Hi guys, I'd like to try Arch in a VM. I'm on OSX Sequoia at the moment, what software would you recommend for handling VMs with my system?

In the past I tried Virtualbox but I didn't like it so much; independently of what my configuration was for a VM it will always boot the VM using the UEFI shell, and updating the VM's configuration didn't resolve the issue.

What you suggest?

Amelia is an Arch Linux installer, written in Bash.

See it in live action here

# Only for UEFI platforms #

There is support for:

Most Arch officially-supported Desktop Environments

LUKS encryption

Secure-Boot signing for Grub & sd-boot

Ext4 - Btrfs filesystems

Swap - Swapfile - Zram

Auto-Guidance through the menus

Smart Partitioning and other goodies..

This time around comes with support for disabling Watchdogs in the installed system.

Also, now there is support for enabling 'systemd-oomd' for optimal 'OOM' management.

And as always, the installer follows the latest Arch Linux updates/changes.

The tiny script is meant to be executed from within a booted Archlinux installation media.

Happy February to all !!!

Cheers!

Hello all,

I have been trying to fix this for hours and I'm about to seriously strangle something, so I need the help of someone smarter than me.

As the title states, I swapped the normal NVidia drivers on my system to the beta variants. I installed nvidia-beta beta-utils and settings-beta. I prepped my Xorg config for them and reloaded. It booted without an issue, but then Steam refused to launch. I looked around online, and found a thread of a person saying to uninstall xdg-desktop-portal [I wasn't wholly aware of its importance] to which I did. Did Ctrl Alt Backsp, and no dice. Then I found someone in another thread who vert intelligently pointed out that you also need the lib32 beta drivers for steam to work. I completely forgot that was even a thing so I went through and installed that.

I rebooted, got past SDDM and was greeted by a very corrupted looking screen. Window outlines were there, but every other element was a garbled mess of colors. This is when I learned how important xdg is, and so I reinstalled that, the KDE version, and for good measure. Reinstalled every single package Plasma required. Reboot after reboot. Nothing. I was completely convinced my system was primo fucked until I learned about Shift Alt F12. I could see my DE again, so I started looking into what could be wrong with the compositor. After 5 hours of fucking around with this just to get FarCry cuts cents to not be a munted mess, and far too many bad words, I give up. I have deduced that:

KWin is running [shocker] It does not respect the "Enable of Startup] option in System Settings [Which I disabled] It fails to work, wether or not I select OpenGL, or XRender

That's about all the information I have. Please please help me, these black rectangles around 90% of my windows are irritating as shit

I recently got a new ssd that I moved my steamgames and swap to. So I wanted to merge the partition I used for steamgames with the home/root partition and swap partition.

I first made a copy of sda3 with: (sda3 was originally about 150GB)

dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/sdb2 conv=noerror,sync status=progress

I booted from a live arch usb. Then I used cfdisk to delete sda3 and sda4. Then expanded sda2 (old swap partition). Then I copied sdb2 to sda2 with:

dd if=/dev/sdb2 of=/dev/sda2 conv=noerror,sync status=progress

Then I generated a new fstab and initramfs.

Everything seemed to be fine untill I tried installing something. I have no idea why It's like this. I have 465G but can only access the 147 that are already used. I couldn't find anything that helps through the internet, or anyone with a similar issue.

output of df -h:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

dev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev

run 7.8G 1.4M 7.8G 1% /run

efivarfs 128K 25K 99K 21% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

/dev/sda2 147G 139G 184M 100% /

tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm

tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service

tmpfs 7.8G 8.0K 7.8G 1% /tmp

/dev/sda1 499M 322M 178M 65% /boot

/dev/nvme0n1p2 885G 474G 367G 57% /steamGames

tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/getty@tty1.service

tmpfs 1.6G 48K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000

output of lsblk (sdb is a usb drive):

