[SOLVED]I just installed arch linux and i have no idea what to do......

[hearty cypress]

so basically this is my first time using linux and i installed arch with kde and i wanna do cool stuff, what should i do ? i am unsure what i want but i want my desktop to look cool and get a better understnading of both arch and kde i tried searching for guides and stuff but maybe my search terms are not correct or maybe i dont know what to search for, i would appreciate some sort of guide or help or something ! also cool things to do with linux/arch
: D

heres an example of what kind of thing i wanna go for :- https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1g9hpnr/kde_gruvbox_for_my_first_rice/

[lime pelican]

@hearty cypress what de/wm are you on?

[hearty cypress]

sorry i forgot to mention that, i am using kde

kde is an DE, right ? also i did menton it in my post
: D

[lime pelican]

Global themes are commonly provided by end users and not monitored. You should use extreme caution when downloading and applying global themes. They can run arbitrary code and loss of user data has occurred.

plasma is the de

[hearty cypress]

i see....can i see in terminal what i am using, i was under the impression that i was using kde

: (

[lime pelican]

KDE is a software project currently comprising a desktop environment known as Plasma

[hearty cypress]

i see, so i am running kde with plasma ? like kde plasma 6 ?

[lime pelican]

yes

[hearty cypress]

what is gruvbox ?

i just dont understand how to put my question in words haha, i want to make something like this of my desktop
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1g9hpnr/kde_gruvbox_for_my_first_rice/

[lime pelican]

this is a problem

[hearty cypress]

i see

anyways i can undestand how things work ? i dont really about the data since i just use this laptop to play games and learn linux

[lime pelican]

@hearty cypress almost all of that is too advanced for you

[hearty cypress]

how can i learn ?

[lime pelican]

what terminal editor do you use?

[hearty cypress]

the normal konsole....?

[lime pelican]

that is a terminal

terminal edtor is nano or vim

[hearty cypress]

oh......are you saying something like vim ?

i used nano when i was installing the arch

[lime pelican]

yes

[hearty cypress]

shouldnt there be a guide somewhere ? like all these people making all these cool ass desktops/Rice and there are no guides available for it ?

[lime pelican]

because everyone has differences in what should be in there config

like this

[hearty cypress]

how did you do it ? did you follow any guide ?

[lime pelican]

or this

[lime pelican]

or this

[lime pelican]

setting the background?

[hearty cypress]

no no no no like making the window looks transpaerent, no tilebars or anything, the blur and everything..

wait did you guys never had any newbs in this server ? i cant be the only one feeling this stupid T-T

[lime pelican]

first you start with a de, then you move to what I am using

[hearty cypress]

so basically fuck around and find out ?

[lime pelican]

yes

if you want, you can do what I do

@hearty cypress

[hearty cypress]

you said i can do what you do but then never said anything T-T

[lime pelican]

first you have to pick a wm

[hearty cypress]

like i3 or hyprland

[lime pelican]

start with awesome

pacman -S awesome

[hearty cypress]

can i use it with what i am using rn ? like the kde plasma ?

[lime pelican]

yes, with a warning

[hearty cypress]

what warning T-T

[lime pelican]

@hearty cypress Global themes are commonly provided by end users and not monitored. You should use extreme caution when downloading and applying global themes. They can run arbitrary code and loss of user data has occurred.

[hearty cypress]

yes....i have memorize this thing at this point XD

[lime pelican]

@hearty cypress do you have a background set?

[hearty cypress]

you mean a wallpaper ? i have default one set

[lime pelican]

go get a wallpaper you like

[hearty cypress]

done

[lime pelican]

install a terminal based editor

[hearty cypress]

vim or nano which is better ?

[lime pelican]

it's a preference

[hearty cypress]

for a beginner ?

[lime pelican]

I use neovim

[hearty cypress]

whats neovim ?

nvm i will just get neovim

[lime pelican]

Neovim is a fork of Vim aiming to improve the codebase, allowing for easier implementation of APIs, improved user experience and plugin implementation.

[hearty cypress]

installed neovim

[lime pelican]

this is my neovim config

[lime pelican]

this was my kde config

[hearty cypress]

ohh

what do i need this for ?

[lime pelican]

need what?

[hearty cypress]

the neovim i mean

[lime pelican]

to edit files from the command line

[hearty cypress]

ohhh and why cant normal konsole work for this ?

