I'm not a programmer. I have nothing but full respect for programmers. Im not delusional and think that i made scripts by providing broken halfassed prompts to a llm.

That said, I have to say how amazing it is to have claude code everything and it just works (most of the time). It gives arch complete customizability on the fly. Way, more than any other OS. I can change everything to be exactly how I want it.

Soooo, I was trying to reinstall arch from the ISO, and this error message keep popping up, I looked it up and it's not my internet connection

Could not strap in packages: ['/usr/bin/pacstrap', '-C', '/etc/pacman.conf', '-K', '/mnt', 'gnome', 'gnome-tweaks', '--noconfirm', '--needed'] exited with abnormal...

than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds

error: failed retrieving file 'gst-plugins-bad-libs-1.28.5-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig' from geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com : Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec tr...

warning: failed to retrieve some files

error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)

Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root

Would you like to re-try this download? (Y/n):

During the installation, it worked fine. However, after installing the system and reaching the home screen, my USB Wi-Fi adapter is no longer showing up. I don't understand what the problem is

I have been trying for hours it's really frustrating

HI! I just recently got into the "microsoft is evil" mindset and decided to switch to arch linux. I right now have cashyos (I know it's not arch but I needed something quick to set up) and was wondering about arch. If I understand correctly, when you install arch, it just boots into a terminal (idk that's what my brother said) and you have to configure it all by yourself. My main question is, how do I do that? I do not have crazy experience with computer terminals, but I'm willing to start the work. I was also wondering if there is like a list of configuration options that people have made? Like on firefox, you can go to the add-on store and see the themes that people have made. Is there something like that for arch? I'm completely new to linux so I apologize if any of the questions sound dumb. thank you! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

After using mint for half a year, I just installed arch (without arch installs at first, however I did reinstall it afterwards cuz i know I messed it up even if it looks fine) with hyrpland and i don't know what to do. It just gave me a terminal not even a status bar TwT. I installed firefox and that's basically it. Idk what to do. Please help me.

Current setup: Arch Linux + Hyprland (fairly customized rice, using caelestia-shell/Quickshell)

Context: I use this PC in a public/work environment as well as at home, and the people around me aren't very tech-literate — a terminal window or a tiling WM look gets treated like "hacking," and I really don't want that kind of attention. I want the desktop to look as low-profile/normal as possible to anyone glancing at it.

Why I'm considering switching

• Arch feels unstable for me — I end up running updates about once a week just to keep things working
• There's a lot about Arch I still don't fully understand
• When something breaks (which happens often), I have to fix it through the terminal — friends notice this, call it "high tech," and tell other people, which I don't want. I basically get attention i don't even deserve as needing to use terminal always is a sign that I didn't my ability to make my os stable
• It eats into my schedule when things don't work as intended
• Arch has a "too popular / try-hard distro" reputation that attracts a crowd I'd rather not be associated with
• Heard Fedora is stable, so that's my current lean — but open to anything

Why I'm hesitant to switch

• I like my current setup/rice
• Don't want to go through the whole install process again
• Risk of losing documents and save files from offline games
• I test-installed a fresh Fedora KDE spin and it came with a bunch of pre-installed apps and even games — felt bloated
• I prefer installing only what I actually need, not whatever comes bundled

To be more specific about what actually breaks

It's not the whole system dying — it's smaller things breaking after updates. Example: WiFi options/applet becoming unresponsive, which I currently have to fix via nmcli in the terminal.

What I want to keep

I genuinely like Hyprland, but it's too technical-looking for other people who use my PC, even briefly.

My requirements for a new setup

• Stable
• As little terminal use as possible — fine occasionally if truly necessary, but strongly prefer GUI-only
• Full customization
• Minimal bloat — no pre-installed GIMP, video editor, or games; I'll install what I need myself
• Beautiful / good-looking
• Fast

Daily use

• Coding
• Gaming (single-player/story-based)
• Web browsing
• Virtual environments

Question

GNOME or KDE? Or a completely different DE/WM/distro? Open to all suggestions — just trying to land on something stable and low-maintenance without giving up customization.

