I made a small browser game. You answer a few questions, then 32 distros (and 16 desktops) fight through a bracket to suggest one that fits how you actually use your computer.

It's meant to be fun, but the scoring and results are real suggestions rather than random. No signup, no ads, only anonymous aggregate stats. There's also a terminal-based campaign mode if you like messing with real commands.

This new and the campaign is only about 40% complete.

Hey everyone please don't bully me for not knowing how to solve this, but I'm trying to install games on Arch using elamgio or fitgirl repacks, however the installation gets stuck at 0.03% for fitgirl and 0 for elamgio. I've always played on steam, so I'm new to installing pirated games. I've tried using steam itself and lutris, or just by wine itself but i still get the same issue. I'd be thankful for your help

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So my grandma runs an ancient Toshiba Satellite C850-1g3 with a celeron 1000M, 256GB of hdd and 4GB of ddr3

She was complaining about it taking ages to boot and programs not starting fast

So i installed arch and made it look user friendly enough for her to understand

She loves it, W arch

Ps: she only uses whatsapp, a browser and office

So she wouldnt need to touch a terminal

Hi. I like to use paru to upgrade my packages.

I tried setting FileManager = less under [bin] in paru.conf but get:

error: unknown option 'FileManager' in section [options]

So, what are valid values for FileManager?

I don't mean old versions of config files for stuff you actively use. I mean like config files for software you've completely ignored for years now.

A great example for me is WMs. When I switch WM I don't exactly keep going back and forth just 'cause I miss the other ones. I stick to the one I like and old WMs' config files are left to rot in my .config until some major event happens (basically reinstalling the system would be the only thing).

I actually have a bare git repo which includes those config files, so I wouldn't even truly lose them if I deleted them. But I'd just feel terrible removing the part I wrote with my very hands of the thing I once spent everyday working, improving, doing most stuff on.

And yet, I still feel some amount of guilt keeping it, or I wouldn't be asking you this. I know that old awesome/Openbox config's down there ogling me in the worst kind of way - begging me to let it go 'cause even it knows its time to shine will not come again. So, I just thought I'd ask: how do you guys deal with old config files?

sorry, im kinda new to arch, so I have some bases, but not sure how to troubleshoot this, nor how to word it, so i'll just give an exemple.

I was playing rocket league when suddenly, waybar, discord and even Pipewire stopped working (there was prob a lot more but thats what I saw). I couldn't open my terminal (but hyprland still worked) to try to fix it, so I just went to finish my game. After a few minutes, audio came back, waybar too and I could finally start terminal and discord.

I wanted to get SOME logs, so i ran sudo dmesg -l err (not sure if its enough), and got this: https://pastebin.com/MZXn6b2E . From what I could see tho, doesn't seem useful

ALSO, I never had that issue before I started using my dualsense w/ bluetooth, so might be related?

Hi I have a Luks encrypted partition with TPM2 which worked fine until i update the system after which the tpm device is not loaded. I recovered the encrypted partition with recovery key

output of systemd-analyze has-tpm2:

partial
+firmware
-driver
+system
+subsystem
+libraries
  +libtss2-esys.so.0
  +libtss2-rc.so.0
  +libtss2-mu.so.0

output of dmesg | grep -iE "tpm|crb|tis|msft" :

efi: ACPI 2.0=0x8aefd014 SMBIOS=0x8a013000 SMBIOS 3.0=0x8a011000 ESRT=0x8a00fb98 RNG=0x8aebcf98 INITRD=0x73b9d518 TPMEventLog=0x8aeb3018 
[    0.000000] TPM Final Events table not present
[    0.009267] ACPI: TPM2 0x000000008AEF1000 000034 (v03 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 00000000 1025 00040000)
[    0.009339] ACPI: Reserving TPM2 table memory at [mem 0x8aef1000-0x8aef1033]
[    0.250196] platform MSFT0101:00: failed to claim resource 1: [mem 0xfed40000-0xfed40fff]
[    0.250205] acpi MSFT0101:00: platform device creation failed: -16
[    1.318022] systemd[1]: Starting TPM PCR Barrier (initrd)...
[    1.336810] systemd[1]: Finished TPM PCR Barrier (initrd).
[   12.358963] systemd[1]: Expecting device /dev/tpm0...
[   12.359208] systemd[1]: Expecting device /dev/tpmrm0...

So far tried clearing TPM in bios, enabling/disabling TPM.

Has there been any word regarding reopening the AUR? I really don't want the AUR registrations to be permanently closed due to some bad actors.

My laptop has an older AMD APU (A6-7310 APU with AMD Radeon Graphics) and Kernel driver in use is amdgpu.

It runs Arch Linux with Hyprland.

After a recent kernel update (7.1.2.arch3-1) or possibly firmware updates, the system now goes to a black screen before reaching TTY. It still boots and runs perfectly with the LTS kernel. (6.18.38-1) From the journal logs, I noticed messages like: "VRAM lost during GPU reset", "GPU recovery failed", "UVD not responding", "VCPU reset attempts".

Have you experienced something similar?

What do you think is the solution to this?

