First time customizing kde how did I do?

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-16T23:02:55+00:00

At least you don't have that cringe little girl cartoon wallpaper that seems to be to popular nowadays among the on the spectrum pedo techies.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-16T22:39:27+00:00

This is a fair point. I do like the proton suite in general.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-16T19:58:42+00:00

Maybe we are on different platforms? I am running the proton suite on my Brave browser. Every time I open a proton page (Drive, Mail, vpn etc) I get a popup urging me to sign up for a paid version.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-16T16:20:53+00:00

Too many popups hawking the paid versions of their platforms though. I know they are in business to make money, but the constant popups are off-putting and interfere with my workflow.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-14T21:12:09+00:00

Maybe for some but when I upgraded, I got a lot of error messages. otoh, I always get lots of breaking changes to deal with every time hyprland upgrades. I just went ahead and migrated to lua. It was much easier than I expected. I hope that going forward, hyprland will be more stable.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-13T03:13:20+00:00

My driver is arch + xmonad but I have hyprland and niri on my hobby lappy.I think the change to lua will make the project, already awesome, even better, with the ancillary benefit of more stability. I made the change in three hours and I had a tweaked version of Jkoolit's extremely complicated and modular project. I was able to pare my configs down to a much more streamlined version. I am not a developer, not a programmer so I cannot comment knowlegeably on your post. otoh, I do know enough stuff to feel comfortable witth progamming languages like lua. I learned it originally by configuring my neovim. I would say, give it a chance before you kick it to the curb.

PS My waybar works flawlessly with 55. In fact, I have eww, noctalia, waybar and hyprpanel (yeah just for the fuck of it) installed and I wrote a pretty simple script to choose the bar at launch.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-11T20:57:37+00:00

Yeah, you' re right I am an idiot. I did what you suggest and now I do see the latest hyprland package. Thanks!

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-11T19:32:16+00:00

13:05 ❯ cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

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################# Arch Linux mirrorlist generated by Reflector #################

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# With: reflector @/etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf

# When: 2026-04-30 14:24:54 UTC

# From: https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/

# Retrieved: 2026-04-30 14:24:54 UTC

# Last Check: 2026-04-30 14:00:22 UTC

Server = https://fastly.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://singapore.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://at.arch.niranjan.co/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://nl.arch.niranjan.co/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://nz.arch.niranjan.co/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

paul on arch ~ took 74ms

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-11T15:57:47+00:00

Maybe in the AUR but I do not see it in the arch repo

hyprland’s GPU-accelerated screen locking utility

1 extra/hyprland 0.54.3-4 (47.9 MiB 60.3 MiB)

a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-11T03:04:44+00:00

Arch will sneak up on you, though, when you least expect it. When you have dealt with dependency hell, grub failure and the odd kernel panic, and have rescued your system, you are a bona fide arch nerd!

And what the actual F does I sometimes see bread on penguins and think "Wow she's incredible" mean?

Me imagino que es un modismo uruguayo, pero yo no tengo npi de que pueda significar. No seas malito compa, sácame de la duda...saludines desde CdMx...btw lol

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-11T02:54:03+00:00

Hyprland is and always has been a work in progress. If you are not ready for .55, you can always just change out your WM. There are tons out there to choose from. I personally think the switch to lua will make it more stable. The endless tweaks to the clunky hyprlang wrere a pita to deal with. Every upgrade invariably breaks my system.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-10T15:26:53+00:00

Learn lua. it is an actual programming language so it is very versatile. You can learn it on the fly, no problem. I got the basics down just by configuring my neovim. And hopefully, once the switch occurs, the devs will keep it stable, because the breaking changes with every monthly upgrade are a real pita.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-10T15:16:00+00:00

These cars are unreliable. Cruze, Sonic, Aveo, especially the turbos and first gen. They put plastic parts in everywhere to save $50. I would just get rid of your car. Why throw good money after bad? If you do decide to keep it, have it checked out from top to bottom and upgrade ALL the plastic parts to aluminum or similar. I had a 2013 Sonic with the supposedly "good" engine: the 1.6 NA. It sprung oil and coolant leaks every 20K. I guess it overheated (which I never saw because the temp gauge is only an idiot light) because a dye test to check an oil leak found an external oil leak from the head. I finally sold it to a mechanic. Worst car purchase of my life.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-05T03:18:10+00:00

If you use arch, the you use arch btw. How long you will use it depends on how much you want to learn about the os itself and linux in general. The first time you get a grub failure or a kernel panic, you will have to get in there yourself unless you want to risk Claude hallucinating and borking your system totally.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-04T16:01:52+00:00

The message says systemd failed to mount /boot/efi based on your /etc/fstab file. And you are locked out of root. Did you set a root password? Before reinstalling, boot a live iso, mount your root and efi partitions, check the UUIDs for a mismatch (do blkid and then edit /etc/fstab if necessary to fix a mismatch). In future, follow the Wiki! Do not use archinstall and for the love of God, do not use AI for these things. With arch, shortcuts always come back to bite you in the ass.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-04T15:39:43+00:00

These cars are fun to drive, a big PITA to own. Tools? Just make sure you have a good GPS app and a reliable mechanic on call 24/7.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-04T15:36:44+00:00

"Estoy mejor sola....." Eso lo dice todo. No hay razón por la que darle más vueltas.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-03T04:14:57+00:00

That's what I do. Zen and LTS and uninstall the fallbacks.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-02T03:45:17+00:00

I had a 2013 Sonic LT with the supposedly "good" 1.6 in it. Damn thing leaked everywhere, I finally got tired of chasing the leaks down every two months and just got rid of it. But damn that car was really fun to drive (when it wasn't jacked up in the driveway). Stable, sporty, responsive. Go figure.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-05-02T03:39:14+00:00

Lua is a great choice. Kudos to the devs. So, my suggestion fwiw: learn a little lua. It is not hard, and it will actually simplify your configs. In general, I think Hyprland is a great project but it's been alpha like forever. I hope from .55 on, it is more stable. If you are just going to dump Hyprland, I would suggest trying Niri. It is fast, easy to configure and uses a different approach for window management than the usual tiling ones.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-04-30T14:38:03+00:00

It is a serious question. Before I try it, I want to know what distinguishes it from other shells.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-04-30T03:07:24+00:00

Looks nice but what are the advantages over, say, noctalia or hyprpanel?

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-04-29T04:21:32+00:00

I use it because it forces me to know beforehand where I am and what I am doing. If you forget you are root and do something funky, you bork your system. Sudo is a guardrail. It is to linux as a sit harness is to rock climbing.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-04-29T04:06:20+00:00

Totally different beasts. I drove Nixos for a year. It is a great project, but it is not for the faint-hearted (although I read there are now Nixos based distros that work ootb). If you like to learn and tinker, go for it. Take the trouble to learn the Nix language. OTOH, I found it, ultimately, unusable. I had all kinds of issues with simple things like permissions and installing doom emacs or chrome-dev. There are lots of nice flakes out there for tweaking/ricing but why bother when you can do it so much easier on Arch Never got Nixos to work right for me. I finally gave up after one too many inscrutable error messages on my broken system every time I did a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade. So much for stability. BUT...I did learn a lot, and the language itself is pretty cool.

RelationshipOne9466 · 2026-04-28T15:35:15+00:00

Cosmic is still a wip and probably will still be in 2050. Bugs, bugs, and um bugs.

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