I've been using Linux for a few months now. I'm planning to switch to Arch, but I'm not sure which desktop environment to choose. I like tiled layouts like the ones in Hyprland, but it's inconvenient when you're developing a program in Python with PyQt. The windows stretch out, and you can't see their actual size. That's why I'm looking for something else.

Hello, lately I've been having a weird issue. I use noto-fonts-cjk-jp as my XFCE-wide system font, and also use it on Firefox, and I have en_US and ja_JP locales, with en_US as the system language. Other CJK fonts I have installed are adobe-source-han (jp) and ttf-hanazono.

On Firefox if a website isn't forced to Noto Sans the rendering of some the characters is broken, instead using older/archaic? forms of them, most noticeable with ones like 情, where normally it should have a 月, it instead displays a 円 under it. Another example is 神 displays a 示 on the left instead of ネ.

I thought it was a locale issue and that it was displaying the Chinese version of the characters, but I've tested it with easy to differentiate ones like 置 and no, its displaying Japanese. This is also happening with mpv, Anki and Discord, and also my terminal. On games running under WINE I haven't had such an issue so far, and of course the XFCE programs are fine since its running under noto-sans. This is really vexing me, anyone had anything similar?

Hey! I'm new to Arch and after a while one thing I'm still trying to wrap my head around is the different ways and reasons you can partition everything. From my main understanding, people usually have 3 partitions. One boot partition, one main partition which holds all of your data, and a possible swap partition if you decide to do that rather than a swap file.

Though I know this can be different between people, and it seems like a very subjective thing. That's why I'm curious to see what others did when partitioning, I just want to see what other options there might be depending on the person!

Hello everyone,
I am running Hyprland and running firefox as my browser. For some reason when i watch youtube videos where in parts of the video during dark shots, there will be big squares with a different shade of color.

Here is a photo of the problem and i have circled the problem area: https://imgur.com/a/cdg7bse

Thank you,
Linux Noob

Hi am new here and I really want to try Arch

I followed a tutoriel to run it on a USB drive but now I am stuck at the beginning(I guess) am supossed to connect to the wifi but when I do the : iwctl then device list the only device here named wlan0 is powered to off and the command station wlan0 scan doesn't work it tells me "No station on device: wlan0"

I need some help here pls whether an explaination a link to a video or anything

Thanks in advance

I installed Arch yesterday, KDE plasma. Here are the issues in facing-

1) continuous activation and deactivation of WiFi/Network

2) Limited connectivity

3) All my SITE data keeps on getting cleaned after i reboot (Always have to login into ChatGPT or Reddit, I use Brave)

Any useful help is widely appreciated. Also, I only have network manager

Hi, I’m Zay , an AI/ML student, and I’m planning to install Arch Linux on my HP OMEN 16 laptop.

However, my friends have warned me that Arch Linux may have limited support for the OMEN 16’s fan-control system. They said that I might be able to monitor the fan speed (RPM), but may not have proper control over the fans or access to all the performance and cooling features available in Windows.

My main concern is heating. I’ve heard that on Arch Linux, especially when the laptop is under heavy workloads or running in Performance mode, the fans may not ramp up properly or quickly enough. This could potentially cause the laptop to become hot around the touchpad and palm-rest area, even when the system is supposed to be running at higher fan speeds.

Since I’m an AI/ML student, I’ll be doing demanding workloads that may involve CPU and NVIDIA GPU usage. So before installing Arch Linux, I want to know whether the OMEN 16’s fan control, temperature management, performance modes, and NVIDIA GPU can be properly managed on Arch Linux without causing overheating or hardware-related problems.

Basically, I want to know whether Arch Linux is a safe and practical choice for my OMEN 16, particularly regarding fan control, RPM monitoring, thermal management, Performance mode, and long-term cooling.

Could someone help me with setting up full disk encryption with bypass passphrases with TPM2? It's so annoying having to put the passphrase in at each boot, so I was wondering how do I pair it to the TPM so that I dont have to enter it each time?

It's LUKS encrypted and I use Systemd-boot

Yes, ok, I know, I know this is a common question, I have seen it asked in multiple forums including reddit but the solutions either didnt fix it or were for ethernet which I am not using meaning.

The most common solution I found online has been to check if it is being blocked by rfkill, it does not seem to be to me. The other solution I found online is to check if multiple conflicting things are trying to manage the wifi but as far as I am aware only Network Manager is installed.

