 So today I have just a little bitty video for you. It's not quite as short But it could probably be boiled down into short But I want to ramble just for a little bit about some nostalgic things that I've been thinking about So as I talked about in a recent video, I have installed Arch Linux a lot lately I've done that because I'm an idiot and you know things just you know didn't work out the way that I wanted them to and all This stuff I don't need to go back into it But if you want to watch the woes of me having to deal with some of the problems that I've had over the course of The last few weeks, you can go watch that video But the idea is that I've installed Arch Linux a lot and one of the things that was a really big deal Even like a year ago, maybe even two years ago, right? It was Arch Linux install videos I have one, you know every Linux youtuber out there has done at least one Arch Linux install video Like it was one of the first things It was my first one of my first exposures to Luke Smith was his Arch Linux install video Well, I think that may be the first video of his that I've ever actually watched So my exposure to the Linux YouTubing community was actually through Arch Linux install videos and now they're gone, right? There is no purpose right now if anyone doing an Arch Linux install video because it's so easy to install Arch Linux these days All you got to do is run Arch install and it does it for you. It's not even hard to set up a An encrypted version of Butterfest on Arch Linux. It just does it for you and that's kind of nuts right it's also kind of sad because I'm one of those nerds that would sit in front of my computer when I had You know a spare time and watch someone else install Arch Linux even though I personally I'd already known how to install Arch Linux the hard way You know the original vanilla way, you know, I would sit there and watch them because I found it. It was almost like ASMR, right? It's just something that was very Low brow Entertainment if you you know don't take that off, you know offensively, but it's just you know It's just something that I could have on in the background and just watch and it would be fun You know nerdy entertainment if you will and that kind of stuff at least in terms of Arch Linux installed videos are kind of gone Just there's no reason for it anymore because Arch install exists So that's just one of the things that I wanted to talk about But I mean it doesn't mean that those kind of type of videos are gone So like there's a lot of just of youtubers out there They'll do Debian installed videos for whatever reason because apparently Debian's now harder to install than Arch Linux is I don't actually know. I don't think that that's true But they're obviously easier ways of installing Debian But if you watch some of these youtubers, they install Debian basically like we used to install Arch which is very entertaining. I watched I'm sorry. I don't remember this guy's name I'll try to leave a link to it in the video description by watched a Linux youtuber just the other day install fedora now That doesn't sound exciting at all But he installed it like you would install Arch like he installed it completely manually from the terminal And not just like an encroaches install or anything like that was 100% From partition to installing the packages through a package manager through the terminal It was really really cool took about an hour It was it completely tickled my fancy because it's kind of stuff that I really really enjoy Watching someone do something that is a little bit difficult, you know, it's just kind of fun You know watching them install something that has that idea behind it that it is Challenging and there maybe you might learn something is kind of cool And you don't get that very often with like gen 2 videos like yeah There are gen 2 install videos out there, but when it was the heyday of Arch Linux install videos There was one like like a mono from Linux made simple EF Linux comm he used to do a arch install video every single month Sometimes too, right? You'd show you how to do butterfess installs of Arch Linux encrypted installs of Arch Linux Encrypted butterfess installs of Arch Linux, you know ZFS installs of Arch Linux it was every single month how to install Arch Linux It was the same video basically every single month, but it was entertaining for me because I'm a nerd and I like that kind of thing right and The fact that those kind of videos just aren't really here anymore is a little bit disappointing Obviously it doesn't stop some Linux youtubers from still making the the Arch install videos showing people how to use Arch install and stuff And I suppose that there's a place for that But they're not as entertaining as they were when you know you had to do it the more manual way now Basically what this whole video boils down to is that back in my day? Arch Linux was much harder where you're installing if you did it you had a badge of honor and it was all this fantastic stuff And you could say I used Arch Linux by the way And it actually would mean something these days when people say I use Arch Linux by the way I'm like so so you know how to use Arch install congratulations, you know golf clap, you know, it's fantastic You learned how to use a script. It's just Bully for you. It's fantastic, you know, so it's not it's just not the same now. It doesn't mean that it's bad or worse I'm I myself used Arch install three times this in the last month or so, you know to install Arch Linux You know, it's just because it is super super easy But it does take something away from the experience and the ability to you know show that you've actually accomplished something worthwhile It's just another Linux distribution that you can install via, you know a script or a menu or something like that So yeah, that's it for me on this video a little bit of a ramble this video was Absolutely completely effing pointless by the way, if you made it this far Seriously gold star for you. 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