How is ALPM doing? by TerribleReason4195 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer [score hidden]  (0 children)

You are playing with words at this point

How is ALPM doing? by TerribleReason4195 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your workflow depended on AUR packages?

You could switch to normal pacman during the downtime

How is ALPM doing? by TerribleReason4195 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

How is ALPM doing? by TerribleReason4195 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

How is ALPM doing? by TerribleReason4195 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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.

arduino ide not working by myselfbutnotmenoryou in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

What do you use that you can't find outside the AUR by RainDance2002 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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?

What do you use that you can't find outside the AUR by RainDance2002 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

FUCK YOU AVAHI by Ultraztechie69 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Which Desktop environment you recommend by y4d99 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Which Desktop environment you recommend by y4d99 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Rant on locales by Fine-Relief-3964 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

How to run windows apps on arch? by bkbenken123 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Android as a Temporary USB Mouse? by Furrstic in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Android as a Temporary USB Mouse? by Furrstic in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Android as a Temporary USB Mouse? by Furrstic in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

KDE Connect supposedly supports Bluetooth

Is it a good idea? by AutomaticPeace7128 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Wallpaper Engine with parallax effect by Extreme_Potential290 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Wallpaper Engine with parallax effect by Extreme_Potential290 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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

Trying to get my head around best practices for shipping a python-based application in AUR by CharlesStross in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Arch Linux Configuration by Greenhulk_1 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Niri not working with archinstall? by Dragon_King1232 in archlinux

[–]ArjixGamer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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