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS

sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk

├─sda1 8:1 0 500M 0 part /boot

└─sda2 8:2 0 465.3G 0 part /

sdb 8:16 1 231.1G 0 disk

├─sdb1 8:17 1 26G 0 part

├─sdb2 8:18 1 205.1G 0 part

└─sdb3 8:19 1 32M 0 part

nvme0n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk

├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 31.5G 0 part [SWAP]

└─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 900G 0 part /steamGames

Everyone talk about how good arch wiki is. Someone says "I learned linux from wiki" other say "When I face an issue on ubuntu i look for arch wiki".But it turns out i can't use arch wiki efficiently. Lets say i want to install qemu/virt-manager. When i look to wiki it looks super complicated and i am tottaly scared of if i write something wrong to terminal i will break the whole system. So my problem is i can only install something if there is a tutorial on youtube and this make me feel so bad about myself. Am i stupid or it is not that beginner friendly and i need some background ? And how can i learn reading from wiki ?

I installed kde plasma, grub and got to the login screen but nothing happens when I enter the password, the password is correct. I put intel drivers but it didn't work. I tried to do something with xorg. I installed it, but I can't run it with startx command (command not found) and check its status (shows no xorg.service).

I can connect to my phones hotspot but i cant connect to my own network the error is Secrets are required but not provided. Help please

Is 7GB enough cause thats all stupid windows will let me partions

I just setup arch linux on my laptop as a main Os, problem is as soon as I start working on it (I havent installed a Gui yet) after some time (≈20/30min) they keyboard stops working, no input no nothing.

A package I use had a really nice set of features added with the new release. The package was flagged in the repositories as out of date on 1/19. Is a, grateful for all your work / gentle reminder, email frowned upon?

Are there other actions I could take to help maintain the package and keep it up to date?

Help im new to arch and i want to set it up on a laptop my no wifi os detected any help is appreciated im using a macbook air model a1466 and i have no clue pls help

So, I was doing the usual "pacman -Syu", it was great until nodejs wasn't upgrading so I stopped the pacman process, I think that was a fatal error.

I can't access to Hyprland and can't reboot/hybernate/shutdown in sddm, I can't open a tty in sddm. So, I ask to ChatGPT for help and I discover the rescue mode. In the rescue mode I found I have a problem with the mirrors. So, I try to connect to internet with ping. The ping worked before, now is a mess. So, I have a problem with dbus, and I don't know how to solved it. Please help :')

I only have a few months with arch and I love it, I want to solve this but I know I have no idea about this :(

UPDATE: So, I can update the pacman. I have connection, the problem is very time I restart I need to type "ip link set enp2s0 up" because the thing is down somehow. The problem I have now is with the dbus.service, because the dbus.service is not working for the dbus-broker.service (there is a link between this two) and I don't know how to solve the dbus situation. When I start Arch, between grub and ssdm, is a error message of dbus system, I think my main problem is with dbus, not with the connection or pacman

Recently I bought a monitor to use with my laptop and Hyprland got bunch of problems with multiple monitors. I'm currently using COSMIC but I wanna switch to Wayfire for customizing but even the main laptop screen renders everything fine tough other one has bunch of rendering problems. I'm new to wayfire and I haven't found anything that I think might solve the problem in Arch Wiki. I really need help I.

• I ran wayfire under standart NVIDIA driver and standart Linux kernel and glitches were same.

• When I ran Plasma, COSMIC or Gnome there is no glitches.

• If I ran Wayfire under a DE it works fine in second monitor.

• When I start wayfire with prime-run it still glitches on same monitor

Here is my specs:

• RTX 3050TI 4GB (Latest nvidia-dkms 565.77-3)
• 11Th Gen Intel Core i7-11800H 2.30GHz
• 16x2 3200MHz DDR4 ram

Picture of glitches: imgur.com/a/nOvP4Nm

So for whatever reason whenever i use pip/pip3 install on arch it doesnt work and returns the following error message. Also I have uninstalled and reinstalled python as a whole multiple times since this error and still no joy.

