Arch Linux on Reddit

I have a laptop with intel celeron and 4 gb of ram and ive been wanting to put arch on it, is it the right choice or should i chose another distro? submitted by /u/cleitongrauzx [link] [comments]

hey im trying to shrink one of my hard drives partitions but it just fails it has 132 gib storage and im trying shrink 70 gib off. it is unmounted submitted by /u/StraightClothes4730 [link] [comments]

I know this post probably sounds really suspicious, but me and a friend were arguing over how hard it is to break their system, which is running arch, if it's logged in but I don't have the password so I can't do sudo etc (I'm not exactly sure what I can and can't do). I need some ideas of commands I can run or things I can do that will absolutely destroy his os without privileges (if it just crashes it, that's still good, but I'd rather something unfixable). (Also, don't worry, everything is backed up and he was going to try a new distro soon anyway) submitted by /u/spaciousputty [link] [comments]

I'm looking to get some consistency between my linux distros. Moving away from windows desktops. I know the deck has an immutable filesystem that I don't necessarily need to copy. But I'd like to copy all other settings, packages that are installed basically. I tried bazzite but I don't like using different package managers and all other settings since its fedora based. Looking to improve my arch knowledge submitted by /u/Bug-in-4290 [link] [comments]

Hi, I recently purchased a Thinkpad Yoga X1 and installed Arch Linux on it. I have been using and tweaking it for the last 2 months, and its nearing perfection for me. But the fingerprint reader, I cannot get it to work. I have looked all around and tried several tools on the AUR, Github and others. It seems like it does not even register with "lsusb" in my terminal. The fingerprint reader itself looks intact, even its cables and connectors inside the laptop. So I have decided to ask for help. If anyone has experience or ideas on how to fix it, please help! submitted by /u/AcceptableMeaning308 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I'm using an Intel GPU that's not supported by any of the latest kernels and I can only use my PC booting with the "nomodeset" parameter. Unfortunately, apps for adjusting color temperature like gammastep, redshift, wlsunset don't seem to work that way, regardless if I use X or Wayland. Is there any workaround that I can try to get something working for the generic (vesa I guess) video driver? submitted by /u/Impossible-Sun827 [link] [comments]

Hi, I'm relatively new to Linux and wanted to install and set up my audio interface (Yamaha ZG01). I could install and run the software via bottles But the connected interface is not recognized by the system or the software. I would be very happy about any help or maybe even a solution submitted by /u/Wonderful_Durian_946 [link] [comments]

TLDR: A second internal drive will cause a certain randomness with the device names that should be used in fstab. This should be avoided by using UUIDs in that file instead of device names. I bashed my head off this for several hours yesterday, so I post this in the hope of saving others the same pain. I had an additional internal hard drive installed in my laptop, and had a huge headache trying to get it recognised by the system. Sometimes the system would boot directly into maintenance mode, and other times it booted just fine. When the boot worked, I was able to mount the new drive from the command line with no issues. The problem was that my /etc/fstab used device names in the first field. This had worked well for years since I only had one internal drive, and so it always got the same name. But now there is a second drive and so the name of this drive is somewhat random and unpredictable from boot to boot. So every time I rebooted it had some chance of swapping the names of the drives, and so might not find the files it needed to successfully start. Of course, I didn't realise that there was a random contribution and so I was changing things from boot to boot. My stupid pattern-matching brain found patterns that didn't actually exist, and so led me down stupid paths. *sigh* In the end, using UUID's in the fstab was the right solution, and getting these from genfstab -U / after one of the successful restarts. (genfstab can be found in arch-install-scripts) submitted by /u/santoshasun [link] [comments]

I've been looking forward to the new Framework 12 and planned on using it as my main laptop running Linux, most likely Arch. The tablet capabilities didn't really grab my attention much at first; I've never owned a tablet or a 2-in-1, and I've never had much use for one, but seeing that this device is that, I want to try it out and have some uses for it now. I know Windows has support for these types of devices, but how well do they work on Linux? Is it a relatively simple thing to set up, or is it a big hassle with a ton of steps? I'd basically just be doing drawing and external display stuff for Elite Dangerous, so relatively simple things. How's your experience in Arch with these kinds of devices? Any particular DEs to use, or maybe another distro entirely? Any insight is welcome before I commit to a pre-order. Thanks! submitted by /u/such-a-short-time [link] [comments]

