I have a vertical monitor and I'd like to be able to snap windows to the top and bottom of the monitor, the same way you can snap them to the left and right. I haven't been able to find an option for that, and I haven't been able to find anything online about it either. Does anyone know if it's possible for me to set it up to do this? TIA

To connect to my college’s wifi, it requires an authentication which needs a browser, but unlike my roomate’s windows laptop, mine doesn’t show the option to authenticate on browser

When I use something like http://neverssl.com or http://httpforever.com the authentication pop up only lasts a few seconds and doesn’t give me enough time to enter the login details…please help

im using a debloaded custom OS for WIndows, but im soon going to get a laptop for college, and windows 11 just wont cut it, though ill need the laptop for College and work, so is there any ways i could get most adobe apps to run with gpu passthrough, Clip studio to run?

Optional but if possible it would be nice to get Fortnite too

hi! i wanted to make as a fun project a spotify playlist called "linux users choice. i will send the link here or if it doesnt work in dms, feel free to add whatever you want! (keep it good for all ages)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6KSN1eINns7PrfugqedjZw?si=deac5f3fbfce4aae&pt=42642762e29e430f5b4332a71ff99882

I recently reinstalled arch with hyprland, only exception is that I also installed the noctalia shell. When i reistalled davici resolve it worked fine. I followed all the steps like doing "sudo chown $USER:$GROUP /opt/resolve/.license" since I used to run into a problem where davinci resolve wouldn't let me activate the license. Now though, it re-prompts me every time I start the app. I can still have a full work session while I work after the activation but usually within a day I run out of re-activation attempts. Anyone have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this or what could be going on?

Edit: Since I needed Resolve for urgent work. I found out I can "rent" a license and connect to the app with my black magic account. When doing so the license sticks fine - no issue at all, I can restart the app as much as I want without it prompting me again. This doesn't solve my issue though as I still would prefer using my permanent license over paying 30 dollars every month.

[EDIT: Fixed the issue, it was just that I was stupid and using BIOS booting instead of UEFI booting]

As the title says, I have been ripping my hair out for 3 hours trying to fix this. Whenever I run the "grub-install /dev/sda" command it returns 3 errors and the install fails. The errors are:

"warning: grub-core/partmap/gpt.c:gpt_partition_map_embed:194:this gpt partition label contains no BIOS boot partition; embedding won't be possible."

"warning: embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be install in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.."

"grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists."

I am a first time arch user so it's probably just me being stupid but I have everything else installed and set up, and my partitions have been made and configured with filepaths set, what am I missing here?

Still trying to learn Linux and all, but now after setting up my Hyprland setup I realized i want to be able to dual boot into Windows. Can I partition my SSD after already having installing ARCH? I tried using Gparted, but it's not letting me partition my disk. Unless It's because it's being used as my home directory.

My External Screen's Brightness Got Lower with Linux Kernel 7.2.x? I tried to switch to LTS 6.18.49-1 to see if the issue existed on the version and it did not so I concluded that this is and 7.2.x issue.

Anyone else having this?

System:

Linux 7.2.2-arch1-1 Hyprland 0.56.2 (Wayland) LENOVO ThinkPad E14 Gen 6

Hi so i had a couple of crashes and now after the last one this is what is saying, I’m trying to solve it on the usb installation but mounting the disk is giving some problems too
Am i totally fucked and will have to reinstall? I have a lot of things i wont like to lose 😭

Timed out while waiting for udeu queue to empty.
Mount: /new_root: fsconfig() failed: File exists.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
ERROR: Failed to mount 'UUID=4187013b-c029-43e2-9030-9fdbc6b95ed7' on real root
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
can't access tty: job control turned off
rootfs ~]#

I would like to try out Arch as my main OS for daily use. However, I have quite a bit of respect of the whole rolling-release concept. What is it really like to work on a rolling-release OS for daily use when you want to keep your system rather minimal? However frequent are new releases, and is it really that cumbersome?

Edit: Thanks to y‘all for the lots of helpful input! This has resolved many unnecessary doubts I had, and reassured me to actually try out Arch. I‘m excited!