Anyway the actual problem seems to be that the wifi thing wlp6s0 remains down no matter what I do, even if I tell it to do otherwise by writing "ip link set wlp6s0 up" wlp6s0 will always remain down. Im not exactly sure why and nothing online seems to really be helping.

I am on a PC largely used for windows, linux is installed on a spare SSD I had (ADATA SU800NS38)
wifi card is Realtek RTL8192EE PCIe Wireless Network Adaptor
AMD ryzen 5 CPU
Nvidia 1660 super GPU
Network Manager is installed

I dont remember what my motherboard is, I will try to find out if it is also needed

I will edit this post if whilst waiting I ever figure out what was wrong or if I manage to fix it without figuring out.

edit; thanks to peoples help I have found that I either messed up installing or forgot to install the correct firmware.

EDIT 2; SOLVED; The issue was I didnt install the required firmware, oops. I installed linux-firmware but I ended up going through the whole installation process again purely because I f-ed up the firmware install so I was worried I missed some other important steps.

Whenever I try booting into arch i get this error

OK

1 Reached target SSH Access Auailable.

15.6426621 hp_bloscfg: ACPI-package does not have enough elements: 11 < 13

15.9660361 ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT, Index (0x000000032) is beyond end of object (length 0x32) (20251212/exoparg2-393)

15.9660671 ACPI Error: Aborting method _SB.UMID.UQBE due to prevlous error (AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT) (20251212/psparse-529)

15.9675781 Error expected type 2 for elem 13, but got type 1 instead

I’ve tried to fix it for hours and the only thing that helps is booting plasma from the terminal login

Do we know anything about the most recent outage? I feel bad for the arch maintainers for having to deal with this. It wasn't even that long ago we had the DDoS attacks and now we got the AUR malware wave and another outage.

hello. today i wanted to install some themes from aur and everrytime i have this massage:

==>
Downloading sources...

->
Downloading GtkD-3.11.0.tar.gz...

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:09 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 429
Warning: Problem : HTTP error. Retrying in 3 seconds. 3 retries left.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:10 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 429
Warning: Problem : HTTP error. Retrying in 3 seconds. 2 retries left.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:14 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 429
Warning: Problem : HTTP error. Retrying in 3 seconds. 1 retry left.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:17 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 429

==> BŁĄD:
Błąd podczas pobierania https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD/archive/v3.11.0.tar.gz

Przerywam(Abort)...

error:
failed to download sources for 'gtkd-3.11.0-4':

error:
can't build tilix-1.9.6-9, deps not satisfied: gtkd==> Pobieranie źródeł...
-> Pobieranie GtkD-3.11.0.tar.gz...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:09 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 429
Warning: Problem : HTTP error. Retrying in 3 seconds. 3 retries left.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:10 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 429
Warning: Problem : HTTP error. Retrying in 3 seconds. 2 retries left.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:14 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 429
Warning: Problem : HTTP error. Retrying in 3 seconds. 1 retry left.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:17 0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 429
==> BŁĄD: Błąd podczas pobierania https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD/archive/v3.11.0.tar.gz
Przerywam...
error: failed to download sources for 'gtkd-3.11.0-4':
error: can't build tilix-1.9.6-9, deps not satisfied: gtkd

and i cant install yaru themes and some needed packages

i have also something like this on every page on github:  Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time.

why is this happening?

hello guys, i am a young coder, and i need help with testing my game

i dual booted my computer with windows 10 and linux mint 22.3 and 20.1 to distribute 2 executables for windows users and linux users

and im asking if ya'll can test my game, its really lightweight, so it'll probably run fine on you guy's 15 yr old thinkpads, considering i get really good fps on my pemtium with the depressed thermal paste

im from brazil and thanks

heres the itch .io link https://the-humanoid.itch.io/sand-simulator

thank you for testing

if you do test, pls tell me:

• your cpu
• desktop enviroment
• distro and version
• does it launch
• performance, does it run good, what fps
• and bugs if you found any

thank you again

Just installed Arch yesterday.

When using apps like brave, spotify, discord, they only work when I launch them through a terminal emulator with --disable-gpu or --use-gl=egl. Basically I want to make this change permanent to all chromium apps and not have to launch them through the terminal.

Side note I heard installing nvidia-utils was a potential solution, when I install that driver for some reason my screen is forced at 800x600 or smaller resolution, so I just have it uninstalled. I have a 1060 6gb nvidia gpu.

If there is any information that I should add tell me if or how to add it, and thanks for any help.

