Finally settled into a clean, minimal setup

Wifi and Bluetooth battle was long and hard but I won. Arch + Niri + Noctalia and a custom Touch Bar. Thanks to the t2 contributors and community, my MacBook got its life extended.

In the process of making my own arch flavored distro I built a tool to offline install a system image while preserving a previous btrfs home and encrypting the disk, if the user want

hey guys, made this arch-chan 3d model lol (actually with AI)

i kinda wanna see her actually moving, but i have no idea how to rig/animate a character 😭

anyone here good with blender? would be cool if someone could rig her or make some animations. feel free to mess around with the model.

repo: https://github.com/k-karthikn/arch-chan

let's see what we can do with her :)
thanks to anyone who gives it a try!

Estoy nuevo todavía en Linux y decidí dejar de usar el ghome en mi sistema Linux, trate primero con hyprland pero rompí el sistema 3 veces así que desistí y pase a kde plasma, a pesar de que lo entendí y pude modificar algunas cosas creo que fue muy superficial y me gustaría aprender a hacer que se vea más profesional

I just pushed a new feature in Papyrus where it gives you links to websites to install live wallpapers from. I have thought of adding a "marketplace" for wallpapers where users can browse through different wallpapers and download from inside the app but i am not doing it now until i can make it 100% safe. It is available through the AUR as well as a manual install that can be found in the README file of the repository.

I know this isn't the Linux way. pacman in a terminal is fine, and I still use it. I just like a simple overview of what's installed, where it came from, and what's waiting to update, without running -Q and -Qu every time I forget.

So for the past two weeks I've been working on Lumina. GTK4 and libadwaita. Official repos go through pacman. The AUR goes through paru, or yay if you don't have paru.

The bit I actually cared about: before it installs, removes, or updates anything, it shows the command. You confirm it, then the output shows up in the window. I didn't want a progress bar standing in for pacman.

There's a details panel, filters for explicit, official, AUR, and orphans, a short list of common apps, and a tools page for cache and disk. That's about it.

Not on the AUR yet.

Site: https://lumina.0ls3n.dk

Code: https://github.com/0ls3n/Lumina

Screenshots are on the site if you don't want to install it. If something's annoying, say so.

So, my school uses a print server called Mobility Print. However, it doesn't use standard IPPS, and even if it did, I noticed that when you scanned for printers in the KDE settings, if there were multiple printers exposed on the same hostname/IP address, it would only show one of them. I tried finding a client, but their official setup guide says this:

Linux devices are not supported because there is no dedicated Mobility Print client.

Luckily, their Chrome extension is publicly listed on the Chrome Web Store. So I installed it, unminified it, and reverse-engineered it enough to create a Node.JS library. Once I made that, I made [yet another program that acts as a CUPS backend. Using my Node.JS library (and the CUPS documentation), I was able to make it easily interact with MobilityPrint print servers.

It currently only supports per-printer auth with username+password (Google SSO isn't supported and most likely won't ever be supported). I am learning Rust, so I do plan to rewrite this entire thing in Rust eventually.

I'm considering putting this on the AUR to make it easier to install, but yeah, that's really it lol

Freedreno and networking working. Plays 720p videos in Firefox fine.

first time using arch, spend almost two weeks (primarily fighting acer bios to install systemd) and after three wipeouts managed to install wallpaper engine

Teto uses arch by the way

ssh 👍🏻

After using Fedora Workstation with GNOME for a while, I decided to give Arch Linux a try.

Running Arch + GNOME, setting things up, and enjoying the experience so far.

Let's see how long it takes before I break something or go back to Fedora. 😂🤘

What I like with Arch Linux is that, it's in my opinion the easiest distro to custom.
Because I'm an F1 fan, I mean, a RedBull F1 fan, I made a theme for dms-shell to match my Wallpaper.

I installed Arch Linux for first time in May 2025.
After updating in June 2025, Xorg failed to start, so I immediately rolled back.
When Xorg starts, display corruption occurs, that is startup texts shifted to the right.
However Xmonad works without any issues.

1. Should I go ahead and update the system as is?
   
2. Should I resolve the errors before updating?
   
3. Should I uninstall Xorg and Xmonad before updating?
   
4. Would it be better to perform a fresh installation?
   
5. Are there any other good options ?

Arch Linux 6.14.9 arch1-1 (tty1)
xorg-server 21.1.16-1
MacbookAir2012mid(Dual Boot ArchLinux & Sonoma(OCLP) )
Intel HD Graphics 4000

Here are the issues that appear to be errors ,as identified by an Aech Linux beginner.

$ pacman -Q mesa mesa-amber xf86-video-intel
mesa-amber 21.3.9-6
mesa-amber 21.3.9-6
xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+939+gła64400e-1

$ grep -E '\(EE\)|\(WW\)' ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log

(WW) warning, (EE) error,()NI not implemented, (??) unknown.  

[ 22.565] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
[ 22.578] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[ 22.604] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[ 22.604] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

[ 22.604] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support

$ grep -E '\(EE\)|\(WW\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 9542.999] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
[ 9543.010] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directo
[ 9543.020] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/1965_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/ AIGLX error: unable to load driver failed (/usr/1ib/drl/
[ 9543.020] (EE) AIGLX error: unable to load driver i965
[ 9817.476] (EE) event8 -bcn5974: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded.

$ ls -l /dev/dri
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Oct 9 08:27 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 226, 1 Oct 9 08:27 card1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root render 226, 128 Oct 9 08:27 renderD128

$ ls -l /dev/dri/by-path
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 9 08:27 pci-0000:00:02.0-card -> ../card1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 9 08:27 pci-0000:00:02.0 render -> ../renderD128

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "DRI" “2”
# Option "TripleBuffer" "on"
# Option "SwapbufferWait" "on"
# Option "TearFree" "on"
# Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
EndSection

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/back.20-intel.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "modesetting"
EndSection