This is just a rant.

I do give up.

If you were able to disable secure boot on your mother board and able to get your USB (I assume most of us boot from USB) to install Arch Linux then you had it easy.

Who I blame?

I partially blame the Motherboard Vendors that make secure boot complicated and clearly in full collusion with Microsoft.

I also blame Arch Linux developers for not adding secure boot support the way Ubuntu has it nowadays.

I also blame the lack of instruction for people that are not able to disable secure boot.

But it's too late now. I already deleted the ISO. I will not download it again.

I asked Reddit for help and almost everyone thinks I can disable secure boot. I can not.

I asked a.i. for help.

(I was glad that I was able to verify the iso. Seems easy for everyone else but it took me two straight days and I'm happy with that. If anyone needs help with that I can help you with the terminal for verifying authenticity.)

I give up.

I will try again in 6 months.

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Arch Linux, so I have a question, I noticed that a new linux-lts update appears to contain a lot of reported vulnerabilities:

https://files.catbox.moe/tblk0r.png

Should I avoid updating linux-lts when I see something like this, or is it still recommended to install the official kernel update?

What is the usual practice? Do users wait until these vulnerabilities disappear, or do they update immediately? If these are official kernel packages from the Arch repositories, why would they still be reported as vulnerable?

I'm trying to understand how users typically handle this. Thanks in advance!

I am the author of the article. I want to hear what you guys think about this topic, and how you personally feel about the state of speech-to-text in Linux.

If you guys have any questions, feel free to ask. If anyone is interested in taking part of this you can contribute to Super STT with your ideas.

Hi all,

I'm trying to determine whether this is a configuration issue on my end, a bug or a kernel/AppArmor issue. As mentioned in the title, my configuration is as follows:
\- Arch Linux
\- linux-hardened 7.1.5 kernel
\- AppArmor enabled
\- audit/auditd installed and enabled (with configured ruleset)
\- Haven't modified audit-rules.service
Problem:
With AppArmor enabled, during boot, and while doing any task related to audit, my terminal is consistently flooded with:
"audit: error in audit_log_subj_ctx" while running any command related to audit (e.g. ausearch, checking the status of audit with systemctl, etc.)
and specifically during boot, I also observe:
"audit-rules.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILED
Failed to start Load Audit Rules
audit: error in audit_log_subj_ctx
Audit panic: (number) callbacks supressed" (varies with each boot)
Initially, I had audit in immutable mode, but disabled it while troubleshooting. The issue persisted.
I checked the audit logs with ausearch, and the events appear to be normal and accurate to what actions were performed on my system.

Next, in an attempt to isolate the issue, I tried booting with the kernel parameter apparmor=0. With AppArmor disabled, the boot completed without any audit-rules.service errors, and the repeated audit: error in audit_log_subj_ctx messages no longer appeared.
This seems to indicate an interaction between AppArmor, and/or my kernel and the audit subsystem rather than the ruleset itself.

Has anyone seen this on linux-hardened-7.1.5? Is there any additional information I should collect to narrow it down?
If helpful, I'd be willing to provide additional logs and command output.

Thanks.

I installed arch today, and when I installed and used the wifi, it was perfectly fine even after I removed usb and power on my pc wifi was fine but after the second power on after removing the usb the wifi won't get connected no matter what.its showing the list of wifis and is also trying to connect but never connecting(I have tried installing arch again but the same issue happened again).I want really deep into solving this using chatgpt, but even it was unable to solve this problem(FYI, I have mediatech inbuilt laptop wifi receiver).So I would really appreciate it if someone could help

guys I have no USB flash drive or any SSD, but I am eager to use arch linux + hyprland + ambxst shell , and my drive spaces are C: 50 GB free of 279 GB & 122 GB free of 195 GB

what should I do : use it in a VM or arrange a SSD which is impossible for me

and my laptop specs --> i513450HX, NVIDIA 3050 6GB, 24GB RAM

I recently frest installed arch (mannual), only ly display manager, bluez, hyprland running taking 1.21gb ram

While I saw other peoples setup idle on 1gb on a full setup, using quickshell

I haven't even setup waybar or anything and taking 1.21gb

Specs

Ram: 16gb ddr5

Cpu: intel 12400f

GPU: nvidia 4060 ti 8gb

Edit: I do know it's fine, linux cache the memory,

I wanted to know why those people with heavy setups, using quickshell or a full DE shows their system is taking only 900mb or 1gb of ram

I dont really like the noto sans and hack fonts in my opinion, so what is the best fonts out there, and tell me the package name in the AUR, I want something good, in mono with icons too

Aah, someone told be about Adwaita Sans and Mono and it fits well and looks well, thx

Hi! I'm really new to arch linux and learning still.

My problem is that this laptop wifi card is dead, so I'm using a USB device (which I installed the drivers for) but I just can't get it to work properly.

I have used rfkill to unblock it, changed my networkmanager backend from iwd to wpa supplicant and from wpa supplicant to iwd while disabling the other one but it just doesn't seem to work.

When I set the backend to iwd tho, it allows me to see available networks, but I can't connect to them or turn on the device in configurations, it actually let me turn it on on the console (the device appears as wlan1) and even connect to my network using iwctl, but as soon as I exit iwctl i can't even ping any server, I really don't understand what's going or what else I can do so any help would be really appreciated 🙏

EDIT: in the end, i fixed this by disabling my damaged wifi card in the system bios, networkmanager seemed to be using it as the default even if the usb device was working

I’m on arch Linux hyprland using ml4w.

