Personally, I am not a fan of epic or multiplayer games, and will probably never play on such a spyware, but we have a good thing going on with arch and its derivatives emerging as excellent choices for gaming. However, epic may throw in a wrench, with the requirement of signed kernels and secure boot for easy anti-cheat, and derail the good thing going on.

So do you think arch will ever provide signed kernels or secure boot? What limitations, besides ideological ones, are there?

I am new on arch and installed MATE today, the wifi icon is missing, what to do?

Machine: ThinkPad E14 gen 2, 16 gb ram, 512 gb Iris Xe graphics

Tried running wuthering waves, it ran but very laggy, and laptop chassis became hot, although cpu temp was around 70-75°C .

I switched from Windows to mint maybe 3 weeks ago, butstill thought it was sort of bloated for me (never use "App store"-type programs for example). Switched to Arch yesterday (im still dualbooting rn to migrate my data but otherwise yes).

now i can officially say "i use arch btw" :D

hello! ive used windows my entire life, tried windows11 and it was trash so i switched back to windows 10, it was like less trash but still trash, and bassicly just advertising software, so i modified it using a handful of different softwares, even intentinally bricked a couple system files by hand, but it still wasnt enough, so i said screw it im going linux,

i tried cachyos first, used it for one entire day, and decided "hell, why not go arch, theres plenty of informationt online for me to learn about it" and ive now used arch for two days and i fricken LOVE it, im using kde de

(ive already broke my lockscreen but fixed it somehow)

(and fixed like 10 other problems)

(and i have like 30 different external softwares installed)

(i have absolutly no idea what im doing)\

HELLO ARCH

Hi everyone!

I've always wanted to install Arch Linux on my PC, but I've always been discouraged by having to do everything through the terminal since I don't understand it very well.

I would like to install Arch Linux in dual-boot with Windows, and I'm looking for a simple, up-to-date tutorial or guide, suitable even for someone who isn't a distro veteran.

Because of this, is there an easier method to install Arch in dual-boot with Windows without causing problems?

I have ultra core 7 255H

32GB LPDDR5X ram

My booting times are 5 mins on average

Keeps freezing

Apps struggle to run

First time linux user here

Using grub for windows 11 and ArchLinux dualbooting

What the title says. I was just thinking about the similarities between the Chaotic AUR and the nixpkgs Nix repository, and they are much more similar than people realize. Both are pretty open to contributions by pretty much anyone without an entry barrier, but they require verification by a trusted user to be accepted. Most of the praise people give nixpkgs due to its large ecosystem size can also be attributed to chaotic-aur, although it's not as big as nixpkgs, it's still quite big.

So yeah, that's pretty much it, just a random thought that chaotic-aur is really under appreciated, and I think more people should check them out, especially those worried by the "AUR scares" and that think there's no real Arch alternative to it besides accepting the risks yourself.

Thank you, chaotic-aur maintainers!

I'm currently trying to install Arch on a old laptop, I've done it before and assumed it would be fairly easy however I'm having issues with partitioning disks. Lsblk will show me sda which is the USB stick and nvme0n1 which only sometimes contains partitions already otherwise it shows 0 bytes. Even though it says nvme0n1 exists when I try to use fdisk/cfdisk it says cannot open invalid argument or no such file or directory. I'm unsure on what I can do to fix this as every solution I search for doesn't work. Maybe this is just a misunderstanding of it or something

Hi all. Anthropic ships Claude Desktop for Linux as a .deb, and I wanted it on Arch without repackaging it. So I wrote a small installer and figured it might be useful to someone else too.

What it does:

• Downloads the latest official .deb from downloads.claude.ai and installs it into ~/Apps/claude-desktop, rootless and self-contained.
• Verifies it against Anthropic's own repo signing key, which is pinned in the script. It checks the full chain (signed InRelease, then the Packages hash, then the .deb hash) and stops before installing if anything doesn't match.
• Sets up the menu entry, a claude-desktop command, icons and the claude:// handler.
• Gets Cowork (the QEMU micro-VM feature) working on Arch: it installs qemu-system-x86 and edk2-ovmf if missing and adds two compatibility symlinks. That's the only part that uses sudo, and only when something is missing.
• Works on x86_64 and aarch64, and supports parallel installs (handy for a beta).

The AUR packages are a great option, and if you already use an AUR helper they may suit you better. This just covers a slightly different niche: home-folder install, straight from Anthropic's signed repo.

It's a curl | bash one-liner, but please read install.sh first. It's short and commented, and the README shows how to check the pinned key yourself with gpg --show-keys.

Repo: https://github.com/vcostin/claude-desktop-archinstall

Full disclosure: I built this with a lot of help from AI (Claude), and I wanted to be upfront about that. Unofficial, not affiliated with Anthropic. Feedback and issues are welcome.

Occasionally I need to copy big files to relatively slow USB sticks.

(Usually ISO images to my pendrive with Ventoy to install an OS somewhere or run a rescue mission. BTW if you are still using stuff like Rufus or dd for that purpose, check out Ventoy, it's awesome)

And for a long time, a pet peeve of mine was that the big file was copied "instantly", but then unmounting that pendrive took forever with no progress bar. I'd much rather have a real progress bar that shows how fast the stick actually writes.

After some research, I learned that Linux happily lets gigabytes of dirty data pile up in RAM before it starts throttling the program doing the writing. So the file manager thinks the copy is done when really it’s just sitting in memory, and unmount has to flush all of it. So I made a udev rule that sets a 16 MB limit on dirty cache for USB disks:

# /etc/udev/rules.d/90-usb-dirty-limit.rules
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="disk", ENV{ID_BUS}=="usb", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 1 > /sys/class/bdi/%M:%m/strict_limit; echo 16777216 > /sys/class/bdi/%M:%m/max_bytes'"

16 MB of dirty cache should be plenty for most pendrives (and it's the limit of data the OS will "pretend" to have instantly copied). If you regularly use a fast USB SSD you might want a bigger number there like 128 MB, since a tiny buffer can cost some throughput on really fast drives.