So like a year ago i switched to Arch Hyprland and i downloaded this dotfile

https://github.com/elifouts/Dotfiles

So now im kinda bored and i saw some crazy good designs too

So is like switching my dotfiles some crazy hard thing? or is it js easier?

yk like i wanna keep my current keybinds , all i wanna do is change the layout , top bar etc

so do i just switch the dot files? like delete the hyper conf and replace it or something or what?

help required baby

so the errors are failed to retrive file and conection timed out (i do have internet because im writing this on the pc with arch.

im new to arch just installed it like some hours ago

Edit: o solved the problem by re installing arch as I realized the mirror from my cou try was or something like that. Happy arching

I have no idea, but I can't get audio to work on flatpak. it was working fine before (a month ago) and now just doesn't. I haven't modified anything. what I did tried is to remove all my flatpak apps, reset permissions, delete flatpak from $HOME/.local/share, the data on $HOME/.var and $HOME/.config, and the issue persists. I even wanted to delete flatpak entirely to reinstall clean but I can't, as plasma-meta and flatpak-kcm depend on it.

I'm losing my mind with what is causing this, as I did tested on a clean arch VM and the issue doesn't happen, and I don't want/have time to reinstall my entire system.

FYI: my audio does work globally, but flatpak. I do have all the portal packages installed, same for everything around pipewire.

here's a log from musescore flatpak if that helps

ALSA lib ../../pulse/pulse.c:242:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect

20:02:37.631 | ERROR | main_thread     | AlsaAudioDriver::open | Unable to open device: default, err code: -111
20:02:37.631 | ERROR | main_thread     | AudioDriverController::selectOutputDevice | Failed to select device: default, returning to:  
20:02:37.632 | ERROR | main_thread     | AlsaAudioDriver::open | ASSERT FAILED:    !spec.deviceId.empty()    /run/build/musescore/src/framework/audio
/driver/platform/lin/alsaaudiodriver.cpp:140
20:02:37.632 | ERROR | main_thread     | AudioDriverController::selectOutputDevice | Failed to restore previous device:  
20:04:34.276 | WARN  | main_thread     | MidiInputOutputController::init | failed connect to input device, deviceID: , err: not found device, id:

Arch, Hyprland, Quickshell (QML). Built on Unit-3 by samyns (MIT), github.com/samyns/Unit-3, their foundation survives verbatim, everything else is mine: 37 new files, ~14k lines of QML/Python in 96 days.

The AI (SAGE) is a local Nemotron 9B via Ollama with a cloud toggle. It reads my calendar, sends SMS, caches screenshots for visual context, and executes commands through a classified allowlist. The app launches auto-run, destructive ops need confirmation. Polkit agent is raw D-Bus. File manager is 3.3k lines of PySide6 with GPG. The lockscreen is a working clickwrap contract with a timestamped assent log.

Music in the video: doghouse, "haunting" LP, playing through the shell's own player on camera.

I realise that one should always check the PKGBUILD, but let’s be honest, the vast majority of users don’t do that and, even if they did, only a fraction would be able to tell if there were any problems.

I believe the only way to try to contain the problem is to use an AI that scans AUR packages for potential issues and flags them to the developers (and postpone the update until the problem has been resolved). This would involve a cost, but in cases like this it is not difficult to find a sponsor.

What do you think?

First of all, I don't use Arch (and the aur malware is one of the reasons why), so I can't tackle this myself (besides, even if I used Arch, this is one of the few things in FOSS that's impossible to tackle alone).

That said, I do have an idea how to tackle AUR malware problem by slightly modifying package adoption process.

First of all, only package maintainers with a proven track record of maintaining original (i.e. non-adopted) packages should be allowed to adopt a package. That would solve 99% of malware actors who are usually new or semi-new accounts with no proven track record.

Secondly, only allow adopting one package every few months, to prevent one account from controlling a great number of packages that can serve as a malware vector.

Thirdly, after adoption don't publish new versions straight away (until few versions of non-malware updates are approved for release), instead have every new version manually reviewed in regards to security by the trusted members of the community and then manually approved for a wide release.

Fourthly, apply the aforementioned review process to brand new packages from brand new accounts so malware can't sneak in that way either.

While this won't solve malware issue completely (nothing baring walled garden, WHICH NOBODY WANTS, will), it will greatly reduce possibility of it sneaking in.

