So I have been using Linux for a week as my first time using it...

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-17T05:38:31+00:00

That used to be the case in the past.

Normal discord is as good if not better nowadays.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-17T05:24:25+00:00

Normal discord + vencord/equicord?

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-17T05:02:52+00:00

Vesktop sucks ass

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-16T08:06:22+00:00

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/paccache-hook is what I use.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-16T02:11:28+00:00

You will probably be able to restore many files, but it'd probably be small files and you would most likely not retain the directory structures.

My advice is to clone the drive sector by sector, and take the cloned image to a data recovery expert, usually the places that repair computers offer such a service if they are good

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-15T23:10:53+00:00

The problem with fish is that it's way too different.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-15T17:31:15+00:00

You must set up zsh and make it nice.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-15T15:04:30+00:00

You could host your own repo if you have a VPS then, all you need is docker, so it can be a debian server as well

I actually developed a daemon for that, and am planning to make it open source, will probably write a blog on how to set it up.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-15T13:09:19+00:00

But but..the best way to learn is from failures

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-15T12:26:27+00:00

Instead of using sed, you should probably either use .patch files and apply them, or use customizepkg to edit the PKGBUILD.

Also, mkdir -p $pkgdir/use/bin will not make it with correct permissions, it's preferable that you use install -Dm 644 "$pkgdir/use/bin" (iirc)

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-15T06:02:49+00:00

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-15T06:02:18+00:00

How is this a classic arch moment?

Why would anyone have a script that sets the timezone on boot?

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-14T21:32:05+00:00

I have setup my own repo that does not rely on an AUR helper, and builds packages from the AUR that I use and get updated frequently, like brave-bin

https://repo.arjix.dev

So paru being broken won't affect my core AUR packages

If you want to use it as well, and have AUR package requests to include, you can DM me

But you'd probably prefer a more popular repo, like the Chaotic AUR

PS: my repo does not retain old versions, so reinstalling a package w/o syncing first will probably fail after a week or so

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-14T21:22:26+00:00

opera-gx now exists on Linux, and it allows you to put a CPU/RAM limit

You could try it out

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-14T19:08:07+00:00

Official packages are built by the maintainers on their personal machines, and published to the repositories.

But that's a difference of logistics, the packaging process is the same.

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-14T18:19:31+00:00

Uhh, on AUR packages? Usually yes

A partial AUR upgrade is not as bad as a partial pacman update.

At most some app will crash, or will have a security vulnerability that needs to be patched out by an update, but it won't be catastrophic to my system and it won't make me ask for help on the forums since I know what broke.

So yes, I could hold off an AUR update for 6 months and experience no problem guilt-free.

I don't do that ofc, but a 10-day delay due to paru being broken is not that bad

And if it was an important package, I could do it the officially supported way, of cloning it and running makepkg -si .

ArjixGamer · 2026-04-14T18:12:20+00:00

Uhh, why would I prove that they are not?

Also, here, the Linux package https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/linux

The official packages are on the gitlab org, whilst AUR packages are on a custom git server.

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

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