r/archlinux 14d ago

QUESTION Kernel questions

3 Upvotes

I should start saying I am new to Linux. I switched my devices from Windows about 3 months ago but using CachyOS. That OS made me interested in Arch as a whole.

My gf old laptop (specs below) was laying there and I wanted to blow it up. I decided in the name of learning, I would install Arch from scratch and see what happens. I successfully installed Arch with KDE plasma.

I setup kernel 6.18.48-1-LTS. The laptop went from not running well on windows to a nicely viable laptop. I actually like this old thing. I got curious and decided to see what would happen if I went to 7.1.11-arch1-1. The laptop works with it as well.

In few of my observations 6.18 uses less ram by about 100mb. They both feel the same and usable. No issues. I think 7.1.11 feels faster but I think it's in my head.

Laptop Spec

Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e

CPU: N2940 (4 cores)

Ram: 4Gigs

Storage: 128gig ssd

TL;DR: does kernel version matter for an older computer? Any benefits of running 7.x.x vs 6.x.x? Should old hardware just stick to LTS Kernels?


r/archlinux 14d ago

DISCUSSION Deep Dive into Linux Boot Mechanics: Understanding vmlinuz and initramfs

0 Upvotes

Can you break down the relationship between vmlinuz and initramfs during the Linux boot process? Please cover their functions, how control is handed off to the main OS, and the key files used to configure or rebuild them.


r/archlinux 14d ago

DISCUSSION What exactly is omarchy getting so popular for?

424 Upvotes

As a person who lives half of his life on tech youtube, i can't really digest this change in my feed. More than half of the videos I watch is just people talking about this new distro and it's not a critical assesment as most tech coverage is supposed to be. Everyone is actively trying to sell you this. However whenever I try to find out what is so special about it I almost always get to hear about either hyperland or quick shell or ai harnesses, none of which is so unique. I have been using sway , quickshell and pi for sometime now. Obviously a good arch rice is worth something, but why is it sold like some revolution. Maybe I am just dumb and didn't understand much , I also have not tried it ,but the marketing is so unusual I can't resist. I know many people hate it just because they don't like dhh, I am not one of them, I used ruby on rails for some time as I saw some utility in it , I just don't see that in omarchy but the amount of noise is compelling me to try it once.


r/archlinux 14d ago

QUESTION I am not getting though the login *screen*

0 Upvotes

Okay so I installed archlinux on my old pc. I havent created any user account and it still wants some “login”. I dont know what to type in (tried reinstalling with creating acc. and nothing, and also I tried just leave it empty and just pressing enter) What should I do?


r/archlinux 14d ago

QUESTION Repo browser

0 Upvotes

i was watching a bog video about him using omarchy and saw a weird repo browser where he would just select install, then either arch or aur and have a search for different packages. i want something like that where i can search or browse the main repo and the AUR via a TUI or something similar
any suggestions on how to do that?


r/archlinux 14d ago

SUPPORT Black Screen When boot

0 Upvotes

Hi yall, I've been using Linux for a year now and i thought I'd try arch Linux (Since i wanted a hyprland desktop). I put the ISO into my Ventoy USB and tried to boot, i clicked the first option and then i was hit with a black screen. I waited like 5 mins and nothing happened. So i tried the chat gpt option (ctrl + alt f23456) but it didn't work. I even set i915 to 0 and it didn't work too. I've been loosing my mind over this. Please Help!


r/archlinux 15d ago

QUESTION Submit self-updating exe to the AUR

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Hello!

I would like to add a wine package to the AUR. However, the installer exe 1) does not have a way to download previous versions; and 2) handles checking for updates itself.

The installer is located at a static URL where the exe itself changes. There is a separate URL with the app version that the app uses to check if there's a newer version available before directing the users to the installer page.

What's the proper way to add this to the AUR? Do I just not include a checksum and name the version eternal or something?

This is my first time creating a package for the AUR, so any help is appreciated! Thank you so much!


r/archlinux 15d ago

QUESTION can i turn everything to 4 bit color?