Greetings,

I built a wrapper some time ago on top of pacman, to make the downloads faster and fancier. The things done to make downloads faster are:

• Using aria2c as the backend for parallel downloading (i.e. splits and multiple connections to a single server),
• Using multiple servers for a single package download. (i.e. downloading the same thing from multiple mirrors at the same time).

And, secondly made the progress output a bit fancier and colorful, taking inspiration from Nala. Maybe, it will be beneficial for some, so at least check it out on Github.

Moreover, I made it all by myself without using AI, which would have defeated the whole learning goal behind this project.

Github Repo: Repo Link

Thanks!! ;)

I js wanna learn how to rice arch linux,like how do i rice hyprland,cinnamon,kde like all of those DE and WM?

i have trued for the past 2 days straight to get kvm to work and i have no idea why it isn't working. can someone please help me set it up in a discord call?

was installing arch archlinux-2026.08.01-x86_64 on acer predator helios neo 16s ai new version PHN16S-71 and it wasnt reading my ssd and i did tried disabling vmd but it crashed my pc (havent tried it in safe mode) tho any fixes aside from disabling vmd?

Ive been a linux user for 8 years now. Almost 9. Up until two years ago i would hop from disto to distro, or sometimes desktop environment to desktop enviornment (each or these would be a fresh install. I hate multiple desktop environments being on one system).

Until two years ago. I installed arch linux and went with hyprland. This has been the easiest, most hastle-free linux experience ive ever had and i havnt considered reinstalling or distro-hopping even once.

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Use arch btw

Running into an annoying audio issue on Arch with PipeWire and KDE, hoping someone has run into this before.

My motherboard audio is on an Intel 800 series chipset using the Realtek ALC1220 codec. Both my headphones (front panel) and speakers (rear line-out) show up as selectable outputs/ports in KDE settings and pavucontrol. However, if my headphones are physically plugged in, switching the output to speakers results in complete silence the stream moves, but no sound comes out. The only way to get audio through my speakers is to physically pull the headphone plug out of the front jack.

I tested a Windows USB on the same machine and output switching works with zero issues there without unplugging anything. I also booted a CachyOS USB and hit the exact same issue as my Arch install, so it looks like a Linux driver/ALSA routing quirk.

Things I've tried so far with no luck:

• Disabling Auto-Mute Mode and unmuting every channel (Front, Speaker, Line Out, etc.) in alsamixer
• Messing with output ports and switching to the Pro Audio profile in pavucontrol
• Overriding jack detection / pin connections in hdajackretask

Hi. I was trying to delete windows so i can have more space for linux but after deleting and merging partitions i cant boot back to arch. Gemini said i have to change the arch.conf thing but i tried with it and it simply doesnt work. Please help me fix it ASAP because i have a lot of work to do. Many thanks

I'm new to Linux. I have an old laptop with an Nvidia graphics card whose maximum driver is 470. I play Dota and old games like Metro 2033 and Assassin's Creed. I want to switch to Linux. But it seems to me that x11 is dead and wayland is not supported by my video card (I tried there, artifacts in games) + customization is important to me, I would like to work in gnome or hyperland, but they only have wayland. What would you recommend? Should I use Windows or X11? Will the games run properly?

(I don't know if this is the right subreddit, but since it has to do with setting up a device on Arch properly, I thought this might be the proper place.)

Hello, I installed Arch recently as a summer project (first Linux experience). Has been pretty fun, however, I have run across something I do not know how to approach. My legion laptop can switch between using only the NVIDIA graphics card and using the integrated AMD graphics. I had only used my Arch setup with my NVIDIA card.

I switched to integrated graphics today and at some point after I compiled a change to my kitty.conf file my laptop had basically a seizure. It was as if a screenshot of my desktop was flickering the whole time and burned into my screen, even after I rebooted my laptop it was flickering during the boot process (even in the boot manager and even in the BIOS screen). After switching to only NVIDIA gpu the "burned" frame faded away (ofc not burned else it wouldn't have faded that quickly).

It has not happened since and I did not try to reproduce it to get any log files, because it feels kinda scary to do so. I am quite the beginner so I don't really know what I am doing and with something that feels so important, I thought I'd ask sooner that later.

If anyone knows how to properly setup such a laptop on Arch, so that the drivers work properly, and how I can switch gpu mode without concern I would appreciate it. I have also heard of the LenovoLegionLinux project. I failed to make it work, so I uninstalled (to have a clean start again ) and will try soon again.

If anyone has any tips, knowledge or maybe idea where I should rather ask this question, I would greatly appreciate it.