no worries and best of luck!

ah thank you for calling that out👍

pacman -Sy is definitely a mistake and you are correct in that it should be -S <packages> or -Syu

I’ve edited my previous comment to reflect this thank you!

while I’m not sure about the tiling WM front I can help with the KDE optimization on Arch part:

To preface I’m sharing sections of my Bash script that I’m in the process of eventually releasing under AGPL-3.0 which should help explain the editing/verboseness of them.

For base/minimal Arch Linux Packages:

## `btrfs-progs` is dependent/only required if you use BTRFS as your file system.
## `grub` is also dependent if you use GRUB instead of Systemd as your init system.
## intel-ucode replaces amd-ucode (as discerned from your comment on this post) which installs Intel-based microcode for your processor/CPU.
pacstrap -K /mnt intel-ucode base base-devel btrfs-progs efibootmgr grub iptables-nft linux linux-firmware linux-lts man nano networkmanager pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse sudo

For Installing Core Packages

### grub-btrfs is omitted as it is orphaned as of Sept 3, 2024. https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/grub-btrfs/.
pacman -S --needed bash-completion cryptsetup dnsmasq e2fsprogs efibootmgr firewalld man-db networkmanager sddm sddm-kcm

KDE Focused Packages

## Installing plasma Group Packages
## https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/plasma/
pacman -S --needed breeze breeze-gtk discover drkonqi kactivitymanagerd kde-cli-tools kde-gtk-config kdecoration kdeplasma-addons kgamma kglobalacceld kinfocenter kmenuedit kpipewire kscreen kscreenlocker ksystemstats kwallet-pam kwayland kwin kwrited layer-shell-qt libkscreen libksysguard libplasma milou plasma5support plasma-activities plasma-activities-stats plasma-desktop plasma-disks plasma-firewall plasma-integration plasma-nm plasma-systemmonitor plasma-thunderbolt plasma-vault plasma-workspace plasma-workspace-wallpapers polkit-kde-agent powerdevil qqc2-breeze-style systemsettings xdg-desktop-portal-kde

## Installing kde-applications Group Packages
## https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/kde-applications/
pacman -S --needed dolphin kate kmix konsole kwalletmanager

AMD GPU Related Packages

## Installing Video Drivers
## FOSS AMD GPU Drivers
## Please see the table on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg
pacman -S --needed mesa vulkan-radeon libva-mesa-driver mesa-vdpau xf86-video-amdgpu

## Enable the multilib repository for 32-bit application support:
sed -i "/\[multilib\]/,/Include/"'s/^#//' /etc/pacman.conf

## To enable 32-bit application support, the multilib repository is enabled by default using the sed command above. This allows the necessary drivers to be installable from the multilib repository.
pacman -S --needed lib32-mesa lib32-libva-mesa-driver lib32-vulkan-radeon lib32-mesa-vdpau
## Owners of older AMD graphics cards (GCN 1&2) may also want to install the ATI driver:
#pacman -S --needed xf86-video-ati

Some packages were omitted from the installation lines above as this was taken from my custom installer for self-hosting services.
I’d recommend checking the links provided above to to figure out what additional packages you want for yourself🤗

If you still have issues with KDE X11/Wayland on Arch or Ubuntu, feel free to DM me and I’ll try my best to help👍

Old RuneScape Soundtrack: Sea Shanty2

I’ve seen people do a similar thing with a separate encrypted home partition which is decrypted by a key stored in your encrypted root.

Do you happen to have a link to this?

However, I’d strongly recommend you use an LVM on LUKS setup (this is what I do). That way you decrypt one partition and you don’t have to mess around with keyfiles. #LVM_on_LUKS

Looking at the wiki it seems doable (in relation to revising my script) and as far as I can tell the tradeoffs seems better than #LUKS on a partition

much appreciated for the recommendation!

licenseless? 🤔
these sorts of things tend to sketch me out but giving a +1 as someone smarter than me will know if this is trustworthy

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the best thing to do is download and torrent to preserve humanity’s wealth in knowledge otherwise we risk losing immeasurable treasures to the sands of time

Personal recommendation:
qBittorrent

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• Licensed under: GPL-2.0 and GPL-3.0

🫡🤗

it’s definitely having an impact on my customers as they’re concerned about staying on Windows

the biggest blocker for them is Windows app parity on Linux

I just converted a Windows user to PopOS this week so I’m doing my part🫡

thanks for the criticism!

The Gentoo wiki used to be the gold standard, even for non-Gentoo users, but it was an unofficial wiki and a hard-drive crash (if memory serves) killed it with no backups. It was mostly restored with help after that.

Rip, it would’ve been nice if Gentoo’s docs were better than/highly competitive against Arch’s docs. As a fan of Arch I often refer people over to the Arch Wiki however there are instances when I or my customers encounter incomplete/missing sections that then requires us to scour through SO or other forums for troubleshooting

By default, Gentoo uses the older sysvinit system

Weird to put it this way, since Gentoo is well known for its use of OpenRC which is what you’d use instead of systemd. Both are common on Gentoo systems.

Yeah I also found that really odd as it made me question if I remembered OpenRC being an Init system or not

I’m stopping here - the whole article feels off, perhaps it’s AI-written?

it seems likely, although I can’t confirm for sure as I only have hands-on exp with Arch either way

I’d recommend finding a better source.

I’m def gonna have to find better sources👍💯

this got me interested in trying Gentoo out and I searched what differences exist between Arch and Gentoo:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/arch-vs-gentoo-linux-distributions

• does anyone know how accurate this article is?

Losing Naomi Wu to the CCP was a catastrophic loss to the FOSS community, I remember that she once went directly to confront a company (I think located in China) to demand for the release of their modified version of a copyleft software

I hope she’s still alive and doing well

makes sense to me, funding KDE means better and still FOSS apps🤌✨

as long as the donation prompts are unobtrusive I see no problem with it

Edit:

From 6.2 onwards, Plasma itself will show a system notification asking for a donation once per year, in December

yup totally fair👍

Linus is the head of Linux because he’s trustworthy and acts responsibly (esp more so nowadays than previously)

If at any point he were to act in a way that tarnishes the trust built behind Linux, I wouldn’t be surprised if fellow maintainers forked Linux just like Redis and decided to put their weight behind the new project

Same like me or any of the mods or admins here; I would hope my ass gets banned faster than the speed of light if I were to ever act irresponsibly with mod/admin powers

“Remember, with great power comes great responsibility.” - Uncle Ben

This is a poor posture from Kent

It’s fine to have something buggy but pissing off Linus Torvalds is probably not the best idea, perhaps a bit of introspection might be the best course of action before sending another hasty message

From the wise words of Jack Stauber:
But it feels better to check than to reflect~

not sure about the majority of the software but I’d recommend FreeCad as an alt to Solidworks

• I’ve heard they’re about to hit their 1.0 release sometime in the near future

I’m not quite sure what’s going on so I shared this directly in our admin chat

hopefully we’ll have an answer for this sometime today👍

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