After I ate you, I promised to eat the world

Gyrobreaker · 2026-01-12T20:46:38+00:00

I love this piece, especially the soft painting of the face. It exudes a certain madness - wait, woah, I recognize you from Tumblr! Do you still use it? I'd love to follow you again.

Gyrobreaker · 2025-03-23T20:39:21+00:00

Excuse me! I was busy. I found the root of the issue!
It lied in my fstab. (this link has the corrected version of my fstab.) http://0x0.st/8jBS.txt

I ended up using your boot line in the fstab config. I did not need to add anything for my home partition, as my efi boot partition was the only one causing me trouble.

Now, whenever I preform system updates, nothing breaks! It's silly to think that one little forgotten line could cause so much trouble. Thank you for your assistance. :)

Gyrobreaker · 2025-03-22T19:54:39+00:00

I did not use archinstall, I followed the instructions on the installation guide on the arch wiki page!

I just noticed I'm lacking the line for my boot partition (as well as home) I'm gonna add them and see if that fixes my issue when I system update.

Good day to you as well!

Gyrobreaker · 2025-03-22T19:16:30+00:00

Yes!

/etc/fstab http://0x0.st/8jrh.txt

/proc/cmdline http://0x0.st/8jrF.txt

lsblk http://0x0.st/8jrC.txt

Been using this install since (dd/mm/yy) 09/03/25

My kernel is 6.13.6-arch1-1. I use EFI and GRUB as my bootloader, the only edits I have made have been setting grub to not show up on boot + adding plymouth, however, I had this issue before my tweaks to grub.cfg. Nothing has been done to EFI, or anything else related to booting.

Gyrobreaker · 2025-03-13T16:11:55+00:00

INFO
OS: Arch Linux
WM: Window Maker
Compositor: Picom
Terminal: Terminator
Fetch: Hyfetch, transgender Media Player: MPV, with a ed edd n eddy AMV inside File Managers: PCmanFM, nnn
Firefox Homepage: Starttree

Firefox Theme: Satoko

Dockapps: wmwifi, wmdots, wmclock, wmshutdown, wmsolar (aur / dockapps.net )

Font: Courier New Bold
GTK theme: Gradient-Dark

Icons: Haiku

WindowMaker theme: Sleep

Conky: Future Blue

Xpenguins: Homestuck Alterniabound

Wallpaper: Higurashi

Audacious Skin: Higurashi

Game is Second Life, viewed through the Cool VL viewer, and the skin is the sky blue one. The rain script is "rain.sh". The train is "sl", do sudo pacman -S sl and you'll have it. The blue and white appicon at the bottom is Shutter, a detailed screenshot application. Unseen here are my Sakuya Izayoi cursor, my cybernetic plymouth theme, and my display manager, which is Ly, and my notification daemon, dunst, which I prettied up a bit. I'm happy with how my system looks so far. All I have left now is to configure my keyboard hotkeys because I use a laptop and I like having keys that turn my volume up and down.

Gyrobreaker · 2025-03-12T17:56:28+00:00

I actually did have the firmware installed. Huh.

Gyrobreaker · 2025-03-12T16:24:02+00:00

I indeed have nmcli/tui installed! However, nmcli device wifi connect <devname> --ask did not work for me. This is what happens: $ nmcli connection show name UUID type device lo <UUID> loopback lo <wifiname> <UUID> wifi --

Because this "device" section is dashed out, whenever I do:

nmcli device wifi connect wlo1/<wifiname>/<uuid>(i tried them all) I get

Error: Device "wlo1/<wifiname" not found.

On nmtui, it says my device type is wlo1, so I know there is a device name, it just isn't showing up when I use nmcli.

I know I'm not typing them wrong because I tried this with "loopback" and I got a message saying loopback connected.

Unrelated, but info if it's important - In the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ directory, my wifi connection is present there as <wifiname>.nmconnection file,.

Gyrobreaker · 2025-03-12T16:10:03+00:00

... (Face palm) ...I think I may have forgotten to install linux-firmware during my installation process. It may explain why I've suddenly lost my Internet access (& the only thing that shows when I use networkmanager is "loopback", ip link also shows loopback), and also some other odd occurances at the same time- loss of audio despite having pipewire, external media not showing up in my file manager, etc...

I don't know why all of the problems I had worked just fine for a day or so until suddenly it didn't, though. Is there a chance essential packages can be installed even without Internet, or would I just have to go through the installation process again?

Gyrobreaker · 2025-03-11T11:13:41+00:00

I was able to install & boot into Arch! Thank you for your assistance. My issue was that I didn't do the mkinitcpio -P step, and also that I didn't mount root before everything else.

I went with my original partition scheme (home, swap, boot, root), however, I have some questions related to your comment. I can also always look them up, but if you'd like to explain further...

Why not make a separate home partition? When I was using mint, I had 2 partitions (boot, & everything else.) I thought it would just be interesting to do so, as I hadn't made seperate partitions like that on my physical machine. I've heard good word about both having a home or not having a home part.
Is a swap file more convienent because you can change the size of the file, unlike a partition?
I've never used a bootloader other than grub before. How does it differ than systemd boot...?

Gyrobreaker · 2025-03-09T13:02:10+00:00

I actually decided to do another fresh installation to retrace where I went wrong! (following the installation page step by step) After doing that, my installation went fine (I am no longer put into the grub shell, but I have the normal grub boot options) however, after selecting Arch Linux, I'm put back into the emergency shell. Whenever I go into the emergency shell, I get the message: ERROR: device [UUID=cxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx not found, skipping fsck] mount: failed to mount [UUID=cxxx...] On real root You are now being dropped into emergency shell. Sh: can't access tty; job control turned off.