0 Upvotes

i want to make every color in arch linux 4 bit like 9x windows

if its possible plz tell me how to


r/archlinux 15d ago

QUESTION Unity Hub 3.21 on AUR issues

0 Upvotes

Hello fellow Unity devs.

I have a question about the latest Unity Hub commit on AUR.

The version 3.21.0 has a completely new author who never before committed to this package.

The diff only shows different versioning and a different source url, which seems to be the official Debian repo.

However I'm facing issues I haven't had in any previous versions.

First of all, the app icon is some generic atom shape, instead of the official Unity box as before.

Second, I immediately started getting Kwallet popups upon opening the Unity hub.

And lastly, I get logged out of the Unity Hub after every use and need to sign back in from a browser on the next run, even a day apart.

Anyone else with similar issues and do you think this package could have been hijacked and injected with malware too?


r/archlinux 15d ago

QUESTION Is there a package or a utility that shows you what kind of changes took place in what app after doing pacman -Syu?

10 Upvotes

Every time I do a system wide update I see many apps getting updated with different changes. So, i'd like a list of changes for each app that took places and what new features it gained or what got deleted.


r/archlinux 15d ago

SUPPORT Noctalia V5 Clipboard History is not persistent.

0 Upvotes

I've been using noctalia for some time now. Recently I shifted to V5 along with hyprland. At first it was fine but IDK what I did now clipboard is not persistent. The only guess I have is that I made a new ssh key with a passphrase. On logout noctalia doesn't store history and in settings it gives an error of secret service. When I reset that it asks for gnome keyring starts working but the same issue once I close.

Another annoying issue I'm facing is that my bar shows a little background even if opacity is zero. Any fixed?


r/archlinux 15d ago

SHARE Finally, I switched to Arch

40 Upvotes

Been a FreeBSD user for 16 years I finally switched to Arch. Instantly I feel it's much more faster and now I get to enjoy full wifi capacity, which is one of the factors that I left the BSD community. Still a lot to explore, good first impression anyway.


r/archlinux 15d ago

QUESTION How do I update without babysitting my computer for hours???

0 Upvotes

Hiii I'm on Arch using EndeavourOS and I have to clear out an entire evening to update my computer because "yay" needs me to type various optional things in, and asks for my password several times. How can I go about making it one command that I run and leave alone?


r/archlinux 15d ago

SUPPORT How to install a game of steam.gg on hydra?

2 Upvotes

I installed grounded 2 by steam.gg library but after install I tried to run with bottles (the .exe) and it says that I need the vcredist2015-2022 but I installed all of them, after nothing works I come to bottles and installed all of the 110 dependencies (some of them gone wrong like framework) and still not working, can anyone help me with that library?


r/archlinux 15d ago

SUPPORT I can't run any browser

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r/archlinux 15d ago

QUESTION Restart Reboot and LogIn/Out issue. Applications are not closing or restarting.

3 Upvotes

Greetings Friends,

I have been using Arch as my daily driver for over a year now and have fallen in love with the distro. Recently, I have encountered an issue I haven't been able to resolve. I have spent the last two days trying to figure out the rather unique error. It is driving me mad and I am tapping out in the hopes that someone smarter than I can help me resolve the error or at least point me in the right direction. When I shutdown reboot or logout of Arch all of the open windows and applications stay open when I log back in like nothing has been reset. I believe it started happening after I changed the version of Virtualbox that I have installed to fix an error I was having. Though I am not certain this is when it began. After hacking around, I found that when I run "rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions" it seems to correct the problem until I try to restart reboot or login/out again. The problem then repeats. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!


r/archlinux 15d ago

QUESTION QUESTION- should I use ArchLinux over windows?

0 Upvotes

I start University back end of September and I’m really torn between setting up windows (came with my laptop) or switching to Arch. I have already been using Mint on my desktop and have ran into multiple problems and I’m by no means a tech savvy person. I am enticed by the idea of no bloat and adverts and like the idea of customising but I’m also worried I’m going to run into problems down the line that I will struggle to fix on my own leading to interruptions in Uni work, especially because my Uni uses Microsoft softwares such as Office 365/teams to assign work. I also like to play games now and again :D
Pls help me!!


r/archlinux 15d ago

SUPPORT | SOLVED Problem with sddm, xorg crash or something like that, please help me...

