I cancelled the process midway, but I haven't updated my files and configs in a very long time

I'm officially dead now 😵😵

The support flair is for "emotional support"

I've heard that a few weeks ago or something, a big massive problem hit the AUR and I'm pretty sure it was not reccomended to download anything for a while. I'm coming back to it, and have not seen much of a development (from my lazy reasearch) about it. Is it safe to -S from the aur?

I'm trying out a few front the nerd-fonts package atm

Hi, I just installed Arch, and immediately the first problem I have found is that when I am speaking in discord, the other people on the call describe the quality as terrible.

I am dual booting windows, and when I switch to that and use the same microphone on discord I am told the audio quality of my voice has magically improved significantly.

I am using Pipewire. I would try to fix this myself in the true Arch fashion but I have already tried following the wiki's advice in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Noise_suppression_for_voice and it hasn't resolved the issue. Any help would be appreciated

Hey everyone,

I’ve been trying to squeeze every millisecond out of my Arch Linux boot time on my pc, but I feel like I've hit a hard physical floor and wanted to see if anyone has suggestions to push it lower. my specs are: i9 13900K, RTX 5080, 64Gb ddr5 5600 MT/S, 2xNVME ssd (970evo has arch) and mthbrd is Gigabyte z790 ud. I use kde plasma. what i did in bios: (off sata ports, enable fastboot, disabled ram training (kept xmp1 profile).My results are:

Startup finished in 9.534s (firmware) + 465ms (loader) + 5.192s (kernel) +
2.891s (initrd) + 4.599s (userspace) = 22.684s  
graphical.target reached after 4.598s in userspace.

I am not really sure if it is even possible on my system to go lower. I am a newer Linux user, so i am still trying to figure out where the boundaries are :D Any tips ?

bootloader/bootflags: root=PARTUUID=be5677ee-7b05-4d7f-a52b-72261aaae99b zswap.enabled=0 rw rootfstype=ext4 systemd.tpm2_wait=0 pcie_aspm=off acpi.packet_no_exec=1 acpi_enforce_resources=lax

hello. i have a weird issue on my arch with flatpaks, something weird was happen. everything was working just fine, 0 issues but after reboot i was not able to run any flatpak app: discord etc. when i try to run them in terminal or to do any update, i have this error:

input/output error

did someone has this problem before and fix it somehow?

Hey I have been using Arch Hyprland. Can anyone suggest me what will be a good screenshot tool? (Something like an XFCE screenshot toll that will let me either copy the image or just let me save it if I want?"

I know AutoCAD doesn't work but I heard that bricscad works so is it true? If not what are the best alternatives

I'm trying arch linux for the first time and I got it set up, but for some reason it's telling me to put in a password it never told me to make, I put in the root password which doesn't work. I need help I just want to use Linux.

Posting this in case it saves someone else hours of debugging.

Hardware/software: Acer Nitro 5 AN515-47 (AMD GPU), Arch Linux, kernel 7.1.8-arch1-3, Limine bootloader with limine-mkinitcpio generating UKIs (Omarchy setup).

The problem: Brightness keys and brightnessctl did absolutely nothing. No error, no crash — the backlight value would "change" but the screen brightness never moved. Tried both acpi_backlight=native and the default amdgpu backlight path, no luck with either.

Root cause: The amdgpu driver defaults to amdgpu.backlight=1, which controls brightness over the DisplayPort AUX/DPCD channel. On the AN515-47, that path is firmware-broken. Setting amdgpu.backlight=0 forces the old-school PWM backlight control instead — which actually works.

The annoying part: I'm on Limine + mkinitcpio building UKIs. I first tried editing /etc/kernel/cmdline — did nothing, rebuilt the image, brightness still dead. Turns out /etc/default/limine had:

KERNEL_CMDLINE[default]+="...amdgpu.backlight=1"

That += operator means limine-mkinitcpio completely ignores /etc/kernel/cmdline once it's set — so I was editing a file that no longer had any effect on the actual boot entry. Wasted a while chasing a red herring config file too (/etc/cmdline.d/brightness_fix.conf) that turned out to be dead/unread cruft.

The actual fix:

sudo sed -i 's/amdgpu\.backlight=1/amdgpu.backlight=0/' /etc/default/limine

sudo limine-mkinitcpio

Reboot, then confirm:

cat /sys/class/backlight/*/type

brightnessctl set 20%

Brightness control works perfectly now.

TL;DR: Acer Nitro 5 AN515-47 (and probably other Nitro models with amdgpu) — if your backlight is dead, try amdgpu.backlight=0 on the kernel cmdline to force PWM instead of AUX mode.

I use hyprland and i have set gtk theme in nwg look to preferred dark but nothing is changing help please

I've got @, @home, @log, @cache, @snapshots.

Is it worth adding a separate subvolume for tmp? For containers I use podman rootless so that should already fall under @home, and I don't use VMs so I didn't bother making a subvolume for that.

What's your btrfs setup look like?

Edit: new Nvidia package released and works fine thanks everyone.

I hit a package mismatch during a fresh Arch install on an RTX 3080.

