I Just Removed Ubuntu for Archcraft and my Linux PC Looks Awesome!

2 years ago by pnutzh4x0r to c/linux

Switching away from Ubuntu, again, to try Archcraft. Here's what I think!

Archcraft is for Linux users who want a pre-configured window manager with a unique look out of the box. You get a pretty theme setup, but you can choose from a couple of pre-installed options (10 free themes) as well.

You can pick other window managers like Sway, Wayland desktop session, and unlock access to extra themes on Ko-fi by supporting the developer. So, some can call it a freemium model, and I do not mind that, considering you are paying the dev to give you a refined pre-configured experience, saving all the time to set it up yourself.

But, of course, nothing is ever perfect. Everything has flaws. It is you who pick what flaws you can live with, and what you can't.

ellen 38 points 2 years ago

Quick tip for the author and those reading, instead of doing as in the article noted e.g. sudo nano or the like, you can use sudoedit (or sudo -e). The advantage of this is that it will use whatever you have configured as an editor (through $SUDO_EDITOR, $VISUAL or $EDITOR), and will use your configuration files while editing instead of root's, meaning if you have a sick custom neovim or emacs setup you don't have to keep those settings files in sync with the root account. ;)

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vvv 11 points 2 years ago

More than that, your editor doesn't run with root permissions, which reduces the risk of accidentally overwriting something you didn't mean to.

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jjlinux 10 points 2 years ago

Almost 6 years using Linux exclusively, and I had no idea this existed. You just messed me up bad. I'm going to have so much fun with this.

Thank you so much.

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Psyhackological 3 points 2 years ago

I use it at work with many servers like EDITOR=vim sudo -e /etc/samba/smb.conf

However useful when you need some color highlighting or just numers then add it to .vimrc and EDITOR=vim in Bash config.

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xor 3 points 2 years ago

Holy moly

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petey 2 points 2 years ago

Oh wow, this is amazing info. Thanks!

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Kory 13 points 2 years ago

I like that article, I'm in a similar position at the moment. I've been using Mint on my Nvidia machine for a long time now, but with the new Mint 22 update that's also based on Ubuntu 24.04, I'm facing similar issues and so I've done some distrohopping over the past couple of weeks. I've tried Aurora/Bazzite and Nobara as Fedora based distros, Garuda and CachyOS as Arch based ones, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and probably something else I can't remember right now. All of them were great distros but had certain flaws that were offputting somehow. And I'm in no rush, since Mint 21.3 is still supported for a while.

I'm still open to suggestions what to try next! I'm getting faster and faster with fresh installs :)

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hanrahan 9 points 2 years ago

Doesn't #LMDE avoid Ubuntu if that's what you are looking at doing ? And cones from Debian itself.

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Kory 2 points 2 years ago

Yes of course, that's always an option. I was just trying to look over my Mint horizon and check out other distros and how they work. Exciting!

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Telorand 8 points 2 years ago

Nitrux was a unique one I saw the other day. You could also go for NixOS.

ETA: There's also instructions and a template from Universal Blue on how to create your own custom downstream distro, if there was something you wanted to change about their base images.

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Kory 5 points 2 years ago

Interesting, thanks! Never heard of Nitrux before.

Yes that's true. I just realised that I apparently tinker too much to use an immutable distro as of now. But I'm definitely keeping an eye on them.

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Telorand 6 points 2 years ago

The one I'm personally keeping an eye on is a future Universal Blue distro that's being built with Cosmic. It's not officially released to the public, but it's quietly doing automatic builds in their GitHub repository.

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AndrewZabar 11 points 2 years ago

For those times when I want something elegant, polished and mostly set to stay the same with very little customization, I go with Elementary OS. It’s really sweet.

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that_leaflet 3 points 2 years ago
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