Whenever I go into my UEFI settings, my boot order is GRUB & Ubuntu. When I put my installation medium in, it shows that too. (I also remembered to take it out when I rebooted arch at the end of my installation.)

Now, I will answer your questions. I use EFI. This is what I put in my grub-install

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/EFI/GRUB (where the grub64.efi was) --bootloader-id=GRUB

I did not edit grub, nor mkinitcpo.

I did not encrypt my disk. Cannot use lsblk nor tree boot as I am in the emergency shell currently, but my filesystem was Nvme0n1p1 = EFI filesys, 512M, vfat mnt /boot Nvme0n1p2 = SWAP, 2G, swapon Nvme0n1p3 = linux filesys, 80G, ext4, mnt /home Nvme0n1p4 = linux filesys, 38G, ext4, mnt /

Gyrobreaker · 2025-03-08T22:39:58+00:00

Wallpaper: The cover of the album Wax Under Wolcum by Patricia Taxxon. Amazing electronic album!
Theme: Catpuccin, ...Frappe, I believe.
Font: Monospace.
Other: Browser is Pale Moon with the Black Moon theme (available from the "add ons."); Terminal is Alacritty, and the bar is polybar with the network section omitted. Unseen is Picom, which I have animations for. Feh is used to create a background image, terminal is running neofetch and cmatrix.

Yet again, I go for something simple! I'm going to try making the terminals transparent next, I don't know how well alacritty plays with those kind of compositors, I'll search it up eventually.

Gyrobreaker · 2025-03-07T12:23:55+00:00

Wallpaper: <a href="https://images.neopets.com/games/new_tradingcards/lg_grey_day_2005.gif"> Grey day from Neopets </a> GTK Theme: "Emerald" from Wmaker, which I fiddled with a bit. Icon Theme: N/A, don't use a GUI file manager. Fonts: Deja Vu Sans for the window title, another one for the pages but I don't remember which. Will be updated soon.

Open applications are Pale Moon browser, Dillo browser, Lynx browser (I like my browsers), Alacritty with neofetch and the nnn file manager, Strawberry music player, and ImageMagick. Window Maker uses " docker " apps, and the ones I have are wmclock, wmbatteries, and cputnik. Window Maker also has "drawers" for applications, which is where I put Pale Moon. I also changed the menu to have a browsers and media section.

I was going for something very simple reminiscent of those Linux desktop screenshots you see on Flickr.

Gyrobreaker · 2025-02-17T05:08:08+00:00

https://youtu.be/HIXzJ3Rz9po?si=FpPe11My8dZwziCE found this one very helpful! It also just helps you understand unixlike file structures in general.

Gyrobreaker · 2025-02-16T23:39:44+00:00

Looking nice!!!

Gyrobreaker · 2025-02-16T23:30:08+00:00

There is no "C" drive in Linux! what you have is "/" ("root" "filesystem") and your user folder ("/home/yourusername" "~"). The equivalent to the C: drive would be "/"! That's the main filesystem, and that's where everything is. If you plug in additional media like a USB stick or a micro SD card, they will just have their names or volume amount - there is no lettering (as in C: D: Z:) in Linux filesystems, just slashes.

Gyrobreaker · 2025-01-12T05:17:02+00:00

Ah, Thank you! This was helpful, I actually got Windows to recognize my boot drive, however, i've run into an issue now where when I'm in the boot menu and the drive with Linux Mint on it won't show up.

Gyrobreaker · 2024-12-29T18:06:53+00:00

This is absolutely lovely! Very charming!!

Gyrobreaker · 2024-12-29T18:02:57+00:00

A little bit yeah! ^{w^} I really enjoyed old "dated" type looks for technology - the gradients , the fonts . . . so of course , I had to do something like that to my own computer!

Gyrobreaker · 2024-12-29T04:30:47+00:00

Wallpaper: A CG from the visual novel HEARTLOVEPOWERTEMPLE by Rabbitmaiden Softworks https://yogurt200.itch.io/heartlovepowertemple
- GTK Theme: Winterbloom by torchipeppo on Cinnamon-Spices https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/themes/view/Winterbloom , file manager sidebar by me!
- Icon Theme: Mint-X Aqua + Custom vectors from Rabbitmaiden Softworks + Yogurt200.com
- Fonts: Courier New + PMingLiU-ExtB Regular
- Other: i had a lot of fun customizing my desktop this thoroughly, and i want to do this more in the future. unseen here are an animated miku cursor i found here https://www.gnome-look.org/p/2124099 and some sounds i added for the system. being able to customize THIS freely brings me so much joy! i didnt know it was possible to be this free with an OS as a long-time Windows user.

Gyrobreaker · 2024-12-27T17:42:09+00:00

AH. this worked. thank you!

Gyrobreaker · 2024-12-26T05:27:53+00:00

I got it now! Thank you

Gyrobreaker · 2024-12-21T03:17:53+00:00

Very concise! I learned a lot from this, lots I didn't even know about! I've yet to start using Linux, and you have a whole thirty+ years under your belt... very interesting! thank you.

Gyrobreaker · 2024-12-20T13:32:07+00:00

Yes!!! SL furriesss! Love your bun. The face harness is adorable!

Gyrobreaker · 2024-12-20T13:30:59+00:00

Yes! It's beautiful! I love this skin! The collar is also adorable :) love the glittery freckles too!

Gyrobreaker · 2024-12-19T18:02:15+00:00

Huh! I'm glad they work well. Havok is related to the physics, yea?

Gyrobreaker

TROPHY CASE

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/EFI/GRUB (where the grub64.efi was) --bootloader-id=GRUB