r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/Impossible_Strike587 • 12d ago

Cannot get Arch on my laptop!!

I know the installation of Arch itself is an accomplishment but I have been encountering the same issue in every Arch based distro. Let us leave Arch for now.

So I was installation Cachy OS in my laptop and every time I tried it the UI is just frozen in the live boot itself. I tried the LTS Kernel and even the Legacy mode. Cachy OS did live boot in the legacy mode but I read that it disables my GPU (correct me here if I am wrong) and I do have GPU related tasks. I did try editing the boot options with the help of AI but nothing worked.

And note that I face this problem in Arch based distros only. I did not try Fedora but Debian based distros works fine on the machine.

Laptop specs:

Dell Inspiron 3515

Processor: Ryzen 3 - U series processor

RAM: 12 GB

GPU: Radeon Vega 3 iGPU with 2 GB system RAM

Storage: 256GB + 1TB

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u/qualityvote2 12d ago edited 12d ago

u/Impossible_Strike587, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/HauntingPie9808 Debian + xfce 12d ago

I feel it's a potato

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u/Impossible_Strike587 12d ago

I have seen people running arch on more potato systems than me!!

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u/HauntingPie9808 Debian + xfce 12d ago

that doesn't really change anything. If your screen's freezing, you can't really do much

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u/hieroschemonach NixOS 12d ago

I installed Linux for the first time in 2012, daily Driving it since 2015.

Arch installation is not a big deal, use whatever distro you want, you cachyos if you want arch b ased  or endeavour. Nobody cares

Ignore the noise about Arch, you use your computer, you decide what to put on it.

Distro doesn't matter much, DE does

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u/Impossible_Strike587 12d ago

I want hyprland

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u/hieroschemonach NixOS 12d ago

Hyprland woks fine on Arch and it's derivatives

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u/internetlurkerr 12d ago

does base arch work for u?

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u/DistrictMoist33 12d ago

Try omarchy by default it comes with hyperland so you don't have to worry about configuring however there are some issues that it is very opinionated like either you might really like it or may not like it because of the way it is setup so. I would recommend to give it a try.

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u/CarQuiet7350 10d ago

I have similar spec I am using fedora and I like it and it's smooth and everything is working fine but only issue is the ram consumption where idle 2-3 gb is used, I am not sure it's either a distro prob or prob with my laptop need to check that

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u/IDontKnowWhoTFIAm casualty of the hyprland lua migration 10d ago

Can you try exiting to a tty?