Command: pip install

ERROR: Exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 160, in exc_logging_wrapper

status = run_func(*args)

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py", line 247, in wrapper

return func(self, options, args)

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 326, in run

session = self.get_default_session(options)

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py", line 98, in get_default_session

self._session = self.enter_context(self._build_session(options))

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py", line 125, in _build_session

session = PipSession(

cache=os.path.join(cache_dir, "http") if cache_dir else None,

...<3 lines>...

ssl_context=ssl_context,

)

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/network/session.py", line 343, in __init__

self.headers["User-Agent"] = user_agent()

~~~~~~~~~~^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/network/session.py", line 175, in user_agent

setuptools_dist = get_default_environment().get_distribution("setuptools")

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/importlib/_envs.py", line 188, in get_distribution

return next(matches, None)

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/importlib/_envs.py", line 185, in <genexpr>

for distribution in self.iter_all_distributions()

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/base.py", line 612, in iter_all_distributions

for dist in self._iter_distributions():

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/importlib/_envs.py", line 176, in _iter_distributions

for dist in finder.find_eggs(location):

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/importlib/_envs.py", line 144, in find_eggs

yield from self._find_eggs_in_dir(location)

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/importlib/_envs.py", line 111, in _find_eggs_in_dir

from pip._vendor.pkg_resources import find_distributions

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2164, in <module>

register_finder(pkgutil.ImpImporter, find_on_path)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

AttributeError: module 'pkgutil' has no attribute 'ImpImporter'. Did you mean: 'zipimporter'?

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/sbin/pip", line 8, in <module>

sys.exit(main())

~~~~^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 70, in main

return command.main(cmd_args)

~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 101, in main

return self._main(args)

~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 216, in _main

self.handle_pip_version_check(options)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py", line 179, in handle_pip_version_check

session = self._build_session(

options,

...<6 lines>...

fallback_to_certifi=True,

)

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py", line 125, in _build_session

session = PipSession(

cache=os.path.join(cache_dir, "http") if cache_dir else None,

...<3 lines>...

ssl_context=ssl_context,

)

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/network/session.py", line 343, in __init__

