by default. That's fine It's for security reasons and I understand and it's you know easy to you know enable that thing same thing with like 32 bit Libraries and stuff like that the multi-lib stuff a lot of a lot of distributions I think including mainline arch doesn't have that enabled by default perfectly fine I expect to change that stuff But the fact that they took all the arch repose like all of them away and had their own Just didn't make sense to me because this is arch Linux. It's all it is. It's our clinics. They all they've done To our links is take out the system D and put in their own little in it system I don't understand why they had I don't understand their purpose behind making their own repose It didn't make sense to me. Maybe the arch guys didn't like them using the repose I don't know it was it's it was a weird situation for that little bit of time I used it so like I said, I apologize that the the review is just not gonna come maybe after I've Had enough to you know distance away from this scenario the situation Maybe I'll try it again Maybe I'll get lucky and it'll actually install Maybe I'll go through and try the XFC one again because I know that one did install And then I will just pull light DM out of it you know before I do an update and or in a reboot and Install SDDM or just use our you know start X or something so That is it for me on this one I'm going to be I have an open suzer installed on this computer now I'm going to be using that for the next few weeks And I will make a few videos on it because I want to do a couple Rising videos on it and I want to do some stuff on zipper and I'd love to do something on yes Because there's not enough gas in the world because gas is kind of amazing And it doesn't get enough credit for being you know kind of cool So anyways, that is it for me this time. 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