My buddy and I are having a dispute. He is throwing around "I use arch BTW" but hes on Omarchy. I don't think he can say that unless hes actually using Arch and not an opinionated Arch Rice. What do you guys think?

Ive been on zorin for about 9 months now and think it's time to move to a distro that is more customisable, more mine and more cool in general. However, ive got things on zorin i don't want to lose. Ive got an insanely riced gnome i want to keep, 80gb of games, a lutris config that has been debugged by chatgpt more times than i care to remeber and generally just a bunch of micro configs, extentions and customisation i dont want to lose. Is there a way to install arch with gnome and have this transferred over to there? i understand drivers, some packages etc wont be able to but i want as much of this configuration and files to be transferred over. my first thought was just have a bunch of mountable volumes in my disk, but i dont know how i'd do that, as im dual booted with kali. any help would be appreciated

I want to use my old Lenovo laptop that still has INSADE, but I have a problem: I want to install Arch on it to learn more about Linux, but I don't know whether to do it on that laptop or buy a used ThinkPad to try Arch more comfortably.

(If you're wondering, the laptop has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of ROM, so I'm leaning more towards the ThinkPad.)

What do you think?

arch-wiki-docs is the package. I know it will be considered bloat and even a symlink to someone screaming "help me please" in the terminal would also be bloat.

When I see a person asking for help, I want to help them.

Can we just package this as a default option in the installer that the copy/paste script kiddies can access?

I'm sure it would be both less tedious and more socially acceptable if we could just give them a command that leads them to the wiki instead of disparagingly pasting a link to the wiki (It would make them feel like 1337 H@x2$) bless their hearts❤️

Edit: So, I was drunk when I posted this and maybe more now than I ought to be. I'm still drunk (not now if you're reading this after the alcohol has been metabolized) Honestly, just add a help file for the un-inducted. That's all I ask 😭 I'm tired of being tired of answering the same questions.

Hello folks!

I built a tool to simplify something a lot of us struggle with when dealing with DIY WM's (at least in the beggining of our journey), a way to manage and apply our wallpapers.

A simple Bash script to browse and apply them directly from the terminal, using swaybg, fzf, chafa and some more.

The project is fully open, and you can check it:

https://github.com/gustahxn/wallfinder

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wallfinder-git

I am just sharing this to maybe help one or other mate, and document this thing I did to learn and practice. I do not think this is something genius or a product.

Thank you!

https://reddit.com/link/1ti7484/video/0d1rskf7572h1/player

https://preview.redd.it/ona8gfo8572h1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=9af35cf485d452aa5872f770960196232844e637

Interesting.

Been trying to update my Arch system, and it keeps coming up as 'Nothing to do.' Since Saturday night. Is there something I'm missing, or is it something going on?

PDW

^(Arch, can't update,)

I just wanted everyone to know that, super important news, I know..
Also I made my first theme switcher so I'm happy :]

Is there a way to get notified about critical updates (e.g. security fixes for installed packages) only?

I don't want to miss out on critical fixes, but I also don't want to update too often for small, less important updates.

I understand that I can't (or at least shouldn't) selectively upgrade packages, and I don't mind upgrading the whole system when a security fix is available. It's more about update frequency.

A status indicator or even a small script I can run at login would be ideal.