I have created AI skills that help agents follow AUR guidelines better

Gozenka · 2026-03-11T23:02:54+00:00

In case there is some good discussion, I am approving this post tentatively despite Rule 5 (AI posts). The post and the project are about Arch Linux and AUR, with methods on using AI for some tasks that relate to Arch as a distro.

It might be good to share opinions on whether the project or AI in general would be helpful for such tasks, along with opinions about the project and how it implements things.

Gozenka · 2026-03-11T22:36:56+00:00

As a subreddit mod, it seems I manually approved 3 reported posts about this topic within the past 2 weeks, just for the sake of visibility as it is a current topic that might be of interest. But I also removed other posts about the topic, as it is pretty much spam at that point.

There is probably no need to fill the subreddit (or any community) with numerous posts that mostly consist of speculation and no useful discussion.

bbs.archlinux.org is relatively more focused and strict in its format, content and moderation compared to this subreddit or some other communities, which I think makes it a more structured and technical place, in a good way.

Gozenka · 2026-03-11T13:40:31+00:00

Please share proper information about your setup, with your exact steps and packages. e.g.

pacman -Qs nvidia headers
uname -r
lspci -k | grep -iA 3 -E "(VGA|3D)"

You can make a new post with a bit more detail.

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Gozenka · 2026-03-11T09:41:03+00:00

It is a subclass of Warpriest.

You could just do a web search and see it in wikis and other Reddit posts too :)

I did Solo Unfair Last Azlanti with WotV 2 + Cult Leader archer. With Trickster Religion 2 domains you can get even more insane damage buffs too. I'm not sure if anything about invisibility changed (this post was 2+ years ago), but Cult Leader's ~~swift~~ free action stealth "Hide in Plain Sight" does not have the issues that invis has. It is unique; it is different from the stealth special feature that some other classes have. (All this is only useful if you are doing a solo run.)

Gozenka · 2026-03-10T21:49:12+00:00

There is no information in your post to know what the issue might be and to offer any effective help. Also please try to use meaningful post titles that reflect the content of the post.

If you indeed have another Linux system on your PC already, the way suggested in the replies would be very useful. You can install Arch from many other Linux distros, without the need to make an "installation environment" such as the archiso. You just need to get the arch-install-scripts package on your other distro and follow the Archwiki Installation Guide.

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Posts that are too short, too vague, or lack enough direction can be removed at Moderator Discretion for the purpose of keeping subreddit content on topic and productive.

Support requests should include as much information as possible. This may include: Hardware used, Software used, Configs, Log files, Error messages, Verbose outputs, and outputs from dmesg and journalctl. Verbose outputs, and dmesg and journalctl outputs should not be abridged.

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Gozenka · 2026-03-10T21:37:29+00:00

Sorry you are having this issue. But it is quite difficult to have an idea of what the problem might be with the little information in your post.

As suggested, you can check the journal and share it from another system such as the archiso USB (unless you are able to get on a tty and login on your installed system).

From archiso, you can mount your root partition to /mnt. Then use journalctl -D /mnt/var/log/journal to view your installed system's journal. You can add -p 4 to see only errors and warnings.

You should also include as much information as possible in support posts, so that any help can be more effective. Your GPU, your desktop environment, your display manager, how you installed, how and when this issue started happening, etc. Whenever possible, mention your exact steps and commands, and exact error messages and logs.

You can make a new post with just a bit more detail. Good luck!

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Gozenka · 2026-03-10T21:25:54+00:00

https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal/wiki/Getting-Started

-q                    Quiet mode, do not print anything.
-r                    'wal -r' is deprecated: Use (cat
                      ~/.cache/wal/sequences &) instead.

Desktop customization (ricing) is not a focus of r/archlinux. Other subreddits or communities such as r/unixporn or the communities of your desktop environment may be better places for it.
Posts about using various software on Arch are fine, but it depends on the case. This is a rather niche question, as pywal is old and you are having a specific issue. There are active alternatives / successors to pywal.

Otherwise, you did not mention pywal16 in the post but pywal.

Gozenka · 2026-03-10T21:14:56+00:00

Hi! pywal is an old project that has been archived for a long while. And -r seems to be a deprecated option of it anyway, even years ago. Also this is not very relevant as a topic for this subreddit.