self.headers["User-Agent"] = user_agent()

~~~~~~~~~~^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/network/session.py", line 175, in user_agent

setuptools_dist = get_default_environment().get_distribution("setuptools")

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/importlib/_envs.py", line 188, in get_distribution

return next(matches, None)

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/importlib/_envs.py", line 185, in <genexpr>

for distribution in self.iter_all_distributions()

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/base.py", line 612, in iter_all_distributions

for dist in self._iter_distributions():

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/importlib/_envs.py", line 176, in _iter_distributions

for dist in finder.find_eggs(location):

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/importlib/_envs.py", line 144, in find_eggs

yield from self._find_eggs_in_dir(location)

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_internal/metadata/importlib/_envs.py", line 111, in _find_eggs_in_dir

from pip._vendor.pkg_resources import find_distributions

File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2164, in <module>

register_finder(pkgutil.ImpImporter, find_on_path)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

AttributeError: module 'pkgutil' has no attribute 'ImpImporter'. Did you mean: 'zipimporter'?

I recently made the move to Arch from Windows, and I've been able to deal with most of the issues. However, there is one thing missing that I'm greatly struggling with.

I handle massive amounts of multimedia and often need to dive into the data. WizTree has been amazing for this. It not only shows the file sizes for folders and files (in both actual size and reserved size on disk), but has a search function where I can list files with good filtering options (for example, I can search for a specific file type or I can exclude files that include certain words on the name). I can also freely select an assortment of folders and disks to scan and filter. In short, it's amazing for data management.

There doesn't seem to be a software for Linux that does the same. I can find applications that show folder sizes, file sizes, the basic stuff. I haven't been able to find any that has the extra functionality of WizTree.

I'm at a point where I'm considering leaving data management to a virtual Windows machine where I share the specific disks with the VM, or setting up another boot drive with Windows just for this purpose. The disks are currently in NTFS which has great performance for this purpose, but I would be willing to convert them into something else if necessary.

I used to wonder why people complicate things instead of embracing simplicity, especially Arch Linux users. Why would anyone want to manage everything themselves?

My Linux journey began three years ago during my Software Engineering degree, starting with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) running Debian. Initially, using the terminal as my daily driver was intimidating. Later, I switched completely to Ubuntu and grew more comfortable. I discovered Neovim and fell in love with it - kudos to the Vim creators!

The hype around Arch kept catching my attention. After some research, I discovered it centered around Arch's DIY philosophy. Curiosity got the better of me, so I decided to give it a shot in a VM first.

I spent about a week learning the installation process through the ArchWiki, Reddit, and some AI assistance. As I dove deeper, each new term led me down fascinating rabbit holes of knowledge. The Wiki's structure is brilliant - it guides you while encouraging exploration of related concepts. I can confidently say the ArchWiki is the finest documentation I've encountered on the internet. It's not just documentation; it's a masterpiece.

During this process, I created my own documentation in Obsidian, and ultimately gained a deep understanding of the GNU/Linux system. When I finally installed Arch on my actual machine, I barely needed to reference anything (except for a post-installation audio issue) - it all came naturally.

I now understand that truly knowing Linux comes from building and maintaining your system yourself. To all Arch users out there: instead of just saying "I use Arch btw," I'll say "I love Arch btw!" Much respect to the GNU/Linux creators, Arch maintainers, Wiki contributors, and the entire community.

Arch BTW, forever!

I am new to arch and when i was installing the system iwctl worked and i was able to connect to wireless network but after rebooting into arch iwd wasn't working i had to use USB tethering to install it using pacman now "wlan0" doesnt show up anymore i searched for like an hour and could not find anything

i dont know if it is the laptops fault or i just messed something up

I tried to load minecraft as one does and my computer couldn’t handle it and it froze so I restarted it now when I try to boot into my computer it says

Loading Linux linux … Error:file ‘/vmlinuz-linux’ not found Loading initial ramdisk Error: you need to load kernel first

Any help?

Edit: my secure boot is disabled

(SOLVED) - My Specs (RX 7600 / Ryzen 3600x / Arch Linux / Kernel 6.13 from the Testing Repo)

THE PROBLEM:
I'm new to Arch linux and I know that I have a lot to learn but it was running very and everything was smooth, After a reboot of the system, the file manager (nautilus) and the console/terminal stopped launching, non system apps like firefox, discord, etc are working normal but anything related to the core system looks broken. Gnome Extensions and the manager are working.

On Xorg everything just works again, seems to be a wayland problem.

I dont remember if I removed any packages since my last reboot, So it may be my fault but I'm not sure of anything

I can use Xorg normally, but I want to lear Arch and would like to know if there's a way to "Restart" or "Reinstall" Wayland to fix this

Anyway, if u guys have any ideas of what can i do to fix this, i'll be happy to read your tips. Peace ✌️

THE SOLUTION:

IT WAS 100% MY FAULT

I installed another terminal emulator via octopi and tried to run nautilus, turn's out that was mangohud with the Global Enable option that broke my gnome on wayland, after turned to off everything turned back to normal.

So feels like Mangohud with the global enable toogle doesnt like Gnome/Wayland 😂

Hi everyone.

I am currently trying to setup a web interface for my locally running deepseek ai r1 model.

Here is the command I am running to start the docker:

docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --gpus all -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:cuda

The command is taken from here: https://docs.openwebui.com/getting-started/quick-start/

However, when I go to 127.0.0.1:3000 I cannot find the ollama model and it says Ollama : Network problem.

Here is what I've tried:

curl 127.0.0.1:11434 returns me Ollama is running.

and in the open webui the ollama url is set to 127.0.0.1:11434, without any success.

Hi! Someone running Arch Linux in a Asus Vivobook?? (X1404ZA - i3 1215u)

Any problem??
If Arch doesn't work, any idea?? Suggestion?? Should I go back to Ubuntu?

Thanks!

I just installed gnome network displays but every time i open it this shows in konsole

[keke@archlinux ~]$ gnome-network-displays

(gnome-network-displays:11903): Adwaita-WARNING **: 17:13:40.171: Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead. MESA-INTEL: warning: ../mesa-24.3.4/src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:782: FINISHME: support YUV colorspace with DRM format modifiers MESA-INTEL: warning: ../mesa-24.3.4/src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:814: FINISHME: support more multi-planar formats with DRM modifiers

(gnome-network-displays:11903): Gnd-WARNING **: 17:13:40.406: Failed to create screencast session: CreateSession failed [keke@archlinux ~]$

I've been trying to get nftables working with ufw/gufw for the last couple of days but for some reason when I check the status of ufw with `sudo ufw status` it always returns:

"Status: inactive"

When I type `sudo ufw enable` it returns:

"ERROR: Could not load logging rules"

and if I try to check the status again with `sudo ufw status` it still returns "Status: inactive"

First I will share the /etc/nftables.conf file:

