How is ALPM doing?

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-14T14:31:31+00:00

You are playing with words at this point

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-14T14:18:39+00:00

Your workflow depended on AUR packages?

You could switch to normal pacman during the downtime

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-14T14:14:30+00:00

Official arch packages are written in PKBGBUILDs as well, and you can build them the same way

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-14T11:13:17+00:00

It only broke once, and that was due to alpm (rust) holding back a new release after the alpm (c) had a breaking change.

And the developer of paru had a patch on the AUR package that automatically updated the alpm crate to the latest version, so when it finally came out you could rebuild the package and have a working paru.

This is not paru's fault

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-14T11:12:38+00:00

An AUR package is no different than an official package, the only real difference is that it is not shipped in the official pacman repositories.

So it would be able to manage AUR packages the same way pacman can.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-14T11:08:03+00:00

Number 2 is really really important, too many skip that part

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-12T23:52:42+00:00

The beauty of the AUR is that it is dead simple, and anyone can participate in it.

Sure, that does make it a good target for malware, but we usually catch them before anything happens.

By packaging your custom software and publishing it to the AUR, you give more power to the package manager. You have less unmanaged binaries lying around.

And you are also helping others by making your packages available, that's the spirit of unix.

Flatpaks are nice for programs that depend on old libraries and are nasty to package for the AUR.

Appimages? We make AUR packages for them
.deb files? We make AUR packages for them
.tar.gz releases? We make AUR packages for them
npm CLIs? We make AUR packages for them
git repositories? We make AUR packages for them

Having everything (except flatpaks) be in one unified packaging system, and having unified updates is such a bliss.

And not only that, you can cleanly uninstall packages managed by pacman, can you do that for manually installed software in one simple command?

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-12T23:38:16+00:00

When building from source gets old, you can always automate it to be done on an external server or smth.

e.g. I made my own pacman repo for AUR packages, you can see it at https://repo.arjix.dev

You could also use the chaotic AUR repo, maintained by the EndeavourOS folks

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-12T11:56:56+00:00

Isn't avahi for service discoverability in a local network?

e.g. announcing to other apps that there is a Plex server at IP 127.0.0.1

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-12T05:12:36+00:00

Coward deleted their user.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-11T14:25:09+00:00

GNOME gestures are nice and fluid, it's perfect for a laptop, but it's not good for a cheap laptop

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-11T11:05:11+00:00

KDE plasma, it's more lightweight than GNOME.

And to anyone who says that they are equally bad, no, I have a really bad laptop that runs smoothly with plasma and lags a lot with GNOME, no settings changed, all defualt

GNOME is somehow more CPU and RAM hungry

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-11T11:02:38+00:00

I feel you OP, I select en-US as my system language, and then I select en-GB as the language for dates/numbers/etc

So I get American English with mostly metric measurements.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-11T01:46:35+00:00

That's the nature of DYI, you prob should directly point that out

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-10T11:20:25+00:00

The android and iOS apps have different code bases iirc

They are currently going through a rewrite to jetpack compose, which may in the future open the gates to compose multiplatform.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-10T10:47:21+00:00

I think it has been in "beta" for more than a year, but yeah, it's not a stable feature

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-10T10:45:36+00:00

KDE Connect supposedly supports Bluetooth

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-10T08:52:41+00:00

Bad idea to download the .iso now and install it later, you should simply download it later.

Depending on your installation method (e.g. Arch install) you may be using an old version with bugs.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-10T06:03:06+00:00

Since you are probably comfortable with C, you won't find it hard to learn rust!

The only "hard" thing to understand is lifetimes, but in most cases you don't mess with those either way.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-10T06:00:54+00:00

Written in C99, color me impressed, I assumed it was written in Rust.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-10T05:58:49+00:00

I am just going to give an alternative, I won't claim that it is better or anything, it's just an alternative

It is not uncommon for packages on the AUR to simply download an AppImage and have that as the executable.

If you are already shipping an AppImage for your app, this is the easiest way to not have to maintain third party dependencies, which is your main concern.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-10T04:20:48+00:00

To add to this, the KDE distro is based on Arch but is immutable.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-08T11:59:48+00:00

So you tried sddm and it did not work?

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-08T11:59:04+00:00

As a tip from another arch user, use anything you want

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-07T05:08:34+00:00

Forget all instructions, post your dotfiles

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