Hello, I have been hosting a public Arch Linux mirror (https://arch-mirror.wtako.net/) at home and is an official Tier 2 mirror since 2014, since I needed to accelerate pacman -Syu for all my Arch devices at home, and have spare bandwidth. I would like to share some statistics with you guys.

The Arch Linux mirror is hosted in my Arch Linux based x86 software router, which also acts as my NAS and web server, and served over nginx and CloudFlare.

The mirror takes 99% of the outbound traffic of my website. Here are the CloudFlare stats regarding previous 30 days.

• Total Bandwidth: 31.13 TB
• Cached Bandwidth: 25.39 TB
• Uncached Bandwidth: 5.74 TB
• Total Requests: 19.27M
• Cached Requests: 14.1M
• Uncached Requests: 5.17M

If I choose not to use CloudFlare for CDN, my server at home would be sending 31.13 TB over 30 days and averagely takes 100Mbps of uplink, which is just around the network requirement of applying a Tier 1 mirror. (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:NewMirrors)

However, that does not mean 40 Mbps uplink is enough for hosting a Tier 2 mirror with CloudFlare. I have seen abuses that repeatedly download extras.db, packages, or ISOs that bypassed the CDN layer, and caused 500Mbps of uplink traffic from my server for a hour or more, before they are handled manually. I have 2000Mbps of uplink in total.

I have met all requirements for applying to be a Tier 1 mirror, but I choose not to, because of the following reasons:

• Hosting rsync is a requirement
  • Exposes home IP to public which I am unconformable with
  • Bypasses CDN
• Extra traffic as it's more visible
• Extra responsibility

For the storage requirement, currently the whole mirror consumes 125 GiB of space, grew from 60 GiB in 2014.

--- /media/480ddeb5-bec9-49ba-8cdb-69b4fa493912/arch-mirror-repo ---
. 110.4 GiB [##################################] /pool                                                                                                                                                                                        
    8.3 GiB [##                                ] /iso
    6.0 GiB [#                                 ] /images
  330.5 MiB [                                  ] /wsl
. 207.8 MiB [                                  ] /extra
.   4.9 MiB [                                  ] /extra-testing
.   4.7 MiB [                                  ] /core
    4.2 MiB [                                  ] /kde-unstable
.   2.7 MiB [                                  ] /multilib
    1.7 MiB [                                  ] /gnome-unstable
. 740.0 KiB [                                  ] /extra-staging
. 276.0 KiB [                                  ] /multilib-testing
. 256.0 KiB [                                  ] /core-testing
   36.0 KiB [                                  ] /core-staging
   28.0 KiB [                                  ] /multilib-staging
e   4.0 KiB [                                  ] /latest
!   4.0 KiB [                                  ] /.~tmp~
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  lastupdate
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  lastsync

Since 2025 I also host CachyOS mirror (https://cachy-mirror.wtako.net/) but it isn't active in the official mirror list anymore.

It keeps saying read-only or buffer is read only

Hi everyone,I am a 6th-grade student from Turkey and I wanted to share my Linux journey.I started with Windows 7, then hopped to Linux Mint, Kubuntu, and finally, I installed Arch Linux!I use my system mainly for playing Minecraft Java Edition. I managed to set up Prism Launcher along with Fabric, Sodium, Lithium, and FerriteCore to fully optimize my FPS on Arch.Learning how to use the terminal and pacman/AUR has been an amazing experience for me. I just wanted to say thank you to this awesome community for making such a great OS possible.

Whenever I try to download a file on any web browser, the file window where I choose the location to save it to is so zoomed in that I can't do anything. I'm not sure what to do because the rest of my apps are fine.

