About to make the switch over from Windows 10 to Arch Any recommended

Why are you switching?

>>57007263
>Any recommended /g/ applications to use in Arch?
>- Browser
emacs
>- Video Players
emacs
>- Music Players
emacs
>- Torrent
emacs
>- Terminal
emacs
>- Text editor
vim
>- Python and C++ IDE's?
emacs
>- VM
emacs
>- Shit that will work with syncing my iPhone?
dunno, i'm not gay.

>>57007285
Found the pajjett

>>57007285
I don't have a real necessity to run Windows anymore. I don't really play games and the games that I do play (on rare occasion) on here I can easily run using PlayOnLinux.

>>57007323
To expand on this it will also help me learn a new environment. I may need it later in the future since I do want to become a sysadmin and I wan't to make sure I'm well able to use any environment thrown at me.

>>57007334
Why not ease into it with something like Ubuntu MATE?

>>57007346
I used Ubuntu about 5 years ago for about 2 months but back then I was totally into my gaymes that I didn't really see the reason to make a huge hop like that. I enjoyed using terminal, I know I'm well capable.
However now that I'm older I feel like a switch would jumpstart me into becoming productive again since I got extremely lazy

>>57007334
So no real reason? Just to appeal to the meme?

>>57007365
I mean it's either this or Debian...

>>57007334
Most of this shit is in the wiki
>polite sage

i can personally guarantee you that nothing you learn from arch will be useful in a system administration position except maybe basic bash syntax

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>>57007263
install macOS

>>57007263
>browser
Firefox
>video and music players
MPV or VLC
>torrent
Transmission
>text editor
Gedit

>>57007362
Fair enough.

For DE I'd recommend budgie or MATE.
Favorite text editor is nano, i just use the default transmission for torrents, midori or opera for browsing, vlc for music and videos, terminology for terminal and I'm sorry but I don't think anything will work with iphone.

>>57007390
I had a Macbook
Eh, I'm good.

>>57007387
Eh, wouldn't it be good to have the experience using a linux distro regardless?
At least I'd know how it works at an exceptional level if the company I end up working for uses Linux only

>>57007406
Thanks for the recommendation.

>>57007409
you wont "know how it works at an exceptional level" by installing arch.

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>>57007263
>- Browser
!Firefox
>- Video Players
VLC|Parole
>- Music Players
Same
>- Torrent
Transmission or qbitTorrent
>- Terminal
any
>- Text editor
gedit or mousepad
>- Python and C++ IDE's?
SublimeText and Code::Blocks

>- Shit that will work with syncing my iPhone?
iphone?

>>57007409
ur a mega baka

>>57007433
exploring is key my friend

>>57007409
Arch alone won't teach you anything

All distros are essentially identical under the hood

It really makes no difference what you choose, knowledge will come from choosing a decent *nix book and experimenting with the system

>>57007263
>- Shit that will work with syncing my iPhone?
>no headphone jack

>>57007446
ur a MEGA baka

>>57007452
Kernel, glib and coreutils are nearly the same. Maintaining of the official repo, documentation, wiki aren't. Arch is for schoolkids who is trying to learn CLI. For literate people it's better to use a more reliable distro like Debian.

>>57007263
>Browser
UnGoogled-Chromium
>Video Player
MPV
>Music Player
DeaDBeeF exclusively with ALSA
>Torrent
Qbittorrent or Rtorrent werks
>Terminal
Wayland terminal
>Text Editor
GNU Emacs and GNU Nano
>Python and C++ IDE's
GNU Emacs
>VM
Oracle Virtualbox
>Shit that works with syncing my iPhone?
KDE Connect I believe works

>>57007263
>- Browser
Firefox + chromium with non-free pepper flash
>- Video Players
mpv
>- Music Players
mpd+ncmpcpp perhaps ncurses gui
>- Torrent
rtorrent+pyroscope for minimal or rtorrent+rutorrent for web frontend
>- Terminal
rxvt-unicode
>- Text editor
VIM,nano
>- Python and C++ IDE's?
fuck dat v i m plugins
>- VM
virutalbox or qemu kvm
>- Shit that will work with syncing my iPhone?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPod#Syncing

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>this

>>57007263
Wallpaper please

depending on the hardware You rock, maybe consider windows 7+ AVG+VR?
as in Virtual machine, not Facebook owned VR headware.

>>57007734
whoa nice recs. what kind of rig are you rockin', anon?

>>57007263
>- Browser
chrome or ungoogled chromium like a sane person
>- Video Players
mpv, with your front end of choice. i prefer bomi
>- Music Players
anything will do, but recommend banshee, see below
>- Torrent
transmission-gtk
>- Terminal
urxvt/xterm
>- Text editor
anything fine, but recommend sublime
>- Python and C++ IDE's?
netbeans, codelite, intellij product, or even eclipse, you choose
>- VM
vbox
>- Shit that will work with syncing my iPhone?
banshee, works like itunes for my iphone 5s

I run arch currently should i buy some throw away super cheap gpu and run a passthrough? I dont have on board