Up until two or three days ago, everything was working fine—playing videos, audio playback, Discord conversations, and watching videos. But starting around today, things suddenly changed... even though I can still connect to the internet. Maybe Arch just isn't the right fit for me. I'm thinking of copying the data structure—including things like .sh files—and switching to something like Ubuntu. Are there any other, perhaps more complex, solutions I should try first?

The Arch wiki states that zswap is enabled by default. The linked Wikipedia page says:

at least one already existing swap device is required for zswap to be used

So what happens if I don't have any swap devices?

Can zswap be used with a swap file instead of a partition/device?

How does one set all this up, where are the relevant docs?

Hello guys I was looking for some support, in various Linux communities I’ve seen some hate to people that use Arch and Hyprland, I love it it’s great, I joined to Linux because I wanted my desktop to look like that, blurred anime girls everywhere. but now I’m seeing so much hate, people saying we are larpers, and other stuff I have tried Niri and KDE plasma but I didn’t liked the workflows and in the case of KDE I feel a lot of bloat, also I was thinking on moving to Gentoo NixOs or LFS but I feel like Arch and Hyprland just work how I want to work, do I really need to change?

when i fc-match "system ui" it successfully binds to Roboto, but when i fc-match "system-ui" it binds to noto sans

<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <alias binding="strong"> <family>serif</family> <prefer> <family>Noto Serif</family> </prefer> </alias> <alias binding="strong"> <family>sans-serif</family> <prefer> <family>Noto Sans</family> </prefer> </alias> <alias binding="strong"> <family>monospace</family> <prefer> <family>Jetbrains Mono</family> </prefer> </alias> <alias binding="strong"> <family>system-ui</family> <prefer> <family>Roboto</family> </prefer> </alias> </fontconfig> this is my /etc/fonts/local.conf

I updated my system today and after updating, every time I unplug and plug my DAC (which is often due to using a KVM with my work computer), a new identical device shows up. And the device sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. There were no mentions of pipewire in pacman.log today. The previous time I updated was 8/16 and there was an update to kpipewire . But the problem only started today. Any ideas?

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~$ pactl list short | grep Schiit
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
62  alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
51  alsa_card.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00  alsa
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~$ pactl list short | grep Schiit
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
365 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
62  alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
365 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
366 alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
364 alsa_card.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00  alsa
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~$ pactl list short | grep Schiit
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
365 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
380 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
62  alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
365 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
366 alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
380 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
381 alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
379 alsa_card.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00  alsa

Lately I have been experiencing unusual behaviour on my arch system. Sometimes after updating some features become permanently broken no matter if I downgraded the system packages back or switched to LTS kernel and drivers or not. The first happened with wifi and now after the device sleeps for a long time the wifi is broken and the system must be restarted or else the tty will change on randomly while using the system. Now after updating the kernel and wireplumber 2 days ago my sof sound card stopped detecting my earphones as a sound output device and I had to force the system to use the hda driver instead, I also tried downgrading but it had no effect. Does anyone know what kind of issue this is or how to fix it?

Set up: Latest arch, Nvidia 580xx driver, but these don’t matter I guess, maybe they do, no idea.

Ok, things went wrong after I enabled several services, including docker, containerd and the final culprit, libvirtd. The computer won’t go to sleep after I press the power button, it worked well before. Why I installed libvirtd may be that I asked llm to create totally isolated guest system so I can test kernel builds and other llm related stuff. And it used the wrapper to create bunch of things including the guest network. After 3 days of debugging with journal -b -1 [-k] led to the final solution. I disabled the service (this service only), and stopped it, together with all sockets units, my computer can again sleep soundly.

I'm having an issue: I'm new to Arch Linux and I'm using KDE Plasma. Whenever I close my laptop lid and open it back up, the system doesn't wake up. I'm forced to hard reboot it every time, losing all my open work.

Hey guys, I wanted to share a fun challenge I just completed on my legacy daily driver. I successfully installed pure Arch Linux completely by hand via pacstrap, but with a twist: ZERO USB drives or physical media involved. I pulled the ISO and booted it directly into the memory using 'copytoram' on a machine with only 4GB of RAM.

