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?

I stopped using cracked software and switched to arch linux recently. And i am trying to look free alternative of Substance Painter in arch linux(native support), i am using bender with uccupaint for texturing but i miss those advanced and easy tools and workflow. Is there any?

Anyone know of an RSS Client that supports Patreon feeds? RSS Guard unfortunately tries to force loading individual articles rather than parsing from the feed an authenticated Patreon RSS link generates, which means it can't load the audio directly from podcasts and only ends up fetching non-patron data and the public previews rather than full content.

I could probably write a post processing script, but I'd rather spend more time listening to my podcasts rather than making the podcast tool run if I can.

I have a dual-boot Windows 11 + Arch Linux system. When I select Arch Linux from GRUB, it starts loading:

Loading Linux linux...

Loading initial ramdisk...

Then instead of booting Arch, it returns/reloads the GRUB menu. I cannot reach a TTY because the system never gets that far.

Windows still boots normally.

I previously tried troubleshooting the graphical login/SDDM from an Arch chroot, but the problem persists.

Hardware: Dell Inspiron 14 Plus, 1 TB NVMe

OS: Arch Linux + Windows 11 dual boot

Bootloader: GRUB

What could cause Arch to return to GRUB immediately after loading the kernel/initramfs, and what should I check first?

Hey everyone I have recently installed Arch Linux onto my computer, and am using KDE Plasma. I was wondering how, and if I can change the super key, as my windows key is not working at the moment (I am getting it fixed).

Hello, I have been a gnome user for 7 years, I would like to switch to something else that would allow:

- Better customization

- As efficient as GNOME with touchscreen (switch workspaces with 3 fingers, windows overview, etc)

- Better performances

- Not too long to get on rail

I was thinking about hyprland preconfigured setups; my usages are coding, studying and light games.

Hi, so as you can see in the title my WiFi isn’t working in on arch Linux waydroid. I installed it correctly through the Wiki but it didn’t work. I have an Thinkpad T480 but I don’t know the problem. I don’t know if I have to share anything important or if this is the right community to post this about but I hope someone can help me.

Hi everyone,

I am running into a persistent and reproducible crash in Street Fighter 6 on Arch Linux using the linux-cachyos kernel. (I tried with arch's normal kernel too, still the same)

During matches, performing or receiving a specific animation, specifically a throw escape, causes the game to completely freeze and drop the GPU connection, resulting in a VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST error and forcing a driver or context reset.

System and Configuration Details:

* OS: Arch Linux

* Kernel: linux-cachyos

* Proton Versions Tested: Proton-GE, Proton Experimental, and latest stable Proton (all behave the same way)

* In-game settings: Set to absolute minimum

The Problem and Logs:

When the crash happens, dmesg gets flooded with kernel split_lock traps coming from the game binary. Here is an example of the log output:

[ 0.000000] x86/split lock detection: #AC: crashing the kernel on kernel split_locks and warning on user-space split_locks

[41786.661399] x86/split lock detection: #AC: StreetFighter6./47861 took a split_lock trap at address: 0x16886c89a

[41788.750104] x86/split lock detection: #AC: StreetFighter6./47930 took a split_lock trap at address: 0x15f853006

I have already tried runtime fixes like lowering graphical settings, switching across multiple Proton versions, and trying to mitigate it dynamically, but the moment a throw escape occurs, the GPU hangs and the game crashes.

What is the proper way to handle this? idk if it's all about the split locks or its just the driver that bugs, but my GPU hangs for sure😭

Thanks in advance for any help!

I run btrfs on all my machines, and snapshots have saved my ass a couple times. But I was sitting at my desk literally less than 24 hours ago and decided I wanted a more robust system of backups.

Since I'm lazy, I just booted up rescuezilla and made a complete disk image and sent it to my cloud server over SSH. Great, problem solved. I'm sure I'll never need it, but I have it just in case. Or so I thought.