[lime pelican]

konsole is a terminal, not a terminal editor

[hearty cypress]

i might need to learn more about this whole thing

becuase I UNDERSTAND NOTHING

: D

[lime pelican]

this is why we don't go to arch for "my first linux experience"

[hearty cypress]

haha i love it when i am truly miserable, theres just something about being in a constant state of anxiety and uncertainity eating you from the inside

i will continue to learn more about this whole thing and close this thread for now

thanks @lime pelican for you time

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[hearty cypress]

[SOLVED]I just installed arch linux and i have no idea what to do......

[lime pelican]

don't go for the unixporn/socks right away, start with what you have now, and in time, you will be able to do the config you want

[lime pelican]

you're welcome

[hearty cypress]

hopefully
: D

[slim raven]

@hearty cypress if you really want to get a smooth looking and mid weight DE you shou should give hyprland a try, it's easy to configure and so far its my first time using linux too and im on arch for 2 days and hyprland is doing great for me

p.s i'm using hyprland with gnome but kde won't be any less

[hearty cypress]

you got any good tuts for it ?

[slim raven]

for installation or customization?

[hearty cypress]

Both
: D

[slim raven]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLSOLn4wbeU
^^^ this is what i watched to install hyprland without problems sort of a recent video so you shouldn't come to any problems if you do i could help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSXFXpVZ9kY&t=185s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW3JKs1_oVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EujO_5KvCCo

these 3 videos should help you learn basic customization of hyprland, the rest you can tweak everything by yourself or seek for guides online maybe by the community instead of youtube since there aren't many good guides on youtube
or ask chatgpt hyprland actually has a chatgpt redirecting button

[hearty cypress]

Thank you so much homie

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[slim raven]

you're welcome

[hearty cypress]

This is what I did using default kde and some kwscripts

[slim raven]

yeah that looks good i'm still on the part of installing needed things i havent really started tweaking too much

[hearty cypress]

Lemme know if you do some cool things
: D

[slim raven]

this is it for now lol

[slim raven]

yeah i'm gonna start tweaking it soon i wanna do some nice lookin things

[hearty cypress]

sheeesh thats looking pretty neat, is this what you have cooked up with the tuts nad stuff you have sent me ?

[hearty cypress]

same wanting to make my desktop look cool is the only reason i go into linux hehe

[slim raven]

i didnt configure many things from the tutos

i'll do em later

fetch image took me 40 mins to figure out by myself

[hearty cypress]

thats cool

ohhh wow

i was told that you should use fastfetch now

[slim raven]

yeah i use fastfetch

[hearty cypress]

lol gotta love linux am i right ?

[slim raven]

by default in terminal

[hearty cypress]

ohhhh

[slim raven]

yepp its my first time too

its confusing at first but im gettin used to it

[hearty cypress]

same, but its fun

[slim raven]

i keep clicking alt tab though

[hearty cypress]

i do and it works for me ??????? wuttt

what happens when you press alt tab ?

[slim raven]

alt tab is to switch thru tabs on windows

its win+tab aka super+tab on linux

u can customzie binds tho

[hearty cypress]

it works in arch

by dafault

atleast in my machine

[slim raven]

idk its super tab for me but i dont wanna change i prefer to learn default binds

i might change some binds to make them closer to my hand

[hearty cypress]

i use kde plasma 6, default everything

it was like this for me out of the box

[slim raven]

i use arch & gnome

for hyprland

[hearty cypress]

thats cool

i will see how things turn out to be when i install it in my system with kde

[slim raven]

alr bro goodluck

[hearty cypress]

thanks
: D

[hearty cypress]

hey ! any idea why this might be happening ?

[slim raven]

something wrong with the mirror i think

u should get kitty instead of alacritty though honestly

i switched

from alacritty to kitty

[hearty cypress]

i dont know what these words means T-T i was jus following the guide you sent T-T

[slim raven]

instead of alacritty install kitty

sudo pacman -S kitty

[hearty cypress]

yay -S ml4w-hyprland i was actually doing this

: >

theres not kitty here

[slim raven]

ohhh

i forgot

hyprland has alacritty automatically

right uh

can u retry?

[hearty cypress]

yes

i tried with yay instead of paru

and its working now

[slim raven]

ohh yess

i had that error too

and i used yay

[hearty cypress]

yay coming in clutch fr

[slim raven]

paru sucks

[hearty cypress]

fr

[slim raven]

it took me 20 mins to figure out i could use yay for that aswell

[hearty cypress]

me n gang really be hating paru

[hearty cypress]

btw does this work for all repos/packages ?