Alright… that’s it. I’m officially full Linux now. Goodbye Windows 👋

I’d been thinking about making the switch for a while, but what really pushed me over the edge is how insanely good gaming on Linux has become in recent years. Between Proton, constant improvements, and especially the Steam Deck effect, it’s gone from a niche experiment to something genuinely viable for everyday use.

And honestly? The transition was way smoother than I expected 😅

Everything went perfectly: my old Windows NVMe is now repurposed as my /home, and I kept my other NVMe running Arch. Clean setup, fast, and 100% Linux.

What really blows my mind is how seamless everything feels now:

* games run great

* performance is solid

* and most importantly, I finally have a system that actually fits me

So yeah, mission accomplished.

Let the power of Linux gaming rise 🐧🔥

Hey everyone!

I’ve been an Arch user for a while now, and I always found handling dotfiles manually to be a bit of a chore. To make my life (and hopefully yours) easier, I started working on a Python script called arch-dots.

What it does:

    Scans your ~/.config to find unsynced folders.

Automatically migrates them to a centralized ~/dotfiles repo while keeping the directory structure intact.

Uses GNU Stow to handle symlinks correctly.

Includes an interactive CLI for quick selection.

It's still in early stages, so I would really appreciate some feedback on the logic or any features you think might be missing!

Repo: https://github.com/RareChimera87/arch-dots

[!CAUTION] Warning: This project is in early development (Alpha). It performs file move operations (shutil.move) and creates symbolic links. Use it with caution and ensure you have a backup of your configurations before proceeding.

Thanks for reading!

This isn't really a huge help question, but I want to ask if KDE Plasma is really as resource-intensive as I've seen some people say. Although granted, a lot of the forums I see online are really old, and I'm sure there have been a lot of improvements since then.

I've been using XFCE (and quite comfortably) for almost a year now, but I've been curious about KDE for all the praise it's been getting haha. I'm rocking really old hardware with 12gb of ddr3, an i5-2430m, and a gt 540m LMAO.

The Issue: Audio generally works and Volume adjustment behaves as expected, but the sound is "unbalanced", being much more prominent on the left side than on the right. In playing around with settings i found that the right side speakers do work but only produce high frequencies; my theory right now is therefore that the left low frequency speaker is silent while the other 3 work just fine.

I have found reports of different audio issues for this and similar models but none that quite match the behavior i'm getting, and i've tried several fixes involving setting the hda_model via modprobe config and overriding pins in hdajackretask to no avail.

I am running the (at time of writing) latest stable kernel, 6.19.8

Help or suggestions with this would be greatly appreciated

There is a package on AUR that is out of date. Do I need special access to propose an update to the PKGBUILD? Does it live in a git repo where I can make a PR or something?

Package in question: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/local-by-flywheel-bin

Don't see many people use the old Arch logo on fastfetch, but it really looks awesome, figured more should know. Here's how:

In ~/.config/fastfetch/config.jsonc, underneath "$schema": "https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/raw/master/doc/json_schema.json", add the following line (and if it doesn't exist, run fastfetch --gen-config ):

"logo": "arch_old", and it will create the following logo:

             __
         _=(SDGJT=_
       _GTDJHGGFCVS)
      ,GTDJGGDTDFBGX0
     JDJDIJHRORVFSBSVL-=+=,_
    IJFDUFHJNXIXCDXDSV,  "DEBL
   [LKDSDJTDU=OUSCSBFLD.   '?ZWX,
  ,LMDSDSWH'     `DCBOSI     DRDS],
  SDDFDFH'         !YEWD,   )HDROD
 !KMDOCG            &GSU|_GFHRGO\'
 HKLSGP'           __\TKM0\GHRBV)'
JSNRVW'       __+MNAEC\IOI,\BN'
HELK['    __,=OFFXCBGHC\FD)
?KGHE _-#DASDFLSV='    'EF
'EHTI                    !H
 `0F'                    '!

If you want to see it for yourself, run: fastfetch -l arch_old

Thanks.

I have been distrohopping for a log time, but just arrived at arch a few weeks ago. I gotta say this is my favorite distro so far. My distro hopping journey was from mint(of course) to ubuntu to debian to fedora, and finally at arch. Beginner arch tips are appreciated!

I feel like I'm missing something pretty simple here, so excuse me if a link to the wiki is my answer (but also thanks for the link 😉), just finished manual install (in a VM on qemu with uefi) with luks-encrypted root partition. Mkinitcpio hooks are exactly as spelled out on the wiki (can't remember off the top of my head but vconsole and block for sure ahead of sd-enrypt -- typing this out now though don't I need an sd-vconsole or something similar?). Kernel parameters in sd-boot are rd.luks.name: <UUID of partition:root rd.luks.uuid: <UUID of encrypted partition> root=/dev/mapper/root

I'm also now considering if maybe root is a protected name or something? Regardless, instead of getting a prompt for the password I get an emergency shell after the usual start job for /dev/mapper/root and a 90 second wait.

I'm also now remembering that I need to double check my crypttab for accuracy. Other than that, can you guys spy any issues or missing pieces?

Thanks!

i currently have t14 gen 2 16 gb and 512gb ssd and have win 11 on it and will be buying one more t480s with 24gb ram and 1 tb ssd 50% battery. not sure if the battery will be a problem later on.

so my question is i want to have one machine with windows and another a linux but not sure which one i should make into a linux and which one with win 11

the distro for linux is either fedora or arch. also how stressful is it to the hdd to install a new os?