>>57007263
-Browser
Firefox or chromium.
- Video Players
mpv or vlc
- Music Players
cmus or mpd
- Torrent
whatever
- Terminal
Depends on what else you install.
Some like minimal, some like features.
I prefer features myself.
I install dolphin as the file manager, and that has a built in terminal, konsole.
So I use konsole everywhere.
- Text editor
Vim, Kate or emacs.
- Python and C++ IDE's?
Text editor + cmake or qtcreator or idle
- VM
Virtual machine? Or window manager (WM)
Virtual machines:
KVM+quemu
Window managers:
Here you should either go for one that is managed by you (also known as stacking) or one that is automatically managed (also known as tiling)
For tiling, bspwm and i3.
For stacking, awesome or kwin.
- Shit that will work with syncing my iPhone?
No idea.
Most people who contribute to software is from Europe, and there android is more popular.
But what do you want to sync?
On android I use kdeconnect to sync notifications, nextcloud for files, carddav for contacts and caldav for calendar.
Then I use syncthing for syncing music while the phone is charging.

Any recommendations on a DE? I've toyed a bit with i3 in the past and I plan on running run it alongside a DE for a while to learn it before fully switching.

OP here, just finished installing Arch
Why does anyone have any issue installing this distro?

>>57007977
holy heck mate just install some programs as you need them and see where it takes you there's literally nothing hard about any of this (which is why it wont make you a sysadmin)

>>57007996
thats not op nerd

still though

>>57007988
Brain damage

>>57007996
Can I easily delete any DE on arch like it was never there if I don't like it? I don't want it to leave a ton of useless shit behind like it usually does on other distros I've tried a long time ago

>>57007263
Browser
Firefox

Video player
Mpv/vlc

Music
Cmus/mpd

Torrent
Transmission-gtk

Terminal
Rxvt-unicode

Text editor
Nano

>>57007263
>Browser
qutebrowser, palemoon (fallback)
>Video Players
mpv
>Music Players
mpd+vimus+autoplay.py
>Torrent
rtorrent (but it's a piece of shit)
>Terminal
rxvt-unicode. Ignore anything based on vte
>Text editor
neovim
>Python and C++ IDEs
neovim
>VM
kvm+qemu. Use libvirt as a front-end if you're a babby
>Shit that will work with syncing my iPhone?
No idea. Applefags can rot and die for all I care

>>57007263
>- Browser
Chromium
>- Video Players
SMPlayer
>- Music Players
SMPlayer
>- Torrent
qBittorrent
>- Terminal
Konsole
>- Text editor
Kate
>- Python and C++ IDE's?
KDevelop
>- VM
Virtualbox, XP
>- Shit that will work with syncing my iPhone?
Kek

>>57007263
what commands:
Center console: top and bottom

what do I do to have: htop display on desktop like that, is that a "widget"?
top resource bar thing


are you the anon that wrote that ricing tutorial?

>>57007263
>About to make the switch over from Windows 10 to Arch
>Any recommended /g/ applications to use in Arch?
>- Browser
Whatever you like. FF is available, chrome also. Maybe look at luakit for fun.
>- Video Players
VLC, mplayer, mpv
>- Music Players
VLC, mplayer, mpd+ncmpcpp, tomahawk
>- Torrent
transmission
>- Terminal
Urxvt
>- Text editor
Vim, gedit, emacs, nano, whatever you like
>- Python and C++ IDE's?
Spyder, C++ no clue except vim emacs and so on
>- VM
Virtualbox, qemu, kvm, xen
>- Shit that will work with syncing my iPhone?
No idea, sorry

>>57008758
>wrote that ricing tutorial?
Link?

>- Browser
Chrome
>- Video Players
VLC
>- Music Players
VLC
>- Torrent
Vuze
>- Terminal
Default one
>- Text editor
Nano
>- Python and C++ IDE's?
Nano

>>57008803
I dont know where I put it, its got some bulslhit name stored in a 500gb folder named "sort".
It was a 3 part post in response to me asking how he did that, explaining how to rice the wm for no boarders and setup a bunch of shit, Ge gad a github or something aswell as a copy pasta site and a link to a forum showing how to rice firefox or something.
It was done up legit.

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>>57007305
Underrated

>>57007263
fuck me this looks comfy as fuck

anyone poast the configs for this pl0x?

>>57007263
Vivaldi
mpv
Quod Libet
Transmission
vim
vim

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>>57007263
>Wasting screen space for muh aesthetics
Ricerfags are THIS retarded

>>57007977
You have to try out different things and see what fits you.
I think you can use i3 with all of them, but you might loose some functionality.

The VM is one of the most important parts of a DE.
The DE is about making a cohesive feel.
The panel, the settings, the launcher, the hotkeys and the applications can created in different ways.
A lot of people here claims that they do not use a DE, because they do not have some parts of that package, but I have not seen any screenshots from the same people who prove that part.

>>57007977
Try Gnome and i3.

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>>57007390
Would give it a try but I guarantee (bearing in mind I only use it for browsing and streaming movies) that it won't perform anywhere near as good as my current arch installation on my old yard sale xps. Looks pretty, though.

>>57007263
>About to make the switch over from Windows 10 to Arch
lmao

>>57009066
Yeah, I just got around to installing it and I'll try out different shit now.
>>57009096
What about KDE and i3? Is gnome more compatible with i3 or is it just better?