```

#!/usr/bin/nft -f

# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:

# IPv4/IPv6 Simple & Safe firewall ruleset.

# More examples in /usr/share/nftables/ and /usr/share/doc/nftables/examples/.

flush ruleset

table inet filter {

chain input {

type filter hook input priority 100;

policy drop;

ct state invalid drop comment "early drop of invalid connections"

ct state { established, related } accept comment "allow tracked connections"

iif "lo" accept comment "allow from loopback"

ip protocol icmp accept comment "allow icmp"

meta l4proto icmpv6 accept comment "allow icmp v6"

tcp dport 22 accept comment "allow sshd"

pkttype host limit rate 5/second counter reject with icmp type admin-prohibited

# For IPv6, uncomment the following line:

pkttype host limit rate 5/second counter reject with icmpv6 type admin-prohibited

counter

}

chain forward {

type filter hook forward priority 100;

policy drop;

}

chain output {

type filter hook output priority 100;

policy accept;

}

```

Here is my current /etc/ufw/ufw.conf file:

```

# /etc/ufw/ufw.conf

#

# Set to yes to start on boot. If setting this remotely, be sure to add a rule

# to allow your remote connection before starting ufw. Eg: 'ufw allow 22/tcp'

ENABLED=yes

# Please use the 'ufw' command to set the loglevel. Eg: 'ufw logging medium'.

# See 'man ufw' for details.

LOGLEVEL=low

IPV6=no

```

nftables status:

```

❯ sudo systemctl status nftables

○ nftables.service - Netfilter Tables

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nftables.service; enabled; preset: disabled)

Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2025-01-30 00:48:58 PST; 1 day 9h ago

Invocation: 7c0d28d523ca400a8f9eb0eff66e2b2f

Docs: man:nft(8)

Main PID: 802727 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Mem peak: 1.6M

CPU: 6ms

Jan 30 00:48:58 arch systemd[1]: Starting Netfilter Tables...

Jan 30 00:48:58 arch systemd[1]: nftables.service: Deactivated successfully.

Jan 30 00:48:58 arch systemd[1]: Finished Netfilter Tables.

```

ufw status:

```

❯ sudo systemctl status ufw

● ufw.service - CLI Netfilter Manager

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ufw.service; disabled; preset: disabled)

Active: active (exited) since Fri 2025-01-31 03:05:19 PST; 7h ago

Invocation: 020e4ff47f914e80a306734d6137959d

Main PID: 1730002 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Mem peak: 1.6M

CPU: 10ms

Jan 31 03:05:19 arch systemd[1]: Starting CLI Netfilter Manager...

Jan 31 03:05:19 arch ufw-init[1730006]: Skip starting firewall: ufw (not enabled)

Jan 31 03:05:19 arch systemd[1]: Finished CLI Netfilter Manager.

