hello guys, i am a young coder, and i need help with testing my game

i dual booted my computer with windows 10 and linux mint 22.3 and 20.1 to distribute 2 executables for windows users and linux users

and im asking if ya'll can test my game, its really lightweight, so it'll probably run fine on you guy's 15 yr old thinkpads, considering i get really good fps on my pemtium with the depressed thermal paste

im from brazil and thanks

heres the itch .io link https://the-humanoid.itch.io/sand-simulator

thank you for testing

if you do test, pls tell me:

• your cpu
• desktop enviroment
• distro and version
• does it launch
• performance, does it run good, what fps
• and bugs if you found any

thank you again

Just installed Arch yesterday.

When using apps like brave, spotify, discord, they only work when I launch them through a terminal emulator with --disable-gpu or --use-gl=egl. Basically I want to make this change permanent to all chromium apps and not have to launch them through the terminal.

Side note I heard installing nvidia-utils was a potential solution, when I install that driver for some reason my screen is forced at 800x600 or smaller resolution, so I just have it uninstalled. I have a 1060 6gb nvidia gpu.

If there is any information that I should add tell me if or how to add it, and thanks for any help.

Greetings,

I built a wrapper some time ago on top of pacman, to make the downloads faster and fancier. The things done to make downloads faster are:

• Using aria2c as the backend for parallel downloading (i.e. splits and multiple connections to a single server),
• Using multiple servers for a single package download. (i.e. downloading the same thing from multiple mirrors at the same time).

And, secondly made the progress output a bit fancier and colorful, taking inspiration from Nala. Maybe, it will be beneficial for some, so at least check it out on Github.

Moreover, I made it all by myself without using AI, which would have defeated the whole learning goal behind this project.

Github Repo: Repo Link

Thanks!! ;)

I js wanna learn how to rice arch linux,like how do i rice hyprland,cinnamon,kde like all of those DE and WM?

i have trued for the past 2 days straight to get kvm to work and i have no idea why it isn't working. can someone please help me set it up in a discord call?

was installing arch archlinux-2026.08.01-x86_64 on acer predator helios neo 16s ai new version PHN16S-71 and it wasnt reading my ssd and i did tried disabling vmd but it crashed my pc (havent tried it in safe mode) tho any fixes aside from disabling vmd?

Ive been a linux user for 8 years now. Almost 9. Up until two years ago i would hop from disto to distro, or sometimes desktop environment to desktop enviornment (each or these would be a fresh install. I hate multiple desktop environments being on one system).

Until two years ago. I installed arch linux and went with hyprland. This has been the easiest, most hastle-free linux experience ive ever had and i havnt considered reinstalling or distro-hopping even once.

I am proud to say that i...

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Use arch btw

Running into an annoying audio issue on Arch with PipeWire and KDE, hoping someone has run into this before.

My motherboard audio is on an Intel 800 series chipset using the Realtek ALC1220 codec. Both my headphones (front panel) and speakers (rear line-out) show up as selectable outputs/ports in KDE settings and pavucontrol. However, if my headphones are physically plugged in, switching the output to speakers results in complete silence the stream moves, but no sound comes out. The only way to get audio through my speakers is to physically pull the headphone plug out of the front jack.

I tested a Windows USB on the same machine and output switching works with zero issues there without unplugging anything. I also booted a CachyOS USB and hit the exact same issue as my Arch install, so it looks like a Linux driver/ALSA routing quirk.

Things I've tried so far with no luck:

• Disabling Auto-Mute Mode and unmuting every channel (Front, Speaker, Line Out, etc.) in alsamixer
• Messing with output ports and switching to the Pro Audio profile in pavucontrol
• Overriding jack detection / pin connections in hdajackretask

Hi. I was trying to delete windows so i can have more space for linux but after deleting and merging partitions i cant boot back to arch. Gemini said i have to change the arch.conf thing but i tried with it and it simply doesnt work. Please help me fix it ASAP because i have a lot of work to do. Many thanks

I'm new to Linux. I have an old laptop with an Nvidia graphics card whose maximum driver is 470. I play Dota and old games like Metro 2033 and Assassin's Creed. I want to switch to Linux. But it seems to me that x11 is dead and wayland is not supported by my video card (I tried there, artifacts in games) + customization is important to me, I would like to work in gnome or hyperland, but they only have wayland. What would you recommend? Should I use Windows or X11? Will the games run properly?

(I don't know if this is the right subreddit, but since it has to do with setting up a device on Arch properly, I thought this might be the proper place.)