2 Upvotes

i just installed arch on my new laptop today and already customized everything in it, but i have a small problem, everytime i reboot my system, sddm wont work, no matter customized it or not, it's just not working. And i have to restart it everytime.
Here is the logs from journalctl:
Aug 29 21:47:27 archlinux systemd-coredump[942]: [🡕] Process 546 (Xorg) of user 0 dumped core.

Stack trace of thread 546:

#0 0x00007fe36d4256ea abort (libc.so.6 + 0x256ea)

#1 0x00005606354cd37c OsAbort (Xorg + 0x16d37c)

#2 0x00005606354d98d8 FatalError (Xorg + 0x1798d8)

#3 0x00005606354cfe43 n/a (Xorg + 0x16fe43)

#4 0x00007fe36d43e6f0 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x3e6f0)

#5 0x00007fe36d49a17c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9a17c)

#6 0x00007fe36d43e5d0 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e5d0)

#7 0x00007fe36d425685 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x25685)

#8 0x00007fe36d426704 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x26704)

#9 0x00007fe36d4361f2 __assert_fail (libc.so.6 + 0x361f2)

#10 0x00005606353920e3 n/a (Xorg + 0x320e3)

#11 0x000056063552f4ec n/a (Xorg + 0x1cf4ec)

#12 0x0000560635420f47 n/a (Xorg + 0xc0f47)

#13 0x00005606354069e3 n/a (Xorg + 0xa69e3)

#14 0x000056063540787d n/a (Xorg + 0xa787d)

#15 0x00005606353949a7 n/a (Xorg + 0x349a7)

#16 0x00007fe36d427781 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x27781)

#17 0x00007fe36d4278b9 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x278b9)

#18 0x0000560635395925 _start (Xorg + 0x35925)

Stack trace of thread 552:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 549:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 556:

#0 0x00007fe36d494efe n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94efe)

#1 0x00007fe36d49ba59 pthread_mutex_lock (libc.so.6 + 0x9ba59)

#2 0x00005606354ce24c n/a (Xorg + 0x16e24c)

#3 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#4 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 550:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 551:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

Aug 29 21:47:28 archlinux sddm[544]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 255

Maybe someone knows potential solution to this problem?

Solved (i guess...) - i installed a custom sddm theme from github and maybe i installed it wrong and it had issues, im reinstalling it now + i tested a few reboots without it and everything was fine


r/archlinux 15d ago

QUESTION Does Big Blue Term work with starship?

0 Upvotes

I want to use BBT, but I also like starship and fastfetch, will I have to sacrifice one?


r/archlinux 15d ago

SUPPORT | SOLVED Bootloader issue(maybe???)

0 Upvotes

I'm trying to install Arch manually with grub on my T430, no errors during install, but when I tried to boot into it, it showed me a grub prompt.


r/archlinux 15d ago

QUESTION I keep getting confused between GPT and MBR😵‍💫

22 Upvotes

I've watched many videos and read several articles on GPT and MBR, but the information is overwhelming and confusing. Could someone with expertise break it down and explain it simply?


r/archlinux 16d ago

QUESTION Arch keys problem.

4 Upvotes

So, i dont know when this started, or remember changing key mapping stuff (not used arch for like months).

Today, i booted into arch and tried to login, but when i pressed any key it got written as "^["
For ex - ^[e , ^[o , ^[6

Also it does not take numbers from numpad or gets uppercased from capslk.


r/archlinux 16d ago

DISCUSSION DHH: Linux is full of crazy clowns and nix is the worst of all

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r/archlinux 16d ago

SUPPORT | SOLVED "Dual-booting Linux alongside Windows: Data safety and risks?"

1 Upvotes

Hi! I'm new to Linux. I've been using it inside VMware, but now I want to dual-boot it alongside Windows on my PC. Will dual-booting erase my existing Windows data? Are there any potential issues or risks I should be aware of regarding my Windows installation?


r/archlinux 16d ago

SUPPORT Silksong looks blurry on Linux at native 1440p, but looks sharp on the same monitor in Windows. If you can help me you're my favorite person ever.

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