Hello, I've been looking online for answers, even asked ChatGPT for guidance, but all threads are old and I can't seem to find a solution. And I can't afford to switch GPU just to get Arch to work right now... Anyway, does anybody have a solution for this common issue? I've ran "regular" nvidia and nvidia-open, none solved it. I have set PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations: 1. My PC just won't start after going to sleep, so I have to hold down power button to shut down and restart the PC. I also have an intel i7 processor if that matters. Also, I'm new to Arch/Linux and just learning to set up basic functionality, but this issue is throwing me off so I'm checking to see if I can find any help here. submitted by /u/TypeOk4038 [link] [comments]

I think cfdisk is much easier to use and at least worth mentioning. submitted by /u/Damglador [link] [comments]

Hello, I'm running currently Arch with 6.13.8-tkg-BORE custom kernel. I wanted to update to 6.14.0, using the same way I built the first one: git clone https://github.com/Frogging-Family/linux-tkg.git cd linux-tkg # Optional: edit the "customization.cfg" file makepkg -si But, when it comes to the scheduler selection I can't choose anything except default EEVDF: https://imgur.com/a/Ad0rBpW Any ideas how to fix this? :) submitted by /u/TaresPL [link] [comments]

Glitch int the GTK theme Please have a look at this. I have no idea how to repair this. But if someone could help me out, I'd be grateful. My hardest guess the theming is just incompatible with the current version of gnome-shell. submitted by /u/Wooden-Ad6265 [link] [comments]

As the title said I broke my system and now can't boot back in tried to go into chroot and mount but error still remons what I am doing wrong Img 1:- (services failed show up when I try to login) link:- https://imgur.com/a/AihG82v How can I fix this? Chroot won't work for some reason what I am doing wrong submitted by /u/blune_bear [link] [comments]

Going through arch wiki config file often have number in front of them, like systemd network for example "20-wired.network" or "25-wireless.network" Is this a naming convention? If so relevant links would be appreciated. submitted by /u/Pitiful_Tooth_5472 [link] [comments]

im still a newbie when it comes to arch so sorry if im missing any key details i just installed arch today and everything worked fine at first, but suddenly my mic stopped working, i switched over to pulseaudio and the mic started working again but the audio was gone. im seriously lost and dont know what to do wpctl status shows: ```PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, cookie:199486755] └─ Clients: 32. kwin_wayland [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:615] 33. pipewire [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:767] 34. libcanberra [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:742] 36. xdg-desktop-portal [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:623] 37. [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:742] 38. libcanberra [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:758] 39. plasmashell [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:758] 40. [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:758] 41. WirePlumber [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:2838] 43. kitty Terminal [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:2766] 45. Firefox [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:954] 58. WirePlumber [export] [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:2838] 98. libcanberra [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:2553] 127. System Settings [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:2553] 133. wpctl [1.4.1, kiq@DesnaRkiqA, pid:3041] Audio ├─ Devices: │ 59. GM107 High Definition Audio Controller [GeForce 940MX] [alsa] │ 60. Built-in Audio [alsa] │ ├─ Sinks: │ 35. Built-in Audio Pro [vol: 1.00] │ 55. Built-in Audio Pro 3 [vol: 1.00] │ * 57. Built-in Audio Pro 2 [vol: 1.00] │ 80. GM107 High Definition Audio Controller [GeForce 940MX] Digital Stereo (HDMI) [vol: 1.00] │ ├─ Sources: │ * 56. Built-in Audio Pro [vol: 1.00] │ ├─ Filters: │ └─ Streams: 46. kitty Terminal 67. output_FL > VT1708S Alt Analog:playback_AUX0 [active] 68. output_FR > VT1708S Alt Analog:playback_AUX1 [active] 49. kitty Terminal 75. output_FL > VT1708S Alt Analog:playback_AUX0 [active] 76. output_FR > VT1708S Alt Analog:playback_AUX1 [active] 124. Firefox 122. output_FL > VT1708S Alt Analog:playback_AUX0 [paused] 123. output_FR > VT1708S Alt Analog:playback_AUX1 [paused] Video ├─ Devices: │ ├─ Sinks: │ ├─ Sources: │ ├─ Filters: │ └─ Streams: ``` from what i know it was supposed to appear under 'filters:' Settings └─ Default Configured Devices: 0. Audio/Sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.pro-output-2 any help would be appreciated, i posted a thread on the gg.archlinux discord under the tag id 1357110612122927154 my dc user is:ki1q if anyone prefers to message from there, im not that active on reddit thank u for reading !! submitted by /u/bizarreapplez [link] [comments]

Like the title says I am trying to get FSR 3.1 upscaler and frame gen onto Hogwarts legacy and it was going well until it said i required hardware accelerated gpu scheduling and i cant seem to understand how to get that running any help would be great! I am still a novice with arch linux and linux as a whole, only been on a few months now Thanks in Advance! submitted by /u/Recoil_035 [link] [comments]