~

❯

```

I have also tried disabling nftables since in the arch wiki it says "Note that this will not work if iptables.service is also enabled (and same for its ipv6 counterpart)."

```

❯ sudo systemctl status nftables

○ nftables.service - Netfilter Tables

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nftables.service; disabled; preset: disabled)

Active: inactive (dead)

Docs: man:nft(8)

Jan 28 23:29:39 arch systemd[1]: Starting Netfilter Tables...

Jan 28 23:29:39 arch systemd[1]: nftables.service: Deactivated successfully.

Jan 28 23:29:39 arch systemd[1]: Finished Netfilter Tables.

Jan 30 00:45:29 arch systemd[1]: Starting Netfilter Tables...

Jan 30 00:45:29 arch systemd[1]: nftables.service: Deactivated successfully.

Jan 30 00:45:29 arch systemd[1]: Finished Netfilter Tables.

Jan 30 00:48:58 arch systemd[1]: Starting Netfilter Tables...

Jan 30 00:48:58 arch systemd[1]: nftables.service: Deactivated successfully.

Jan 30 00:48:58 arch systemd[1]: Finished Netfilter Tables.

~

❯

```

Any Idea why ufw won't start and keeps returning the error:

"ERROR: Could not load logging rules"?

Recently, my cursor started changing its size when it gets near GTK apps even though I'm on GNOME. I think the culprit might be Hyprland because I installed that recently? Although, I deleted Hyprland and that did not fix the issue. Where do I start with troubleshooting something like this?

I have enjoyed Arch so far and am using one for a pseudo-steam machine. I have this pseudo-steam machine in my bedroom hooked up to a 720p plasma. Which doesn't look bad for older games but looks like hot trash for newer ones (stupid TAA/AIupscaling reliance). I want to set the resolution that it renders at to 1440p and downscale it to 720p. I have it set so that steam launches in big-picture mode with gamescope integration, but any time I set gamescope parameters in steam to launch a game in steam the game closes on launch.

my current parameter. gamescope -w 2560 -h 1440 -W 1280 -H 720 -f -- %command%

Any help is appreciated!

I am having a very annoying issue of bluetooth headphones sound clipping...this is only happening when the internet or the pc itself is under some load or its fine.My wifi/Bluetooth card is Realtek 8821CE...any help would be appreciated.. Thanks

I was today prompted with a popup from kde plasma that said I needed to do something with fcitx. I had no idea what fcitx was, but I ignorantly decided to do as i was told, and i realized it was something keyboard related. Anyway it changed my keyboard layout which annoyed me a bit.

I then did a pacman -Qi fcitx5 and saw no dependencies, but it was installed as a dependency.

I then did pacman -Qdt and realized a bunch of packages that are all just sitting there apparently not used by anything. Hence the title of this post

... I dont want to break anything xD please help :)

I took out the drive from my laptop to try and use it in another computer but it keeps getting stuck on A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid/35142b8e-43ff-4926-bdad-ca79ea552275 I go to boot into the archiso and find out the 35142b8e-43ff-4926-bdad-ca79ea552275 is the root partition of the drive I took from my laptop. The drive only has 2 partition, the main root partition and the EFI partition; I do not have swap enable in any way.

Anyone able to help me out?

So whenever I restore my system from sleep its just a blank screen and I have to force restart my computer to be able to use it again.
I am using a nvidia graphics card

System Specs:
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: MS-7D78 1.0
Kernel: 6.12.10-arch1-1
Uptime: 24 mins
Packages: 893 (pacman), 25 (flatpak) Shell: bash 5.2.37 Resolution: 2560x1440, 3840x2160 DE: Plasma 6.2.5 WM: KWin Theme: Default [GTK2/3] Icons: breeze [GTK2/3] Terminal: flatpak-session CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (24) @ 5.733GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GPU: AMD ATI 11:00.0 Raphael Memory: 4297MiB / 31239MiB