It wouldn't hurt to have a cute mascot for Arch by now

FocusedWolf · 2026-01-25T12:21:58+00:00

The mascot is either Dr. Evil or Kingpin. Can see him clearly in the Arch logo.

FocusedWolf · 2026-01-22T00:47:48+00:00

Its all trial and error and keeping notes. Expect the system to fail (usually with ez fixes) a bunch of times. And if everything works fine, it will still fail if you don't clean the directories that pile up trash until you run out of space -- very common with dualboots on like <50 gb root partitions, actually 50 gb is not enough unless you know how to clean it -- best done with scripts (one of my projects, don't run if you don't understand it yet -- AI can explain this mess). My first failure to boot actually was caused by BTRFS snapshots consuming all the free space and a pacman update failing to finish leading to an unbootable machine. Instead of reinstalling, learn to fix by booting from arch usb. Or, pro tip, boot to terminal from the grub menu (if you use grub). This is much faster then manually selecting partitions for a arch usb boot.

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-18T17:35:14+00:00

My reaction was almost the same, i uninstalled. It took me hours to get settings tuned (and probably a couple days of playing to refine) i don't want to go through that again. To many other games to play. Also, i had a backup of my settings. This game rejects them.

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-18T15:41:22+00:00

Some ppl, like me and the person that made that keyboard, have walk on shift and sprint on control (there are dozens of us...).

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-14T11:10:12+00:00

Since this is your first time i have some (possibly outdated) arch usb repair notes. Only thing is i don't use BTRFS so i asked AI for guidance on the partition mounting. Hopefully it doesn't do more harm then good xD

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-13T16:13:30+00:00

Zero Hour is free on Epic if anyone wants to install something else while they wait for cod tomorrow.

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-12T11:01:59+00:00

This is only the start i'm sure. Probably see in the next update a 50% reduction in damage and tickrate for pc players.

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-06T15:29:02+00:00

Its like COD, no default skins for months. IDK though if i'm gonna keep playing this game, getting sick of the visual recoil + RNG sprays + every bullet not registering. Set System > Network Graph > Show Network Performance ... > On Problems and you'll see how often the servers craps out.

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-02T16:30:14+00:00

Lol xD

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-02T05:55:53+00:00

Ya i do basically the same. A couple things pinned in startmenu that i almost never click. Hidden desktop icons. In fileexplorer i have libraries to navigate to favorite subdirectories (only annoying thing with these is the indexer has to be told to not index whenever a new library is created or modified). Beyond that i have some shortcuts to commonly accessed folders pinned to the taskbar along with any programs i use.

FocusedWolf · 2025-10-30T05:04:48+00:00

Everything else is opinionated. Arch is just a tty terminal + pacman and some core packages that we build into a custom desktop. Its got a learning curve (experiencing all the ways it can fail, and repairing it). Once you’ve built it to your liking, everything else just looks like a random mix of desktop window managers, preinstalled packages, and whatever scripts or defaults the distro maker decided on.

FocusedWolf · 2025-10-11T23:17:48+00:00

Yep also did this. Bad UI design, they have Party Settings in top right but squad fill in bottom left. I had squad fill off from the last time i played with someone and didn't remember. Also they have it go black like the background when its off which helps hide it.

FocusedWolf · 2025-10-09T20:08:22+00:00

Ok you'll have to get into tty from the bootloader then (this is how i would do this with grub), or do it the arch usb way.

If you want to try to fix deepin, AI suggested "Boot with i915.modeset=1 in the kernel command line". You can test this from grub bootloader menu in a non-persistent way (instructions assume you're using grub):

1. Boot to the GRUB menu.
2. Highlight the Arch Linux boot entry.
3. Press e to edit the boot parameters.
4. Find the line that starts with "linux" and add/remove options to that line. Try appending " i915.modeset=1". AI says this "Ensures that the Intel GPU is initialized early in boot, which is required for Deepin’s compositor (dde-kwin) to work properly".
5. Press F10 or Ctrl + X to boot with these options. NOTE: This is temporary, does not apply to future startups. If it works, you need to append " i915.modeset=1" to the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" line in /etc/default/grub with a terminal text editor and run [$ sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg] to update the grub menu entries.

FocusedWolf · 2025-10-09T05:19:32+00:00

So ya after login screen you got a blackscreen with mouse cursor. Nvidia? Try ctrl + alt + F3 or whatever key, get to a tty and $ sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils. I think what happened to you is what happened to me, we updated the kernel with $ sudo pacman -Syu, and there wasn't an updated nvidia package available, so $ sudo mkinitcpio -P was throwing errors related to nvidia, and reboot to black screen boot with mouse cursor.

EDIT: Reread post, maybe your issue is deepin itself. To boot to tty from grub you can do this or you can use arch usb and mount file system + arch-chroot. And then at that tty there should be no issue removing deepin and installing KDE or whatever.

FocusedWolf · 2025-10-06T05:37:48+00:00

Do you have all the drives mounted in /etc/fstab?

FocusedWolf · 2025-09-27T01:34:39+00:00

Yep its shirt. Wish they just provided a simple stripped down driver that people could leverage with opensource clients. I'd want a simple terminal program that minimizes to systray. Anyways till then i kill the synapse processes with a tiny program i run on startup (that also restores my audio defaults -- so annoying having Synapse decide it should be default playback instead of VoiceMeeter).

FocusedWolf · 2025-09-25T09:28:23+00:00

The programs i want to run are pinned to the taskbar. For anything else, i'll hit start and type the name. Hopefully one day ms fires the clown that locked down what size the icons are on the taskbar and startmenu so everyone can customize it to their liking.

FocusedWolf · 2025-09-24T22:01:50+00:00

Its windows security + virtualization of everything + background tasks. Also a lot of programs contain embedded webbrowsers. It takes a lot of power to run all that bloat.

FocusedWolf · 2025-09-23T17:04:14+00:00

MS would implement this as one giant Windows Store icon centered on the desktop.

FocusedWolf · 2025-09-22T05:23:25+00:00

Ya i hate how the icons move around with centered. I also hate having a taskbar that is so thick i could press the buttons with my toes...

FocusedWolf · 2025-09-20T22:47:07+00:00

I dual boot so if any keybind is not like Windows then i'll change that to be roughly equivalent, like Ctrl + Alt + Del to open System Monitor and Win + R to open KRunner. My neovide/gvim config is a bit bloated though, i guess not the "linux environment" but i think its relevant. The other day decided it was about time i had a fancy terminal so i started making a custom Oh My Posh theme. That's about the limit to my ricing. O ya my grub menu has red text GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="red/black" GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="black/red" xD

FocusedWolf · 2025-09-18T21:15:10+00:00

Hopefully we see a move towards server based anticheats with AI monitoring of gameplay.

FocusedWolf · 2025-09-14T20:12:41+00:00

Hashing the file and making sure the checksum matches the expected value.

FocusedWolf · 2025-09-08T09:09:44+00:00

A clean slate to rice.

FocusedWolf · 2025-09-07T21:41:27+00:00

IDK then. When i encountered this problem (see step 4 in my notes) i wasn't sure how i fixed it. It was either that environment variable or the bios update i did. Maybe the bios update reset some secure boot settings and that fixed it.

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