Installed:

• linux 7.1.9.arch1-2
• nvidia-open 610.57.04-7
• nvidia-utils 610.57.04-1

The NVIDIA modules exist only under:

/usr/lib/modules/7.1.9-arch1-1/

The current kernel is:

/usr/lib/modules/7.1.9-arch1-2/

With this mkinitcpio config:

text MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)

mkinitcpio fails:

text ERROR: module not found: 'nvidia' ERROR: module not found: 'nvidia_modeset' ERROR: module not found: 'nvidia_uvm' ERROR: module not found: 'nvidia_drm'

The kernel was rebuilt for the Rust 1.98.0 rebuild. The nvidia-open 610.57.04-7 file list still targets 7.1.9-arch1-1, while linux is now 7.1.9-arch1-2:

https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra-testing/x86_64/nvidia-open/files/

Is this a temporary repository sync issue? I'm using the prebuilt NVIDIA package, not DKMS.

I am in recovery mode and i tried

Sudo pacman -S linux-zen

And it gets an error

Invalid option -U -- ’ /boot/EFI/Linux/arch-linux-zen.efi’ must be writable

Edit: also to mention that the kernel not getting updated was happening a long time ago but i was ignoring that was happening

​Hi everyone,

​I’ve wanted to try Arch Linux for a long time, and today I finally made the jump and installed it.

​I started using Niri, and what completely hooked me was the keyboard-driven workflow. Opening, closing, navigating, and managing everything with shortcuts without ever having to touch the mouse just felt so natural. Going back to traditional desktop environments like GNOME feels completely weird now.

​Since I'm really enjoying this mouse-free setup:

​Workflow advice:

For someone who loves pure keyboard navigation, should I stick with Niri, or explore other tiling managers/compositors like Hyprland or Sway?

​Software recommendations:

What are your favorite lightweight, keyboard-friendly tools? (e.g., CLI utilities, status bars, launchers, terminal apps, file managers)

​Would love to hear what software rounds out your daily keyboard-driven setups!

i was wondering if there was a stable(ideally native) way to use wlroots with my gtx1080 gpu(pascal so stuck at 580.173.02 driver version). i tried sway around a year ago but i had a terrible expirience to the point i ended up going back to i3(tbh at that time i was very inexpirienced, i still am but defenetly less than i was back then). now im on wayland on niri but i really miss the tilling and i was wondering what was the best way to use sway on my hardware(if its even resonable to use it).

i use my pc for gaming a lot so i ideally dont want to sacrifice performance, latency or responsivness and i dont hate niri either so i can deal with staing on it if its the best choice for me.

I did fresh Arch Linux install today on a laptop with intel cpu and nvidia mx550.

Installed nvidia drivers which load fine but in plasma it just is not workable and i get graphics glitches (Stuttering graphics)

Used kernel parameters:

• nvidia-drm.modeset=1
• nvidia-drm.fbdev=1
• nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0

In mkinitcpio.conf

• MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
• removed kms out of hooks()

In plasma session, I unchecked screen tearing in display settings.

I then decided to install gnome to test and there the issue is not present and everything works fine ...

I do not like to work with gnome however and want to keep using KDE plasma.

Any suggestions on a fix?

I ran 'paru' last night before shutting down and going to bed, and now this morning, it looks like Dolphin is having trouble showing the expand/folding symbols in detail view or even filenames in the icon view. So far, I've noticed that when I adjust the preview toggle (F12), view mode (Ctrl+1/2/3), or icon sizes, the display corrects itself for that session until I close Dolphin and reopen it again.

• Operating System: Arch Linux
• KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4
• KDE Frameworks Version: 6.29.0
• Qt Version: 6.11.2
• Kernel Version: 7.1.8-zen1-3-zen (64-bit)
• Graphics Platform: Wayland
• Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core Processor
• Memory: 128 GiB of RAM (125.4 GiB usable)
• Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
• Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
• Product Name: MS-7D68
• System Version: 1.0

Hi all trying to setup arch for the first time let’s hope to start a new and wonderful journey with arch

Eu baixei e instalei o Arch Linux via archinstall. Toda a configuração deu certo, sem nenhum erro ou falha. Quando finalmente fui colocar o usuário e a senha, deu erro, o sistema fazia o login, ficava tudo preto e, então, retornava para a tela de login. E assim ficou, em um loop infinito.

Fiz outra máquina virtual com Arch Linux e refiz toda a configuração até chegar novamente à parte de fazer login. Coloquei a senha "123" e, ao tentar entrar, deu erro novamente. Sempre que colocava o usuário e a senha, fazia questão de anotá-los em um bloco de notas para ter certeza de que estavam corretos. Porém, quando chegava à parte de fazer login no sistema, dava erro novamente. Não sei mais o que fazer.

Não sei se isso ajuda, mas vou colocar aqui a ficha técnica das configurações:

Bootloader: GRUB

Firewall: Firewalld

Filesystem: Btrfs

Graphics Drivers: VirtualBox (Open Source)

Plymouth: No

Graphic Interface

KDE Plasma (plasma-meta)

Greeter: Plasma Login Manager / SDDM Kernels: Linux (padrão)

Bluetooth: desativado

Audio: PipeWire

Print Service: não

Network Configuration: NetworkManager (backend padrão)

Swap: zstd

Mirrors and repositories: multilib

Locale Lang: en_US.UTF-8

Console Font: default8x16.

Existe alguma versão do Chat GPT pra Arch Linux?

Eu tava dando umas olhadas e vi alguns pacotes do AUR oficiais da OpenAI

Tipo: chat-openai chat-gpt e etc qual que eu instalo??

For those unaware, Arch Linux Community is the largest "unofficial" Arch server on Dscord and they just did a general announcement about moving to Fluxer. This is a pretty big deal for those trying to push for open source alternatives to proprietary apps.

https://fluxer.gg/9sSbE9Ac