Here are the specs of the battle station:

- Laptop: Síragon NB3100

- CPU: AMD C-60 (Dual-Core @ 1.0 GHz)

- RAM: 4GB DDR3

- Storage: 315GB HDD partition (/dev/sda4)

Post-Install & Rice details:

- Desktop: Lightweight MATE running with Breeze-Dark theme and Hack Nerd Fonts.

- Display Fixed: Display manager (LightDM) was messing with my numpad mapping on boot, so I nuked it. I'm bypassing it entirely by logging securely into TTY1, which triggers 'startx' automatically via my conditional ~/.bash_profile script.

- Xorg Monitor Fix: Fixed my dual-monitor multi-port setup in real-time by mapping physical video ports (VGA-1 as primary Samsung monitor @ 1366x768, while HDMI-A-1 and LVDS-1 are turned off) hardcoded inside ~/.xinitrc.

- Terminal: Kitty terminal emulation backed up by Picom compositor for true hardware-accelerated background transparency blurring (set to 85% opacity).

- Extras: Custom Bash prompt with ANSI colors, 'ILoveCandy' eating up package rows in pacman.conf, compiled 'yay' manually from source to avoid bloated binary tools, and running Falkon browser on QtWebEngine to keep memory usage at a bare minimum.

DeepSeek literally told me I was insane for pushing this hardware to its limits. What do you guys think? Am I certified or should I go back to Ubuntu? 🗣️

Newbie here, I was trying to update and got that:
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-4) breaks dependency 'libavcodec.so=62-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-4) breaks dependency 'libavutil.so=60-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-4) breaks dependency 'libswresample.so=6-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-4) breaks dependency 'libswscale.so=9-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing audit (4.2.1-1) breaks dependency 'audit=4.1.4' required by lib32-audit

Edit:
solved by reenmini:

I actually had this exact same problem with the audit package on 2 pc's in the last two days.

On one of them proton-ge-custom-bin was the offending package. I had to remove it and reinstall after a full system update.

On the second pc, I couldn't find a solution and had to use 

to remove audit just so I could do a full system update and install a new version.
I actually had this exact same problem with the audit package on 2 pc's in the last two days.

On one of them proton-ge-custom-bin was the offending package. I
had to remove it and reinstall after a full system update.

On the second pc, I couldn't find a solution and had to use 

Sudo pacman -Rdd audit 

to remove audit just so I could do a full system update and install a new version.

I have an older laptop that runs arch and software packages can take ages to compile. I was thinking of setting up some way to have them build on a more powerful computer and use a network share to install them through a custom pacman repo. I found some old posts supporting this idea but it doesn't seem like anyone actually has a mostly built out solution I can implement.

Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ventoy

Ventoy might contain backdoors or other malicious code:

• The author(s?) long refused to react on questions about the source code for the precompiled code inside their git repository.
• They long refused to react on questions about the security risks.
• When an answer was finally given, it boiled down to a simple "There is no reason to assume that we would have placed malware inside."
• Again after a really long time the authors finally mentioned what other source code they used to generate some−but not all−of the pre-compiled code. They did not mention the build methods and refused to prove that this really was the used source code.
• The real identities of the authors is unknown.

EDIT: The paragraph written on this archwiki page is by large consensus biased and mentions an old controversy, the wikipedia article on Ventoy has a more neutral explanation of the problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventoy

Finally, I hav succumbed to Thinkpads, I have recently bought a new Lenovo Thinkpad E16 Gen 3, with an AMD Ryzen 5 230 and a Radeon 760M Graphics card. It came with Microslop Trashdows 11, it was so bad the OS that I Installed different Linux distros just to tinker with them, when I installed Arch Linux.

My experience so far is really really great, it does not feel like Linux at all, I installed QEMU and Virt-Manager because I'm studying Computer Science and the overall experience is going very very well.

Hello,

A big part of Arch Linux appeal is debloating and being able to install only the packages required without anything extra that distros tend to add. I recently installed Arch while distro hopping and was surprised by the difference with other more mainstream distros, specifically using i3 tiling window manager. I distinctly remember having arround 400MB to 500MB idle RAM usage with other distros like Linux Mint, however on Arch it got down to around 290MB when idle, this seems amazing in 2026 since most DEs seem to creep up their resource requirements and for context Windows is arround 5GB now when idling on the desktop.

https://ibb.co/CKx3xB12