So today I noticed that steam-native-runtime can't build because lib32-sdl2_image is missing. Seems like it was removed from multilib recently, but wasn't dropped to AUR like it happened with the rest of the libraries.

So I wonder what's the reason for this? And also where I might get the original package build to actually get it in AUR

My main computer is an ASUS FX506HCB with an Intel i5-11400H and a Nvidia RTX3050. While it is a laptop, it sits permanently connected to an USB-C dock (HP G5) that connects to two external monitors (1080p@120Hz, 1080p@75Hz) using DP-alt. The laptop screen is permanently disabled (in software), since I have the lid of the laptop closed all the time. I also have my mice and keyboard connected to two usb ports of the dock and I use the integrated ethernet controller of the dock to connect to my home network.

I decided to try to install ArchLinux since I already use it in my travel laptop and there is almost anything that ties me anymore to W11. Some months ago, when nvidia released the open version of their drivers, there were some reports on crashes with Ampere-equipped laptops. So I decided to wait for a bit to see if those crashes were fixed. Yesterday I did ask for feedback ( https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/s/Aw4vHt2vOB ) and users commented running on very similar or the exact hardware without issues. So this morning, I removed my W11 nvme drive and plugged a spare empty drive to install Arch.

Installation when well without any issue and on first boot I was able to enter KDE and configure my monitor layout. After setting up and installing a few things I rebooted and then I found an issue - the nvidia driver is taking a long time (30+ seconds) to detect and configure the two external monitors. This caused an issue because plasma-login-manager will load much faster and due to the lack of external monitors, it will display on the internal display on the laptop. When the external monitors are finally detected and configured, it tries to show up in the new monitors, but it glitches (no background) and you can no longer log-in - putting the password and pressing enter just blocks the entire computer. I was able to get around this issue by opening the laptop lid, logging in while PLM was showing on the internal monitor and then waiting for the external monitors to show up. Then, I activated auto-login and with this I am able to boot to the plasma desktop without issue (but very slow - 30+ seconds).

I started to dig on what was going on and found the following:

• Both monitors are reporting corrupted EDIDs (or at least, partially corrupted EDIDs - it seems some part is readable and usable since I am able to select the max resolution available in each monitor)
• nvidia-drm is throwing an error indicating that is unable to it failed to get dynamic displays. This error is being thrown around 30s into boot - around the time that my external monitors are detected and configured.

Just to note, other devices of the USB Dock are operative from the beginning - I can use my keyboard/mice and the ethernet connection from early boot.

I tried to force an early KMS start of the nvidia (and intel) drivers by adding i915 and nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and then then regenerated the initramfs, to no avail. I also tried to disable one of the monitors and force load a custom EDID for the other (that I got from Windows using a software called MonInfo) using the instructions in Section 4 of the KMS article of ArchWiki.

¿Any ideas?

Noticed this morning when turning on and updating my Asus Vivobook 16 (AMD, M1605YA) with built in Mediatek MT79xx Wifi and BT module - Updated Arch, Kernel 7.1.2 was installed and after the reboot the module just worked, no manual intervention necessary. Wifi and Bluetooth.

I bought the laptop just before the ram and storage prices went bananas, and -of course- wiped Windows 11 off it as step 1. Only downside was the built in Mediatek 79xx didn't work. But no real issue as I just used a Wifi dongle. No need for that any more. Hooray!

Thx to all involved in making this happen!

I installed arch for the first time ever like 2 weeks ago and it's been pretty fun figuring things out, Im currently using hyprland and I've just been testing some things out. The issue I came across initially had to do with youtube, as I realized videos wouldn't load. Eventually i realized this had to do with wireplumber conflicting with pulseaudio probably, so I just disabled the wireplumber service as a whole and it worked fine.

However, today I tried to install obs in order to screen record and the screen record (pipewire) option would just display a black screen. Eventually I figured out that if i enabled the wireplumber service again obs would work, but youtube wouldn't (ofc).

So the problem is this; wireplumber is conflicting with probably pulseaudio which is my main audio manager (I've already put a lot of work to configure pulseaudio everywhere in all my programs and i don't really wanna start over with pipewire) but I need wireplumber to use obs. Is there any other way I can record my screen in obs without pipewire?

P.S. Sorry if the answer lays inside a 12 year old forum on a Chinese website, I didn't find anything.

I got Asus A15 rn but due to some issues my family member gotta take that one with them , so i got no other choice but to buy a new laptop under a fix budget , around 420$ ig , anyhow if there is any good laptop , i've been doing some research and got these laptop Thinkpad and all , but are they worth buying in 2026?
please lmk i dont have much time left

edit:-
i thought of buying lenovo ThinkPad T490

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 Pro

Ram: 8GB RAM

Storage: 256GB SSD

Worth it?

So i am trying out my first linux distro and if you're just gonna lecture me on not to use arch as a first distro don't bother commenting. So the thing is I am dual booting win11 and archlinux on the same drive (on different partitions obviously) and want to install it using archinstall and want to make sure i don't wipe my drive cuz there's some really important stuff on there so I want help with disk configuration

Edit: No reagebait just poor🥹

Edit2: Installation done have no problems other than wifi being unholily slow dropping to 0kbps occasionally every about 8secs

I was installing archlinux with the archinstall script. I tinker a lot and do a clean install every few days. This time while installing, everything went fine but as soon as it started installing the hyprland packages it started throwing an error stating the libdovi is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature). Then it failed. I did install the keyring package with pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring before starting everything up.