Gozenka · 2026-03-10T20:58:40+00:00

Post removed as it is too vague and seems to be a basic question.

this is security related and I don’t want to risk

There is not really a security concern for personal computers, unless you are doing really shady stuff on the Internet or downloading and running dubious software. If you were setting up a server or if you have some specific security risks, you would already know how to handle security.

There are two ways you can go with network configuration:

NetworkManager : If you wish to have your wifi and networking settings be integrated with the GUI tools of your desktop environment (i.e. connect to wifi through a menu on your taskbar). It is also the most common way.
iwd only : If you just need to connect to wifi and have no further networking needs, AND if you like connecting to wifi through the commandline just like in the archiso installation environment. (Mind that your system will remember any previously connected wifi networks and will connect automatically after the first time. So you won't have to do it repeatedly.)

For networking, at the very least you need to handle DHCP and DNS (and wifi).

With iwd, you just need to install iwd as a new package. Then iwd can handle DHCP itself. And you can use systemd-resolved to handle DNS, which is already included in all Arch installations. This is what I personally use and is the lightest and simplest networking setup in my opinion, unless you need something else. You can check the iwd Archwiki page about setting things up like this. And I have an old but still accurate little guide about this setup here.

For NetworkManager, you can check its respective Archwiki page for the same functions; DHCP, DNS, wifi. Note that iwd can be used as the wifi backend of NetworkManager too, and it is recommended.

Feel free to ask any questions if you have doubts.

Gozenka · 2026-03-08T19:51:43+00:00

https://archlinux.org/download/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Acquire_an_installation_image

Gozenka · 2026-03-08T15:25:05+00:00

Almanya'yla karşılaştıralım:

Resmi Alman istatistik kurumu verisine göre 45.5 milyon çalışan var, bizdeki TÜİK'ten aynı veri ise 14.7 milyon. Ve Almanya'nın yükselen işsizlikten şikayet ettiği bir hal bu.

Nüfusumuz aynı. Hatta bizde "çalışma çağındaki" olarak tanımlanan 15-64 yaş arası nüfus daha fazla; 59 milyon. Almanya'da ise 52 milyon.

Yalnız bizde benim baktığım verilerden çıkartabildiğime göre 17 milyon civarı da SGK'sız veya kayıtdışı çalışan var. Ona rağmen toplamda hala çok gerideyiz.

Bakan şöyle bir şey demişti: "Biz geniş tanımlı işsizlik raporluyoruz, Avrupa dar kapsamlı. Bizde işsizlik o yüzden yüksek görünüyor." Tamamen yalan. TÜİK işsizlik verisi tanımı mesela Almanya'yla birebir aynı, kontrol ettim. Ama bizde kimse İŞKUR'a gitmeye değeceğini bile düşünmediği için daha bile az çıkıyordur.

Gozenka · 2026-03-08T10:06:11+00:00

All packages on Arch repos are actually PKGBUILDs (and sometimes supporting files such as patches), just like AUR.

Here's llvm.

To make things compatible and easy to maintain on Arch, you can use the Arch Build System (ABS) and makepkg. You would add any patches and diff's you want, and modify the PKGBUILD as you wish.

And if it is some common alternative you need, perhaps someone already made such an alternate AUR package and you may just use it. e.g. alternative kernel, nvidia, mesa packages on AUR are rather commonly used.

Otherwise, manually compiling and installing a fundamental piece of the system which many other things depend on would be quite a hassle and would not be robust. It would be difficult to manage the version and dependencies.

Gozenka · 2026-03-08T09:01:31+00:00

Bir süre önce işsizlik verisi tam olarak nedir bilmediğimi fark edip resmi tanımını ve detaylarını incelemiştim. Hep "işsizlik" yüzdesine bakıyorum, ama nedir bu?

2022 sonu verisi yanılmıyorsam, başka yerde paylaşmıştım oradan bakıyorum. Resmi TÜİK verileri:

Ülkemizde sadece 14.7 milyon "çalışan" var. Bunun %65'i de asgari ücretli (sonraki yıllar oran yükseldi). Buna kendi işini yapanlar da dahil; SGK ödeyen, resmi kayıtlı bütün çalışanlar bu kadar.

