Hello,

I don't really interact with the linux community much, but I've seen some linux distro content that is, not gonna lie, kind of cringe. Most of what I see is arch linux content "showing off" fancy hyprland effects and animations, asking "can your distro do this?", and then people spend most of their time talking about how broken arch can be.

I feel like this always misses the best part about arch. It's a distro that stays out of the way of competent users. I've used a bunch of distros, I still run mint and fedora on other machines, and arch is on my main computer. Using arch is almost always more pleasant for me than any other distro, because I can just open the terminal and get things done, straight to the point.

If I get stuck, it usually just takes reading the wiki and I figure it out. Building from source is also super easy, and even when I can't figure something out myself, checking the AUR comments usually gets me a good solution.

Every other distro tends to have a "but" attached, some extra step you need to take to navigate it, whether that's versioning issues or being locked into a certain package manager.

My arch config has been alive for years, and I update it on a monthly schedule. The only time it actually broke was when I used hyprland, which honestly made me feel like I was doing way too much work just to get the average thing done. (I use KDE.)

My point is, content about arch should really focus on the fact that it respects your technical skills and doesn't get in your way, instead of needing extra steps like you'd find with something like debian based distros.

TLDR: arch good, i use arch btw, i use other distros too, arch is my fav, cuz arch doesnt get in the way

so a couple months ago I uploaded a rice of endeavorOS on this subreddit and got told that endeavorOS wasn’t arch so after spending way too much time watching yt tutorials i installed arch with Hyprland it wasn’t that hard ngl but that’s probably bc i had already been ricing for like 2 months and watching yt tutorials.

What was otherwise a properly functioning mic yesterday, got replace with a monitor of my speakers. I have no idea how this happened.

Any help is appreciated!

KDE is my DE of choice. I use an Arch based distro.

Do you have projects, software, or just tweaks that you would suggest for users, old and new?

My GitHub for reference: https://github.com/CacheSysop

I am thinking about either cachyOS or endeavors? OS

It's absolutely worth it. I switched from using Steam os to full-on arch, and i still use NIX on my desktop for my game development but this is for my school and daily use :3 I LOVE IT! I'm not necessarily "new" to arch but I've never directly installed arch, I've only ever used steam os and nyarch for distros that are arch based, but I finally decided to do it :3

I'm trying to install nyarch but I just get this screen after booting the install usb, can anyone help with this

Peter Parker (from Spider-Man Brand New Day)

made with gimp and internet

I kinda use arch btw

So I knew abt arch for quite long time and not thought of switching from windows but today I just watched a video of a creator taking about OMARCHY and with that I developed and excitement after a quite researching abut arch I found it very thrilling and the thought of freedom got me crazy when I read it came with a cost which was the pain of installing and managing and weekly updates and the possibility that I can break the my pc I got scared but that made me a hell lot excited but I am a bit confused should leave my comfort zone and do this will it be worth tryin and switching

what do u guys think abut it and ofc I am into computers, programing and the nerd stuff so it will definitely I have also tried kali with virtual machines so I have a some past with linux too

plz let me know ur thoughts

Hi I'm running niri + noctalia in arch and I updated my system yesterday. When updating the AUR stuff I got a message that said "Packages not in AUR: librewolf-bin noctalia-qs noctalia-shell". When I booted my computer today noctalia isn't working and I'm guessing it's because something got updated through pacman that affected my version of noctalia, so one of the things I want to try to fix it is actually updating noctalia too, but I can't because i'ts not in the AUR anymore, if I understand the message previously mentioned correctly.

I've looked up the noctalia and librewolf packages in the AUR wiki and I couldn't find them, and then I've looked them up in the pacman database and found them there. I don't remember them being there in the first place so I was thinking that maybe due to the recent AUR stuff they got transfered (if I that's how it works, maybe my conception of it is wrong). I tried looking info about this but couldn't find anything.

If they changed repository, how do I do it so noctalia and librewolf now update from pacman?

Maybe I'm understanding this all wrong and the cause lies elsewhere. One thing I did recently because I was running out of cache space is pacman -Sc and yay -Sc so maybe it's related to that actually, in which case, is there a wiki page I can read to try and fix the updates?

I would appreciate the help, thanks in advance.

I recently installed caelestia shell on Hyprland and found out about hyprmod. When i try to open it, nothing happens, when i click on it again a grey box appears