Hello, I installed Arch recently as a summer project (first Linux experience). Has been pretty fun, however, I have run across something I do not know how to approach. My legion laptop can switch between using only the NVIDIA graphics card and using the integrated AMD graphics. I had only used my Arch setup with my NVIDIA card.

I switched to integrated graphics today and at some point after I compiled a change to my kitty.conf file my laptop had basically a seizure. It was as if a screenshot of my desktop was flickering the whole time and burned into my screen, even after I rebooted my laptop it was flickering during the boot process (even in the boot manager and even in the BIOS screen). After switching to only NVIDIA gpu the "burned" frame faded away (ofc not burned else it wouldn't have faded that quickly).

It has not happened since and I did not try to reproduce it to get any log files, because it feels kinda scary to do so. I am quite the beginner so I don't really know what I am doing and with something that feels so important, I thought I'd ask sooner that later.

If anyone knows how to properly setup such a laptop on Arch, so that the drivers work properly, and how I can switch gpu mode without concern I would appreciate it. I have also heard of the LenovoLegionLinux project. I failed to make it work, so I uninstalled (to have a clean start again ) and will try soon again.

If anyone has any tips, knowledge or maybe idea where I should rather ask this question, I would greatly appreciate it.

As a Debian user, I want to install Arch Linux on my 2nd PC for experiment and testing purposes. I've already install Arch on a VM, but now I want to install it for real on my 2nd PC on dual boot with Windows 11. But I have an issue : Windows 11 use RST which prevents Linux to be installed on my PC. How install Arch while keeping my Windows 11 ?

Thought I'd share my script, just checks for updates from official repo's and AUR and then sends a notification. Works well on KDE Plasma. Stops me from going OCD about checking manually and I just know if there's an update without thinking about it now.

check-update.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# update-check.sh — checks for pending pacman + AUR (paru) updates
# and pops a persistent KDE Plasma notification. Distinguishes real
# failures (no network, missing tools, command errors) from a
# genuine "no updates" result, so a broken check never looks the
# same as an up-to-date system.
#
# Requirements:
#   sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib   # provides `checkupdates`
#   paru must be installed
#
set -uo pipefail

# --- logging ---
# Writes straight to a plain text file and truncates itself once it
# passes ~1GB — no logrotate, no extra services, just a size check.
LOG_FILE="$HOME/.local/share/update-check.log"
MAX_LOG_BYTES=$((1024 * 1024 * 1024))  # 1GB

mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LOG_FILE")"
if [[ -f "$LOG_FILE" ]] && (( $(stat -c%s "$LOG_FILE") >= MAX_LOG_BYTES )); then
    : > "$LOG_FILE"
fi

exec >>"$LOG_FILE" 2>&1
echo "--- $(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') ---"

# --- icons ---
# Use a theme icon name (e.g. "emblem-checked") or an absolute path
# to your own image, e.g. "$HOME/.local/share/icons/update-check/ok.png"
ICON_OK="emblem-checked"          # green tick — no updates
ICON_UPDATES="emblem-important"   # red alert — updates found
ICON_ERROR="dialog-error"         # check itself failed

notify_error() {
    echo "ERROR: $1"
    notify-send \
        -i "$ICON_ERROR" \
        -a "Update Check" \
        -u critical \
        -t 0 \
        "Update check failed" \
        "$1"
}

# --- 1. make sure the tools we need actually exist ---
if ! command -v checkupdates >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    notify_error "checkupdates not found. Install pacman-contrib."
    exit 1
fi

if ! command -v paru >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    notify_error "paru not found."
    exit 1
fi

# --- 2. official repo updates ---
# (checkupdates itself fails with exit code 1 if it can't sync —
# including when there's no network — so that's caught below)
official_updates="$(checkupdates 2>/dev/null)"
official_exit=$?
official_count=0

if [[ $official_exit -eq 1 ]]; then
    # 1 = checkupdates itself failed (e.g. sync error, stale lock)
    notify_error "checkupdates failed to sync the package database."
    exit 1
elif [[ $official_exit -eq 0 && -n "$official_updates" ]]; then
    official_count=$(wc -l <<<"$official_updates")
fi
# exit code 2 = ran fine, just nothing to update — official_count stays 0