I use autologin, because I don't want to login a second time after unlocking the drive encryption. You can flame me for it - I don't care. Problem is that I have to type my user password to use the browser because KWallet for some reason doesn't want to unlock. The KWallet password is the same as the user password and I use the plasma-login-manager package for logging in. If it's needed - I'm on wayland. Probably a dumb one but I remember trying to set this up some time ago with something from the wiki and it did not work. Thanks!

Hi all,

I have a desktop PC that I have used the same Arch install on since late 2019. It has worked very well during that time, but recently started to exhibit issues. These issues started to surface at the same time, making me suspect they're related, though I don't know that for sure at the moment. I'll summarize them below. I'll try and be too verbose, but apologies in advance for the wall of text; I wanted to be sure not to miss any (potentially) relevant details. Any help will be appreciated :)

The symptoms

First off, pacman can't perform a full upgrade, mentioning multiple errors of the form

error: <package-name>: signature from "John Doe <johndoe@archlinux.org>" is unknown trust
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/<package-name>-<package-ver>-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).

Typically I would suspect an outdated keyring or a corrupted file in the cache. Thing is, I have already repeatedly updated the keyring (pacman -S archlinux-keyring), repopulated the keyring (pacman-key --init) and cleared the complete package cache (pacman -Sc). When I do all that and again try to upgrade, the same offending packages prevent it from succeeding. And these aren't no-name packages; they include things like the kernel and Docker.

Secondly, Firefox seems to be completely unusable due to stability issues. Sometimes this means that navigating to any address completely blanks that tab, other times that firefox will indefinitely try and load a page. Also very commonly, I get the dreaded Firefox crash screen. Somewhat curiously, Private Tabs don't seem to share this instability, so I figured it must have something to do with my profile. However, I nuked the original offending profile since I had found that it often helps with these sorts of stability issues. However, shortly after doing so I started to encounter the same issues.

Then, there was a small bug where when opening my shell, it informed me I had a corrupted .zsh_history file. I didn't think too much of it, since I was able to write the contents of that file to a new history file, and that was that. It does have me wondering, though, if there isn't some underlying issue, either hardware or partition.

Debugging I've tried

This is an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 system, B450 chipset. I have 32GB of DDR4 (4x8G; two sets of CMK16GX4M2B3200C16). The root and home partition are both on an M.2 SSD, in an LVM-on-LUKS setup. Both partitions are ext4. There is also another data drive which I won't consider further.

I first ruled out a failing SSD; smartctl reported no issues on the drive. I then booted into a live USB, and tried to see if there might have been some issues with the root and/or home partition. badblocks in read-only mode reported nothing for either partition. e2fsck -f -y -C0 also failed to report anything worthwhile.

I figured bad RAM might have something to do with it, though I was suspicious of this because the errors seemed to much more cleanly relate to something in my filesystem. Also, one of the two 2x8 kits was relatively new. Nevertheless, I did a MemTest86+ test, which first time round did report a bunch of errors without an XMP profile enabled, but when I then re-ran it with XMP, it passed the test. Also, I keep a Windows dual boot on a separate drive, and I haven't been experiencing any similar issues over there, which I would expect in case of a RAM issue.

Halp

I'm at a loss what might be the cause of this, if the issues are even related, and what might be a good solution. I've been considering using some of the free space on the SSD to create a new root partition, and see if that solves things long-term. But if someone else has a better idea, I'm all ears. Any other tests I could do to rule out corrupted ext4 partitions? Thanks!

been using it for 3 years even in production along veeam.

love the way it functions, where you are not thinking about incremental and full backups, every snapshot is full, but the speed and storage used is that of an incremental, its all deduplicated into hashed chunks that are kept or discarded.

Borg, Restic and others also work the same way... but Kopia is the one that has all the features straight out of the box, mainly being crossplatform, native cloud services support, having a GUI version for simpler dumb deployments, designed day1 for multithread.

Here are my notes on deployments, on linux I use systemd and ntfy to get push notifications on my phone if something fails...

Also planning to make a dashboard for it with prometheus and grafana, like I did for veeam B&R.

It just irks me a bit that on many arch systems I setup its the only package I have from AUR.

Its written in golang, so a single binary without runtime or some dependencies tree, so maybe it should be on the easier side on packaging and maintaining...

Hi, I'm new to Arch and I'm trying to install Arch in VirtualBox. I typed archinstall, and now I'm in the Arch configuration menu (timezones, locales, profile, etc.), and now it's time for disk configuration. But I got a message after I pressed “Use best-effort default partition layout” that says: “No disks were detected. A disk is required to be able to install Arch Linux.”

What should I do? I saw on the internet and on the Arch Wiki that I should go to BIOS, but I'm not sure if I can do that in VirtualBox.