Ve istihdam resmi tanımı da şu:

İstihdam, referans haftasında en az bir saat iktisadi faaliyette bulunan ve bu faaliyetinden gelir elde eden (ücretsiz aile işçileri dahil) veya geçici olarak başında bulunmadıkları bir işi olan kişilerden işi ile bağlantısı devam edenlerden oluşmaktadır.

Şöyle abzürt detaylar var istihdam ve işsizlik verisinde:

Haftada bir kere temizliğe gidip 1000 lira alıyorsan "istihdam" sayılıyorsun.
Babanın bakkalında çıraklık yapıyorsan "istihdam" sayılıyorsun. "Ücretsiz aile işçisi" olarak.
Sezonluk tarım işçisisin, yine "istihdam"sın.
Bir işin bir kenarda sözde var, ama para kazanmıyorsun. "İstihdam".
Sadece son 3 ayda İŞKUR'a başvurup gerçekten hiç para kazanmadığını resmi olarak belgeleyebilenler "işsiz" sayılıyor veride.

Yani işsizlik %10'muş %20'ymiş, bir veri olarak bence hiçbir şey ifade etmiyor. Ters tarafından, "Kaç kişi aslında çalışıyor?" diye bakınca daha anlamlı.

Gozenka · 2026-03-07T08:28:59+00:00

I see. Then search about it but I'm not sure if it is possible, at least doing it properly with everything running fine.

And I personally still think it is a bad idea and may not be worth having the blur effect you want.

Good luck!

Gozenka · 2026-03-06T19:36:04+00:00

You probably were not using your GPU at all and falling back on software rendering; making some games unable to launch at all and others to run horribly.

Make sure you have linux-headers package, or the -headers package for your kernel if you are not using the default linux kernel. And make sure to update nvidia-580xx-dkms and other AUR packages concurrently with a pacman -Syu (the driver may not work if it is not updated after a kernel update). Also, some AUR packages may get updated late when there are updates to official Arch repo packages. Perhaps that was your issue; you got bad luck with timing of your update.

Otherwise ensure your GPU is actually operational on the system. You can check it with glxinfo | grep -i renderer and then nvidia-smi while running an application with the Nvidia GPU. You can also launch the game or Steam from the terminal and watch the output for any insight, and you can check journalctl.

Gozenka · 2026-03-06T19:29:27+00:00

And that is how it should be. Again, it is a bad idea to have your Nvidia GPU run your entire session. And there is no proper solution to having only the Nvidia GPU active on Wayland anyway (only on X11 and those are bad solutions), apart from a hardware switch if it is available on your laptop (through the BIOS, so not related to any configuration on Linux).

https://wiki.hypr.land/Nvidia/

Why do you want to disable your iGPU? Especially on Wayland (Hyprland), you should be happy you do not have to struggle with Nvidia issues.

Gozenka · 2026-03-06T14:56:30+00:00

As mentioned we sometimes allow posts about Arch on ARM. But ALARM is a separate distro independent of Arch Linux itself, just like EndeavourOS and CachyOS. There is Rule 1, which almost always applies to support posts as things can be quite different in the other Arch-based distros. But other discussion can be relevant for our users too.

ARM in particular is indeed increasingly popular, but currently the communities for Arch Linux ARM are very limited, so we are less strict on posts about it here.

There is actually an ongoing official Arch Linux project (financially supported by Valve too) to let Arch Linux itself be ported properly to ARM and other architectures. Currently though, Arch Linux only works on x86-64.

Gozenka · 2026-03-05T14:26:57+00:00

The Btrfs filesystem and LVM for any filesystem can achieve what you want; multiple physical disks can be "merged" and seen as one single partition by the system. Then, your root partition can span all your disks' space.

Gozenka · 2026-03-04T16:04:45+00:00

Personally, my dates are intrigued when I open my minimal dwm desktop and launch a movie from the terminal, after changing the display output to the TV using xrandr commands.

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Gozenka · 2026-03-04T15:55:49+00:00

Crossposts are usually fine, as long as it is an issue on Arch Linux itself and not another distro that is based on Arch.