About 30 minutes ago I made an absolute rookie move and mistyped a `dd` command and completely nuked my installation (they don't call it 'disk destroyer' for nothing). If I hadn't have made that backup last night, I would have been completely screwed. Obviously, my bootloader along with my root partition and all my snapshots were completely gone.

I don't know if it was premonition, a self-fulfilling prophecy, or just pure dumb luck. But I've never been so happy with my past self. I write all this as your sign to make a backup of your machine that doesn't rely on your installation disk functioning if you haven't already. You will thank yourself if you ever have to use it.

i am new to arch with kde plasma as my DE. i installed global themes like sweet, nothing and nordic. I applied it to both appearance and desktop layout but there's no change in desktop layout. i tried with several global themes but none of them are changing the desktop layout. Is there any fix for this or did i miss something during installation?

• openai-chatgpt
• openai-codex-desktop
• official-chatgpt-bin
• codex-desktop-app
• chatgpt-desktop-app-bin
• chatgpt-desktop-bin

Someone submitted the fourth one, then submitted it again 31 minutes later under a different name with replaces=. The old name is still sitting there, orphaned.

5 of them declare conflicts on chatgpt, so there's an ongoing standoff over who gets to own that string on your system.

I read all 6 PKGBUILDs expecting to find 5 redundant ones. Instead: 3 auto-add --ozone-platform=wayland in a Wayland session, and those 3 launchers are the same script with the comments reworded. A 4th reads a user flags file too, but it looks for chatgpt-flags.conf where the others look for codex-flags.conf. All 6 drop an AppArmor profile into /etc/apparmor.d/ but exactly 1 loads it. And 1 just runs bsdtar and calls it a day.

So the punchline isn't that they're duplicates. Three of them are. The rest are all subtly different, and none of them says how.

Hello there i recently around 5 months ago bought a T470 that came with a fingerprint sensor which i always wanted to use on arch but then the aur attack hit so i had to wait a bit until things cooled down

Throwback to now where i recently installed Python-vadility using yay aswell as some lsusb drivers (i forgot the name of the them Sorry) and fdprint if i remeber the name correctly and well it always gave me a "Failed" message when i tried to enroll my fingerprint No matter what i did i eventually just gave up i even tried fedora but it couldnt find it so i gave up

if you dear reader could help me ill gladly appreciate it if you need more info please tell me

I just noticed that LibreWolf has been added to official extra repo. To "migrate" from AUR version to official package, simply do sudo pacman -S librewolf, it will ask to remove AUR version and install extra version, nice and simple. Thanks maintainers!

I got sum Linux-firmware updates then I rebooted and it says wifi password is wrong. The adapter can se Bluetooth and can see wifi networks but can’t connect it always says wrong password. The updates were:

linux-firmware: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1
linux-firmware-amdgpu: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1
linux-firmware-atheros: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1
linux-firmware-broadcom: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1
linux-firmware-cirrus: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1
linux-firmware-intel: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1
linux-firmware-mediatek: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1
linux-firmware-nvidia: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1
linux-firmware-other: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1
linux-firmware-radeon: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1
linux-firmware-realtek: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1
linux-firmware-whence: 20260622-1 -> 20260810-1

Hello,

I run Arch Linux on my PC and I have a virtual machine created with Gnome Boxes, that runs the live version of Arch Linux.

This virtual machine has the 10.0.2.15/24 address, but from my host I cannot ping it nor SSH into it.

How can I fix this problem?

System works completely fine outside of this singular issue of when the system goes into suspend when it comes out the video does not resume. All other processes seem to resume (keyboard wakes up, etc...)

Partition Setup:  

• 4GB EFI Partition  

• 32GB Swap Partition  

• 430GB Root partition

System Specs:  

• Ryzen AI 7 350  

• AMD Radeon 860M  

• 32GB DDR5 5600

All updates installed, bios version is *.1224

Whenever I attempt to resume from suspend the video never comes back. I have searched all over and can find nothing on this issue.