Recently reinstalled arch and threw a bunch of different people's dots together to get to what I'm looking at now (running on hyprland), but I now have this issue where every time I get a notification I also get an error message as a notification. Not quite a noob but still don't really know my way around all of this. Seems to be nothing relevant in the journal, and I don't know how to receive more information about this error. Can't include screenshots but the error message reads: "Failed to run script: notifi... Output:" Tried checking if i have conflicting notification daemons or something but that doesn't seem to be the case either. I'm only assuming that this is some random custom script that was included in one of the dotfile installers I used? Any clues on what it may be if not, and how to fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated :) submitted by /u/IsonVoid [link] [comments]

I've been Googling for a bit here and finding people with similar problems, and I've tried most things I've been able to find. I am trying to dual boot Arch and Windows. I have gone through the installation and successfully configured and installed Grub to my EFI partition and made sure that the files are actually on the partition. Note that I have two separate ones, I know that's a little janky but shouldn't cause issues. The partition itself is confirmed to be an EFI System partition by fdisk -l. Secure and fast boot are off, along with TPM. The SSD is formatted as GPT. Whenever I install Grub, it will show up in efibootmgr. However when I reboot, I do not have the option to boot into Grub and furthermore the option does not appear in efibootmgr if I choose to boot back into my install USB. It will re-appear if I install Grub again, but once again disappears at shutdown. I have tried using the --removable flag on the grub-install command. As a potentially related note, whenever I reboot out of the Arch USB all of my bootable options disappear except the USB, and I need to reboot to get them back- not sure what's up with that, but maybe it has to do with the problem at hand. I am using a Gigabyte BIOS and the board is a B450M-DS3H. Any other info I can provide I will and thank you in advance. submitted by /u/masterkitty2006 [link] [comments]

I am not your typical computer user. I have well over 100 VMms in my homelab on Proxmox as well as KVM/QEMU and VMware workstation on various desktops or laptops. Including Raspberry Pis I have over 20 physical computers. I enjoy tinkering with them. I enjoy installing configuring, updating and breaking operating systems whether its Windows, macOS Linux or something else. I have been using Linux for over 25 years since 1998. I would consider myself an average Linux user. I am comfortable working on a system from the command line or over ssh. Just about all of my Arch based systems have the testing repos configured. I like living on the edge. Today as just about everyday, I start updating systems. There was a KDE update to 6.3.4 and I wanted to see if that rolled out today. I updated one of my VMs that is on my Proxmox host. I always review the list of packages that are going to be updated. ALWAYS. Its set to auto login. After a reboot, I was greeted by a black screen. No Nvidia drivers are involved here, its a VM. So I go to a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F3 and start to do some troubleshooting. I have a function/alias in my .bashrc that shows me a list of applications that have been installed in reverse chronological order and the date/time of install. I review it and the mesa package immediately jumps out at me. There is a package in their AUR called downgrade. It does what the name implies. You run it like this "sudo downgrade package-name" and it shows a list of package versions that are available online or in your cache. I select the prior version 25.02 and it reinstalls it. Then it asks if you would like to add that package to the exclude list in the pacman.conf file. So I do. The system reboots and I am greeted by the desktop. Good guess that it was the mesa package. So I go through this on 7 other Arch VMs testing to see if they have the same issue or not. They do. The take away from this should be this, if you want to run Arch Linux you should feel comfortable at the command line. One day something will break and you will have no GUI to help you out. Know what packages are installed. Review them when you update. If you run KDE then you have a ton of packages that start with K. Same thing for Gnome, lots of gnome packages. XFCE lots of xfce4 packages. Know the kernels, bootloader, and login manager you use. It could be sddm, gdm or lightdm or something else. Have the arch iso on a thumb drive. Know how your file system was installed and know how to chroot in to fix something. Unless something is totally screwed up, reinstalling should be your last resort. You built your system. You should be familiar with it. Unless you used archinstall. Then you should get familiar with it. As for the mesa situation, I will be filing a bug report to the developers. As /u/archover says... good day and from me thanks for reading. submitted by /u/onefish2 [link] [comments]

The problem is that I don't see any addresses that have swap memory enabled in sudo nano /etc/fstab I know it can be disabled with: sudo swapoff /rute or -a, but what I'm looking for is to disable it forever. https://imgur.com/a/YKbeGn6 https://imgur.com/a/naqmiDF submitted by /u/TheFranck__ [link] [comments]