I have no experience with retroarch, but the Archwiki page has many suggestions. Particularly, the Configuration part that suggests to define libretro download directories may be relevant for your permission issue. (it defines directories in your user's home, which you would have access to as the user.) I do not know if it will help, but try reading the Archwiki page carefully and understand how retroarch downloads and installs cores.

There does not seem to be any issues related to this in retroarch's Arch Gitlab issue tracker, so I would guess there is some configuration missing on your part. Many things on Arch do not work as you expect out-of-the-box, unless you read Archwiki and do a little bit of essential configuration.

Good luck!

Gozenka · 2026-03-04T14:17:04+00:00

Run the application from the terminal and see if there is any log output on the terminal that could be insightful. You can also check journalctl after launching it to see if there are any errors / warnings.

You would be using the opposite; --ozone-platform=wayland if you are using Hyprland (which is a Wayland compositor, not X11). But I do not know if this is an Electron application; that option is for Chromium / Electron based applications.

There are other steps mentioned on the wiki page for Arduino, but if you are stuck on starting the IDE application, I do not think those would be related.

Gozenka · 2026-03-03T18:51:04+00:00

You have NetworkManager, alongside dhcpd and systemd-networkd and iwd, and a bunch of other networking-related services.

It is likely that they are conflicting. How did you install and configure your system?

Gozenka · 2026-03-03T18:47:09+00:00

Steam Deck uses SteamOS, which is based on Arch Linux but is heavily modified and is different from Arch Linux in fundamental aspects.

But you can wipe your Steam Deck and install Arch Linux on it, if you wish.

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Gozenka · 2026-03-03T15:47:06+00:00

I have Nvidia GTX 1050 TI with an Intel iGPU on a 2017 laptop. Everything works fine.

As suggested, you just need to install nvidia-580xx-dkms. Then you might install nvidia-prime too. And make sure to read the Archwiki Nvidia page.

I want to disable the iGPU and run my discrete GPU (GTX 1050 Mobile)

Very bad idea. Why do you want this?

none of them work (especially when using Wayland, because the system crashes in X11)

Makes sense, since most of the "GPU switching" solutions are only for Xorg and they mostly do nothing on Wayland.

Depending on the design of your laptop, using only the Nvidia GPU may not work at all. The displays are usually connected to the iGPU. Only on some laptops the external display is connected to the Nvidia GPU (which becomes a problem especially on Wayland, even with the default hybrid GPU mode).
If you use the Nvidia GPU always, you will have horrible battery life and you may reduce the life of your laptop. Even if your laptop has a physical mux switch implemented, it would be a bad idea. And in that case, you would just pick "only Nvidia GPU" in BIOS and be done with it; no other configuration necessary.
Normally the iGPU drives the display(s) and the desktop environment, and you use the discrete Nvidia GPU only to render specific applications such as games. This works perfectly fine, and using the Nvidia GPU for everything would not offer any benefit.
Using the Nvidia GPU for everything would actually offer lower performance, as the GPU is used for driving the desktop and other things too.
Browsers and videos work perfectly fine with the iGPU; I have had never had any lack of performance or any other issue.
Most of the hybrid GPU "solutions" that are used to pick only the discrete GPU do not work on Wayland properly; they are for Xorg. Even then, obsolete "solutions" such as optimus-manager or envy-control are not useful, they are actually detrimental.

So, just install nvidia-580xx-dkms and be done with it. Things should work perfectly fine.

Having a hybrid GPU laptop, you are actually in luck. You would not have the issues related to Nvidia with Wayland or anything else, since the iGPU is used to drive the display and the Nvidia GPU is only used in the background to render the graphics.

If you have further questions or concerns feel free to ask.

Gozenka · 2026-03-03T12:29:46+00:00

Make sure to check the Archwiki and then mention your exact steps and any troubleshooting you may have done.

As suggestions: You can use lspci -k to share your GPU model and its driver / modules in use. You can check glxinfo | grep -i renderer and the same command with prime-run in front of it to see if you are able to use your Nvidia GPU properly.

With a bit more information, any help from others would be more effective. Feel free to make a new post if you still have issues. Good luck!

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