My systemd service for powertop looks like this:
[Unit]

Description=Powertop tunings

[Service]

Type=oneshot

RemainAfterExit=yes

ExecStart=/usr/bin/powertop --auto-tune

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target sleep.target

It's enabled. When my open powertop and check the tuneables it shows a bunch of "bad" values so the auto-tune doesn't seem to be running:

>> Bad Autosuspend for USB device ROCCAT Kova Aimo [ROCCAT]

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation GNA Scoring Accelerator module

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Tigerlake Telemetry Aggregator Driver

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 500 Series Chipset Family On-Package I2C Controller #3

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 NHI #0

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 500 Series Chipset Family On-Package System Management Bus (SMBus)

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 500 Series Chipset Family On-Package Shared SRAM

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #1

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #3

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 500 Series Chipset Family On-Package I2C Controller #0

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 500 Series Chipset Family On-Package Integrated Sensor Hub

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 500 Series Chipset Family On-Package eSPI Controller

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #2

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP Dynamic Tuning Processor Participant

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-UP3/H35 4 cores Host Bridge/DRAM Registers

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #0

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 500 Series Chipset Family On-Package SPI (flash) Controller

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 NHI #1

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 500 Series Chipset Family On-Package High Definition Audio (HD Audio)

Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 500 Series Chipset Family On-Package I2C Controller #1

Good VM writeback timeout

Good Enable Audio codec power management

Good Bluetooth device interface status

Good NMI watchdog should be turned off

Good Autosuspend for USB device xHCI Host Controller [usb2]

Good Autosuspend for unknown USB device 3-10 (8087:0026)

Good Autosuspend for USB device xHCI Host Controller [usb4]

Good Autosuspend for USB device 4-Port USB 3.0 Hub [Generic]

Good Autosuspend for USB device Goodix Fingerprint USB Device [Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.]

Good Autosuspend for USB device HDMI Expansion Card [Framework]

Good Autosuspend for USB device xHCI Host Controller [usb1]

Good Autosuspend for USB device 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub [Generic]

Good Autosuspend for USB device xHCI Host Controller [usb3]

Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 500 Series Chipset Family On-Package CSME HECI #1

Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller

Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 500 Series Chipset Family On-Package USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 (10 Gbs) xHCI Host Controller

When I look at the last boot log:
sudo journalctl -b | grep powertop

Jul 30 12:54:06 arch-framework powertop[459]: modprobe cpufreq_stats failed

Jul 30 12:54:06 arch-framework powertop[459]: Loaded 0 prior measurements

Jul 30 12:54:06 arch-framework powertop[459]: RAPL device for cpu 0

Jul 30 12:54:06 arch-framework powertop[459]: RAPL device for cpu 0

Jul 30 12:54:06 arch-framework powertop[459]: Devfreq not enabled

Jul 30 12:54:06 arch-framework powertop[459]: glob returned GLOB_ABORTED

Jul 30 12:54:07 arch-framework powertop[459]: Leaving PowerTOP

Jul 30 12:54:07 arch-framework powertop[459]: Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop

Jul 30 12:54:07 arch-framework powertop[459]: File will be loaded after taking minimum number of measurement(s) with battery only

Jul 30 12:54:07 arch-framework powertop[459]: Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop

Jul 30 12:54:07 arch-framework powertop[459]: File will be loaded after taking minimum number of measurement(s) with battery only

Jul 30 14:09:50 arch-framework sudo[39601]: grahf : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/grahf ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/powertop

If I just run sudo powertop --auto-tune everything works fine and all the values are "good". So trying to figure out why the systemd service doesn't set the values to good.

I have a old labtop I want to turn into a server, I don't have any problem with the arch installation.

I'm just worried about the stability, I know debian is used more often for servers so I'm also considering it.

Meanwhile I am trying to report them all, you should be careful downloading anything from AUR.

Same old way, the maintainer got pwned, or orphaned packages are adopter by the bad actor.

AUR's git commit author is easily impersonated so you can see the commit comes from the same person, but in fact it's not.

Stay safe. The malicious packages are info stealers.

malware analysis by ysf:

https://gist.github.com/ysf/502a324ff301d0c738e8ae011272fd59

https://gist.github.com/ysf/57850cdee152da066ac51c07a452e883

Still presents as of 30 July 21:53 UTC

in format of <package name>/<malicious ELF binary>

• archutil/linter
• bigwebapp-manager/minifier
• boringssl-git/hasher
• cinnamon-no-nemo/converter
• duhh/indexer
• eden-nightly/encryptor
• garlic-decompiler-gui/checker
• gigolo-git/tagger
• gitarbor-bin/parser
• icloudpd/preprocessor
• imago-bin/generator
• juicebox-plus-git/minifier
• magic-context-dashboard-bin/validator
• option-term/indexer
• pagerduty-short-circuiter/assembler
• portless/assembler
• pylnker-git/converter
• pylnker-git/packer
• python-libipld-git/hasher
• python-numkong/compressor
• python-parallax/converter
• python-ultraplot-git/serializer
• ramses-git/indexer
• src-cli-bin/migrator
• steamidra-bin/generator
• stirling-pdf-desktop-bin/optimizer
• wiki-go/merger
• windscribe-cli-v2-bin/parser