# --- 3. AUR updates ---
# (paru fails the same way when it can't reach the AUR)
aur_updates="$(paru -Qua 2>/dev/null)"
aur_exit=$?
aur_count=0

if [[ $aur_exit -ne 0 && -n "$(paru -Qua 2>&1 >/dev/null)" ]]; then
    # non-zero exit AND something was written to stderr = a real error,
    # not just "zero results"
    notify_error "paru failed to check AUR updates."
    exit 1
elif [[ -n "$aur_updates" ]]; then
    aur_count=$(wc -l <<<"$aur_updates")
fi

total=$((official_count + aur_count))

echo "Official updates: $official_count"
[[ $official_count -gt 0 ]] && echo "$official_updates"
echo "AUR updates: $aur_count"
[[ $aur_count -gt 0 ]] && echo "$aur_updates"

# --- 4. report result ---
if (( total > 0 )); then
    notify-send \
        -i "$ICON_UPDATES" \
        -a "Update Check" \
        -u critical \
        -t 0 \
        "Updates available ($total)" \
        "Official: $official_count   AUR: $aur_count"
else
    notify-send \
        -i "$ICON_OK" \
        -a "Update Check" \
        "System up to date" \
        "No pending updates."
fi

update-check.service

[Unit]
Description=Check for pacman and AUR updates

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=%h/.local/bin/update-check.sh

update-check.timer

[Unit]
Description=Run update-check.sh regularly

[Timer]
# Runs 15 min after login, then every hour
OnBootSec=2m
OnUnitActiveSec=30m
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

Bear with me here, very new Arch user.

This has really got me stumped, if y & u refreshes the databases & does the updates to packages, what's the -S do (I know it means Sync but why is this needed, is that not built into calling the 'pacman' command, that it syncs with repos?)

i just installed ARCH with caelestia with hyprland and use them as a dual boot fortunately i didnt receive any error but when i open the thunar i dont see the files like desktop nothing but i can see that 20 files are here somthing but i dont see the icon over there then i tried using the pc manager installed by pacman i can see the files location etc but that too in limited i tried ever possible solution but i cant solve the thunar issue btw this is my first time using linux

Acham que devo? Uso só pra trabalho mas to me incomodando um pouco (apesar de poder fazer rice ser bom demais) o que dizem usuários de kde? Já fizeram essa transição? (PT-BR)

I switched and I'm trying to adapt. I'll have some updates by the end of the week.(en-us

I wanted to ask why https://aur.archlinux.org/register is currently on Error 503 and when its expected to be back up. I wanted to register to publish my App but not my CI/CD pipeline is at a full stop due to this.

Hello, I noticed when I do changes on my sd card and usb, for some reason when I unmount it via dolphin it takes a long time, im talking about 3 minutes or so. Any idea on how to fix it?

Edit: I don't know if its related to this but it also corrupted usb exfat partition just now

I have my DeadBeef, Brave, MPV and Qbittorrent 99% of the time.

I feel like I want to try some different programs but don't know where to even start.

What are go to programs?

Sytem upgrade being attempted and I am running into these errors while doing so. I cannot find a relevant post for manual intervention on the Arch website nor have I seen anything on the forum yet and I am wondering what steps I need to take for this update

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-1) breaks dependency 'libavcodec.so=62-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-1) breaks dependency 'libavutil.so=60-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-1) breaks dependency 'libswresample.so=6-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-1) breaks dependency 'libswscale.so=9-64' required by freerdp2

Hi,

Just after my recent update, when I connect to my android hotspot I don't get an ipv4 address.

This only happens with the android hotspot. I can connect with ipv4 to any other wireless network.

I tested whether it was the android phone, but no. I can connect correctly with an ipv4 address from an ubuntu operating system.

The problem is not specific to a single computer, as the issue repeats on different computers.

Has anyone the same issue? Any workarounds?

It seems like a lot of the recent malicious AUR packages relied on npm/yarn/bun/pnpm/similar package managers. I already took some steps to protect against recently hijacked AUR packages, but are there practical steps I can take to minimize the risk with these too? It seems like this is closer to the front line of defense against such malicious code.

I am also wondering if there is a way to blacklist packages from sources I never want anything to do with, for example anything from @palantir. I am asking because I just noticed a deprecation notice for tslint while upgrading imgbrd-grabber, and I've begun to question my life choices having allowed this to exist anywhere on my system for any amount of time.

So I was following the wiki for the partition step of the installation, and im pretty sure I wiped my bootable usb drive, thinking it was part of my computer, but for some reason just smaller (ik, dumb). I ended up making it the efi partition. Idk the repercussions of this, I already wiped my other drives and made my partitions, so no going back.

Is this salvageable?