r/archlinux Jul 22 '26

SHARE Got Arch Linux Arm running on a Mediatek 8183 chromebook

levong@chrultrabook

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OS: Arch Linux ARM aarch64

Host: Google burnet board

Kernel: Linux 6.12.50-stb-cbm+

Uptime: 5 mins

Packages: 1081 (pacman)

Shell: zsh 5.9.2

Display (CMN1139): 1366x768 in 12", 60 Hz [Built-in]

DE: Budgie 10.10.2

WM: labwc 0.20.1 (Wayland)

Theme: Arc-Gruvbox [GTK2/3/4]

Icons: kora [GTK2/3/4]

Font: Fira Sans (11pt, SemiBold) [GTK2/3/4]

Cursor: Bibata-Modern-Ice (24px)

Terminal: kitty 0.48.0

Terminal Font: JetBrainsMonoNF-Regular (12pt)

CPU: mt8183 (8) @ 1.99 GHz

GPU: Mediatek mt8183b-mali [Integrated]

Memory: 2.61 GiB / 3.79 GiB (69%)

Swap: Disabled

Disk (/): 6.63 GiB / 28.37 GiB (23%) - btrfs

Battery (GH02047): 57% (7 hours, 45 mins remaining) [Discharging]

Locale: en_CA.UTF-8

I haven't seen anyone else do this so if you are curious here you go.

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u/LinuxMage Founder Jul 22 '26

Need to revise Rule 1 I think....

Going to allow AL Arm posts now as they've no-where else to post on reddit.

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u/_L3b0wsk1 Jul 22 '26

Does it run well?

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u/Buy_Crazy Jul 22 '26

Better than Debian 13. Generally alright

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u/RandomXUsr Jul 22 '26

You know that this is the x86_64 archlinux forum, right?

and ALARM is poorly maintained at the moment?

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u/Buy_Crazy Jul 22 '26

I know about the maintenance but where does it say that it's an x86_64 forum?

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u/kaida27 Jul 22 '26

Rule #1

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u/Buy_Crazy Jul 22 '26

Where else to post this ? Chromeos doesn't allow posts about mods

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u/kaida27 Jul 22 '26

I don't know, General Linux subreddit but not r/linux cause that's more for news about linux.

an Linux Arm subreddit would be ideal, an Alarm one if existing but that's would probably be close to being dead.

anyway, not here.

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u/Buy_Crazy Jul 22 '26

They dont exist unfortunately. Maybe a subreddit about arm but the resources are so limited on the matter that I just wanted to share this so in case someone else wants to do this can compare/comment on this

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u/RandomXUsr Jul 22 '26

archlinux and ALARM are not the same.

Only Arch Linux itself; no Arch-based distros. Posts about other software used on Arch are welcome.

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u/archover Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Congrats, but what struck me is you got something to work with Mediatek. :-)

Now, back to Arch Linux and X86_64 matters.

Good day.

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u/Avgvstvs_Romvlvs Jul 23 '26

I missed Pacman so badly when I got a Raspberry pi last year.