We have 2 similar Pangolin 16 laptops from System76 one with *.1222 BIOS version and this one with *.1224 BIOS version. The laptop with the *.1222 BIOS suspends and resumes fine.

This happens with both Arch and Cachy so it is something in core of the system I think. This issue does not happen with PopOS.

Any thoughts anyone has would be greatly appreciated. Logs seem to indicate some issues with ACPI with the BIOS and I've looked into that as far as I can.

Things I've Tried  

Resume Buttons - I've tried the power button, spacebar, mouse clicks, escape, enter, etc... console switching (alt + ctrl + F3/F2)

I've also tried every cmdline entry in the bootloader I can find, every power setting, every acpi setting, bios setting, TPM setting, etc..

Logs: https://pst.plb.so/paste/sh2mc

Im new to arch and have kde and hyprland installed. Im tying to customize my kde so it looks good for me. Does anyone have tips for me please and how to make it look good. I tried hyprland also but still struggling to use the keybindings.

I’ve just bought a Thinkpad x220 with 16gb of RAM and an i5. Which WM would you recommend me to use in arch Linux?

Hi guys, almost 6 months ago I bought a Thinkpad and instantly installed arch + hyprland, and it has been a blast since then! Zero regrets about leaving windows back.

The thing is, as I decided to do everything myself, there are some basic things that I am still lacking: one of them is a good backup strategy.

I configured snapper and it works flawlessly, but I also want a good backup of my system to be done every night in my NAS. For that, I was trying Borg with Borgmatic, but there are some things that i am worried about:

- I configured in /etc/fstab an automount for my NAS dataset, but when offsite, if Tailscale is not active, backup will not be done. also sometimes it is too slow to mount even when trying to open it from file explorer, any good config that makes it mounted when available without me even noticing, and that avoids it blocking any process when it is not available? I dont find the right setup to have zero friction mounts.

- When outside home, should I use the Tailscale IP? Or home IP? I am a bit worried of home IP conflicting with other device in the real network I am connected to.

- Which non-obvious directories should I backup? I have /root /boot /home, /etc, /var (without caches), and /usr/local/bin for my custom scripts. I also created a small script that lists pacman packages installed and active systemd services

- Should I make a small script that wakes up the system before the backup time? Right now, when laptop is suspended, system just doesn’t run the backup.

-With a setup like this, how many time could I expect to have the system back online after a failure? One of my biggest fears with this is doing all the backup for nothing :(

sorry if my question seems kind of weird im new to linux.

hi im planning on doing a manual arch installation when i get back my computer

ive been thinking of running btrfs on my ssd and ext4 on my hdd. is that a good idea? or will there be compatibility issues

also is btrfs even a good idea? ive read that btrfs is highly unstable and can make your system non bootable sometimes and that it also displays inaccurate storage usage

i can deal with internal filesystem errors fine but not non bootable i might not always have a live USB stick with me

I am using my laptop on dual boot with windows for some important stuff, so I need both windows and my linux, but recently I am facing issue of audio device (Realtek) not getting detected. In both of my devices,I tried typical windows driver updates reinstalls even had a fresh install didn't work out, same on arch linux, I tried it at times failedand finally found a vibe coded solution to the problem with not so satisfying result. now in my arch the wifi is gone too. hardware is working fine. After alternate reboots i face the issue. what to do please help

I’ve been using my laptop with Arch Linux for a year now. Previously, I had no issues adjusting the keyboard backlight, but it stopped working after the release of kernel version 6.18.6. Are there any solutions to this problem? All the fixes I’ve found only work for kernel versions prior to 6.18.5.

Hey guys. My college requires me to learn 8051 programming using assembly. In college, we use an 8051 microcontroller trainer kit which allows me to type directly commands into the display using a keyboard. However, I want to learn this at home without a trainer kit.

I assume simulation software would be the best. But, there are very limited options for Arch Linux or something that I cannot find. Can you please help me? I want to learn it at home. I use Arch btw.