The postgresql.service is enabled but when I start the computer I see in journalctl that Starting PostgreSQL database server... doesn't show until more than 2 minutes after and there's no errors. This started happening the last few months with v16 and same when I upgraded to 17. Before it would start within a second. Do you have a clue why this is happening? Is there something in systemd that is telling it to delay? No other services have this delay. submitted by /u/Beautiful-Log5632 [link] [comments]

i know something like a display menager such as SSDM is needed to boot into a DE but is there anyway to disable SSDM and go directly to plasmas loggin screen? idk linux newbie probably a stupid question. submitted by /u/Recent_Crew_3059 [link] [comments]

[SOLVED] We were all looking at the wrong things. The issue was extremely simple: the bootloader entry was missing its initrd line: initrd /initramfs-linux.img ~~~ I'm planning to switch to Arch full-time, but I figured it would be wise to try the setup and config on a VMware machine first (UEFI mode, drive is SATA). I want to use LUKS over LVM, because I think this will give me the best flexibility for the multi-disk setup my machine runs on. I also opted to use systemd-boot as my bootloader. I've been following the Installation Guide, LUKS-on-LVM guide, and (to a lesser extend and mostly for the explanations provided) Fernando Ceja's guide. Now, when I go for reboot after installation, I just end up in kernel panic. This is the log (section): 1 /dev/root: Can't open blockdev 2 fbcon: Taking over console 3 VFS: Cannot open root device "/dev/mapper/root" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 4 Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: 5 0800 67108864 sda 6 driver: sd 7 0801 524288 sda1 4dff6d8d-e1f0-44b5-8f7b-0b396d4a77c6 8 0802 66581504 sda2 d973a353-ee33-4a96-bc0a-43d23978fa05 However, when booted into the install shell and checking `lsblk -f` after opening the LUKS volume, this is my output: loop 0 squashfs 4.0 sda |_ sda1 vfat FAT32 6E06-2DC1 |_ sda2 LVM2_member LVM2 001 oIYGV8-K335-Okwu-SGC6-3FSC-EnUZ-AjgCap |___ main-swap |___ main-root crypto_LUKS 2 cbaccb88-c30a-41ac-9f77-1a5826397ca9 |_____ root ext4 1.0 6b6534ce-4c4e-416f-a691-7ed5efc2d05c As you can see, the "available partitions" printed from kernel panic are not even in here... Boot loader entry: title Arch Linux linux /vmlinuz-linux options rd.luks.name=cbaccb88-c30a-41ac-9f77-1a5826397ca9=root root=/dev/mapper/root rw mkinitcpio hooks: HOOKS=(base systemd autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard sd-vconsole block sd-encrypt lvm2 filesystems fsck) crypttab: swap /dev/main/swap /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,sector-size=4096 fstab: /dev/mapper/root / ext4 defaults 0 1 UUID=6E06-2DC1 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 2 /dev/mapper/swap none swap defaults 0 0 --- I know that the panic message basically means "dude, I have no idea, what block device you are talking about" and since the kernel seems to see totally different UUIDs than I do, it kind of makes sense. However, I'm completely stumped about what I did wrong; I have quintuple-checked the guide about disk encryption and I see no difference in setup... submitted by /u/traxx2012 [link] [comments]

Linux noob here. Been tinkering around on a virtual machine before I decide if I want to install Arch on my host PC. I'm kind of confused as per what the difference is between apps installed through pacman and using flatpaks? I had installed KDE Plasma and the Discover app store needed me to install the flatpak package before it would do anything (why isn't that just a dependency?). I'm just kind of confused because when I went to get Yakuake, the website seems to push you towards installing the flatpak, but it also says that you can install it using pacman and I'm just curious if one version has an advantage over the other. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/Nathan5541 [link] [comments]

First read the Arch Linux FAQ from the wiki Code of conduct How do I ask a proper question? Smart Questions XYProblem Please follow the standard list when giving a problem report. What AUR helper should I use? There are no recommended AUR helpers. Please read over the wiki entry on AUR helpers. If you have a question, please search the subreddit for previous questions. If your AUR helper breaks know how to use makepkg manually. I need help with $derivativeDistribution Use the appropriate support channel for your distribution. Arch is DIY distribution and we expect you to guide us through your system when providing support. Using an installer defeats this expectation. Why was the beginners guide removed? It carried a lot of maintenance on the wiki admin as it duplicated a lot of information, and everyone wanted their addition included. It was scrapped for a compact model that largely referenced the main wiki pages. Why Arch Linux? Arch compared to other distributions Follow the wiki. Random videos are unsupported. <plug>Consider getting involved in Arch Linux!</plug> submitted by /u/Foxboron [link] [comments]