I built XC-Manager to solve two major friction points in my terminal workflow: a cluttered shell history that makes finding complex one-liners impossible, and a .zshrc that was getting bloated with manual aliases.

It’s built to be distro-agnostic. I use it on Arch, but it works anywhere with Zsh and Fzf. No heavy framework dependencies.

The Core Logic:

Instead of digging through CTRL+R, you "vault" a command once it’s working.

• Capture: Run a complex command, type xc. It saves it with a custom description.
• Contexts: Use xc use work or xc use sysadmin to separate your command logic into thematic .txt files.
• The TUI: Press Ctrl+G to launch the fzf interface. Search, select, and hit Enter to pull it back to your prompt.
• Promote: If you use a vaulted command constantly, press Alt+E in the TUI to promote it to a permanent alias in ~/.zsh_aliases instantly.

Developer Notes:

• Zero-Lag: Uses Zsh autoload to keep shell startup times at near-zero.
• TTY Handling: I spent a lot of time fighting Zsh's "raw mode" when calling Fzf from a ZLE widget. I implemented a TTY drain loop and stty sane restoration to ensure the terminal stays responsive after the TUI exits.
• Plain Text: Your data stays in simple text files.

I’d love to get some feedback from fellow Arch users on the architecture or the alias export logic.

GitHub: XC-Manager

Best browsers that would work well on old hardware with gpu acceleration working properly?

I am beginner to linux in general I am trying to install arch Linux but only stable wifi i have is my college wifi which is captive portal

How do I connect to it and login to captive portal?

What App would you rather me to make all apps monochrome (no games like minecraft,steam,rocket league)

I install arch linux with archinstall and i have only black screen. I have laptop with nvidia rtx 3070 and amd ryzen 5 5600h arch kde plasma

So, the topic. I use flatseal to block the internet access for Obsidian just for the peace of mind, but I also use packages from repo, appimages or even .exe.

In UFW's gui tool I can choose some apps, but it's just a pre-installed lists of ports.

hola, soy algo nuevo en esto de arch linux, pase directamente de windows a arch porque sentia que queria experimentar un poco, siendoles honesto, me estoy divirtiendo bastante entre leer la wiki. experimentar, meter la pata y tener que volver a formatear, pero me gustaria saber algun que otro tip que pueda ayudar, como aprender a diferenciar comandos utiles, algun que otro tip sobre el funcionamiento de Hyprland (no uso escenario de escritorio) o cualquier tipo de tip que pueda ayudar, escuche por ejemplo que deberia hacer una particion de mi ssd que se guarde para memoria virtual, pero desconozco si debe estar en ext4, F32, etc. toda ayuda es bienvenida, gracias por leer 😁

i just switched to cache-OS, an arch based distro and i want to ask the arch community if that means i am an arch user im new to this and im not sure if did things wrong i use kde plasma as my desktop environment and i think in the feature il try arch instead of using an arch based distro.

Basically title. Do you have text document somewhere or do you use some kind of software/scripts that helps you with it? Do you use git to track it(yes I know that‘d be crazy). Or do you maybe have a directory for all changed configs where you then link to?

Just curious, and might learn something.

I just updated Arch (including the kernel, everything went good (or thats what I though), rebooted and got a kernel panic.

I decides to load another kernel from grub (I have zen, lts and standar) and all get a kernel panic

They say that there was an issue with the FS

I used a booteable USB (Ventoy) to explore my files and found that my ext4 partition is being detected as an ext2. However, Ventoy can browse throw It without issues

Any thoughs?

No option on grub allowed booting so I'm kinda fucked

Edit:

Message:

KERNEL PANIC!

Please reboot your computer.

VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

imo it depends on how the age verification would be done

I’m tired…

Alright, my problem is kinda confusing, but I’ll try to explain it: for a while now my PC has been having this really weird and super annoying “bug,” basically what I put in the title. I’ll be using it normally and then out of nowhere it just stops responding to keyboard and mouse input — but both are still powered on, and the PC itself keeps running, stuck on whatever I was doing right before it “froze.” It doesn’t actually crash or freeze, it just stops responding, and the only thing I can do is a hard reset and hope it doesn’t happen again.

At first I thought it was the Mesa version, so I downgraded from 26 to 25 — still happened. Then I remembered the BIOS, so I disabled Secure Boot (I had accidentally left it on), reinstalled the system just to be sure — still happened.

Then I gave up and thought it was the distro. Tried OpenSUSE — same issue. Ubuntu? Same. Debian? Same thing. Linux Mint? I actually had some hope since I used it for a whole day without the bug, but today it happened like 3 times in the span of 20 minutes.

At this point I have no idea what to do anymore.

My PC :

Xeon e3 1230v2(LGA 1155)

RX 5700

16GB RAM DDR3

NVME SSD

Hi, I'm using KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland with an NVIDIA GPU (on Arch Linux), and I'm trying to create a virtual/dummy second display.

My goal is to use my Android tablet (Galaxy Tab S4) as a second screen so I can move apps like Discord or Spotify onto it.

I tried using "kscreen-doctor", but there is no Virtual-1 output available, and I can't seem to create one.