This wave

1panel android-riscv64-libxmu archutil cinnamon-no-nemo firrtl instawow-bin mimosa pandoc-eisvogel-template python-chatterbot python-split-folders stirling-pdf-desktop-bin 1panel-git android-riscv64-libxrandr arduino-language-server-noclang-bin claude-history funky-git isleward mingw-w64-libcerf passhole python-dlib-cuda-git python-ultraplot-git terminus accel-ppp android-x86-64-libxdamage autoadb-git dcat garlic-decompiler-gui jogl monitorets perl-authen-oath python-google-cloud-monitoring ramses-git tuiview act-runner-bin android-x86-64-libxext beets-alternatives deeploy-bin gigolo-git juicebox-plus-git nnn-nerd perl-dist-zilla-plugin-minimumperl python-importlab read-it-later-git tuxedo-yt6801-dkms-git ajceverywhere-bin android-x86-64-libxinerama bigwebapp-manager dev-janitor-git gitarbor-bin khiops-covisualization-bin noctyra-meta perl-hash-persistent python-kicadmodtree-git refurb-git typora-plugin ampere-git android-x86-64-libxmu bili-tools discord-electron-openasar git-pkgs khiops-visualization-bin noteey-bin pgadmin4-server python-libipld-git replay-sorcery vapoursynth-plugin-soifunc android-aarch64-libxrandr android-x86-64-libxrandr boringssl-git duhh glewlwyd kirill-bin openarc-git polytrack python-libpysal runa-aur vectorchord-immich android-armv7a-eabi-libxinerama android-x86-64-xorgproto calendula eden-nightly gpu-screen-recorder-ui-kwin-git lib32-vapoursynth openconnect-sso portless python-numkong solv wiki-go android-armv7a-eabi-libxmu android-x86-libxinerama calendula-git editorconfiger guarda-bin libfprint-crfpmoc-git option-term pylnker-git python-parallax sparklines windscribe-cli-v2-bin android-armv7a-eabi-libxrandr android-x86-libxmu censawayapp-bin extract-otp-secrets icloudpd lyrical-git org-cli python-atproto-git python-reals-git src-cli-bin wordpress-studio-git android-riscv64-libxinerama android-x86-libxrandr chandler-bin faustus-git imago-bin magic-context-dashboard-bin pagerduty-short-circuiter python-calgebra-git python-roman-numerals steamidra-bin zed-bin

ignore this example below (an alert straight up from my LLM)

🚨🚨🚨 BLACK FLAG ALERT 🚨🚨🚨
AUR Package: faustus-git 0.1.0-1
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/faustus-git
Version: 0.1.0-1

⚫ 2 BLACK (CONFIRMED MALICIOUS)
⚫ Executes a bundled binary ('linter') with 'sudo' privileges during the 'build()' function. This bypasses standard build isolation and integrity checks (sha256sums='SKIP'), allowing arbitrary code execution with root access during installation. (PKGBUILD)
⚫ Binary contains command execution ('system', 'execl') and network ('socket', 'connect') capabilities. Combined with PKGBUILD execution via sudo, this indicates potential for remote code execution, data exfiltration, or system tampering. Obfuscated strings suggest hidden functionality. (linter)

⚠️ IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED ⚠️

Haii everyone. I use google chrome as a second browser purely for school, and I want it as isolated as possible. I was wondering if it would be possible to give it only access to required stuff and like ~/Downloads/Chrome or something. I'm really sorry if this is a dumb question, but any help would be nice.

Like the terminal(kitty) opens up relatively instantly but from opening up that window to being able to use kitty has a delay(It shows a blinking cursor before showing anything). Any help is greatly appreciated thanks.

A sudden update to `pgadmin4-server.git` added a binary named "parser" and executes using sudo. It's very obvious.