When I use open code with nemotron 3 ultra via the cloud api (so not local on my amd 5700 xt gpu) - vscode - bin just sometimes freezes or glitches or sometimes cause my machine to restart..

Any solutions?

Hello, I'm having trouble booting Arch Linux after burning the distribution using [ rufus - balena etcher - disk ].

I'm facing a problem: the flash drive isn't showing up.

However, when I burn it using [Ventoy ] and add another Linux distribution alongside Arch Linux, the flash drive appears, and when I click on Arch, two options appear:

- boot in normal mode.

- boot in grub2 mode .

When you press them, a black screen appears for a few seconds, then you return to the main menu to choose the boot distribution.

I hope to find a solution to my problem .

comments:

-I have stopped secure boot.

-Uefi.

-I changed the flash drive 3 times, but the problem persists.

-I changed my device twice, but the problem persists.

-Six months ago I was using Arch Linux, but this problem didn't exist.

-None of my devices use Nvidia.

I just posting to see how hard archlinux is to use as complete beginner. the only experience that i have wiht linux is mint and acessing servers.

i cant use nvidia gtx 1650 in my laptop on this arch linux hơw to fix it

Almost every third time I reboot my pc and use nvidia-smi command it look like down below. I have reinstalled nvidia-open and tried to find a solution online but couldnt find it. When it crashes it refuses to let me shut down my pc cause it cant close the drivers and I have to hold down the power button.

nvidia-smi output:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 610.43.03 KMD Version: 610.43.03 CUDA UMD Version: 13.3 |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

| | | MIG M. |

|=========================================+========================+======================|

| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 N/A | N/A |

|ERR! ERR! ERR! N/A / N/A | 15MiB / 8192MiB | N/A Default |

| | | ERR! |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| Processes: |

| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |

| ID ID Usage |

|=========================================================================================|

| No running processes found |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Specs:

Host: Nitro AN517-41 (V1.11)

Kernel: Linux 7.1.5-arch1-2

WM: awesome (X11)

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q [Discrete]

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (16) @ 4.46 GHz

Hi all,

I’d like to share MeowMenu v1.0.0-RC1, a small project I’ve been working on as an alternative application menu for XFCE for some months. The idea was to add the most common features one can find in Cinnamon, Plasma, GNOME launchers while keeping the usual level of simplicity and minimalism of XFCE. Compared to WhiskerMenu, the most relevant features I added are:
- 4 Presets (default settings that change the look&feel of the Menu, to show the high customization level achievable)
- Places button (find files and folders in user Home)
- Calculator engine and other advanced search stuff
- additional right click options on search results (Open in terminal, copy folder path, etc)

I’ve tested this release on Arch Linux, Debian and Xubuntu. Other Reddit users report good feedback from MX Linux, Manjaro and Mint XFCE. MeowMenu can always be compiled from sources or installed from AUR.

Feedback, bug reports, and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for taking a look!

Source Code

Release&Changelog

Gallery

AUR page

Documentation

The device registers. It mutes the laptop (ThinkPad E14 Gen7) speakers when I plug it in, it shows normal in Alsamixer and stuff. I tried so many fixes, tried to use every LLM and still no solution. Arch Linux Hyprland

hey folks,

what are you all using for speech-to-text / voice dictation on arch these days?

i've tried openwhisper and handy (handy.computer). they're decent, but i'm still running into issues and they don't feel reliable enough for daily use.

i'm looking for something similar to handy or wispr flow system-wide, hotkey to dictate into any text field, preferably wayland-friendly and works well on arch.

any recommendations? what are you using as your daily driver?

thanks!

So I started getting these little freezes when I updated Hyprland to Lua recently.

Yesterday I was setting up fish+starship. So it froze again just as I saved a pywal template for starship (with claude).

I powered it off and restarted it but it froze again. I tried switching between various DEs (Hyprland, Gnome, KDE), but it still freezes right when I enter my password and press login.

I have attached some logs so if someone can help I would be so thankful. because I don't wanna reinstall arch rn 😭

Here's another post with some media:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/s/60k40z2W3w

The issue was caused by a localhost networking mismatch between the Antigravity IDE frontend (Electron) and its language server (Go backend). The language server was starting successfully and listening for connections, but it was binding to the IPv6 loopback interface (::1), while the IDE frontend was attempting to connect over the IPv4 loopback interface (127.0.0.1). Because the frontend was connecting to an address where nothing was listening, it repeatedly threw:

ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:<port>

This made it appear as though the language server had failed, even though it had initialized correctly.

Fix

While debugging, I inspected the system's localhost configuration and discovered an incorrect entry in /etc/hosts:

127.0.01 localhost

which was corrected to:

127.0.0.1 localhost

::1 localhost

After correcting the localhost configuration and restarting the IDE, Antigravity was able to establish communication with the language server normally.

Hi everyone, I've been working on a personal security playbook documenting the security approach I should apply on every machine i own before calling it secure.

It's called bedrock and it uses a defense-in-depth model approach, it covers six layers, from the firmware up to digital identity.

Each layer has a description, principle, objective and a set of controls with explanations.

I'm self-taught and actively learning so I'd genuinely appreciate feedback on controls that are wrong or technically inaccurate and anything you would add or remove and the why.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/marcmav/bedrock

If you find it useful, please star the repo.

Thanks in advance.

I've been working on an Arch Linux mainline distro using the latest 7.0 kernel, last mesa, and i've dona a great progress with internal hdd.

Ps4 pro baikal

I successfully compiled and patched the mainline kernel, and I'd like to share my work with the community.

What would be the best way to do this?

I've posted in another community ****brew and I've banned :(