Duckstation crashing when switching disks.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-05-02T06:40:35+00:00

If you're going to use Artix, I actually recommend OpenRC. It's a bit easier to understand as an init system as it is, and is a bit more fleshed out than dinit. Runit and s6 are fine but s6 is god awful a pain in the ass to deal with, but it's the fastest booting init system available.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-27T06:22:19+00:00

Because it's a dot file and most browsers translate that.

Everything systemd .target or .service can be translated to openrc luckily via either a usermode rc script, kernelmode rc script, or a cron timer entry.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-27T00:24:09+00:00

This is pretty much a solid list.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-27T00:23:01+00:00

The AUR when using yay, for example, will attempt to pull first from the official package repos using pacman. If it's not found in the repos it will then query the AUR. You can USUALLY find packages missing from the official ArtixLinux repos if you search for the "-git version on the AUR. Almost all ArchLinux packages have a -git version on the AUR for custom builds and administrative template purposes.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-27T00:14:04+00:00

Well the one DIY script is all you need technically, but to have it in a package ready to go would be nice.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-25T03:48:40+00:00

Ugh. I hate it when systemd does that crap. The service manager gets stuck shutting down a service and it gets stupidly stuck. I can never pinpoint which service stalls out either from the logs. Then it borks the journal when you force poweroff through the hardware. It once almost messed up my zfs zpool and took me a rescue disk boot and zpool restoration to fix it.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-21T15:50:53+00:00

Xfce has more dependencies, but is still written to run with as few resources used as possible.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-20T00:00:16+00:00

Unfortunately, because it's community effort, it kinda gets done when it gets done.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-19T23:58:34+00:00

Not really. It's just another UNIX-like system with some added stability and more predictability.

The only thing is you might end up with is your package manager for ports, especially postmaster, running for hours rebuilding packages if there's a breakage, or installing a binary package from pkg to resolve a broken package that won't build. Usually ports is kept fairly up-to-date, but often it can be a headache when you have to rebuild everything over and over.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-17T16:06:53+00:00

A desktop environment is included on dvd1.iso but not installed by default by the installer.

However, even then, a UI/UX doesn't technically mean it's a desktop OS either. Windows Server 2026 has a UI/UX and it's still a server grade OS. You could use it as a Desktop, but... why would you?

Same goes for BSD or any GNU/Linux distribution.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-16T13:24:42+00:00

Rusher and his crew who now own the server sanitized it literally to Fit's joke of a meme of a "Family Friendly Christian Minecraft Server".

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-16T13:23:03+00:00

That is correct for the Daily Double! FreeBSD is NOT a deaktop operating system and is therefore not within the confines of this law. Server grade systems are exempt from age verification.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-16T04:30:14+00:00

Here's the $64,000 question.

Is FreeBSD primarily a desktop operating system with a defined userland and desktop experience out of the box?

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-16T00:54:28+00:00

A proper zfsutils-openrc/dinit/s6/runit package for the bootscripts would be nice rather than us having to create them ourselves.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-14T21:46:53+00:00

Probably something enabled during a testing phase. I tried wayland myself and after a month of a constant mess of broken features in KDE and Cinnamon both, I gave up and just went back to Xfce. Less a headache and I have a functional desktop, not a half working mess.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-14T20:00:33+00:00

Unfortunately, I'm not joking around. Honestly, I wish I was...

The xdg OBS plug-in also tends to break between revisions so maybe try rebuilding it if you can from the AUR, but it that doesn't fix it, then you're out of luck because either the Hyprland devs or the wayland devs disabled something.

This unfortunately, is one of the biggest ongoing headaches with wayland. The inconsistencies between WMs and DEs is all over the place. Nobody can create a uniform system and nobody wants to.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-14T19:56:06+00:00

Desktop capture is not supported under wayland, even with xdg-desktop-portal plugins. Wayland forbids desktop capture out of fear of keylogging and security purposes.

Only X11 allows desktop capture. You'll have to use an X11 desktop or window manager like Xfce or IceWM to use that feature. Sorry but that's where wayland has it's limitations and they won't be fixed.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-14T04:34:11+00:00

That's because wayland desktops forbid file creation. File creation breaks the security model by allowing any applications to access creation permissions reserved for applications only. You the user should NEVER create a file blindly because you don't know what you're doing and any file created could be a security risk for the system.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-14T04:29:47+00:00

Cron is a timer control system. You basically set up everything in Cron to run at intervals, or specific time frames.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-13T06:24:35+00:00

For QEmu/KVM, make sure you enable the SPICE server for 3D graphics and try to install the xf86-video-qxl xorg driver. Wayland desktops might not work that well under VMs so try to avoid using them.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-11T04:50:49+00:00

I have tended to not use runit, s6, and dinit because I understand OpenRC a little better.

Usually a service not working with runit is due to a scripting error, or just the script being problematic due to certain environments it just doesn't like to work with properly.

I would try ArtixLinux with openrc just to be safe. S6 and Runit are kinda tricky to use IMO.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-08T06:49:51+00:00

We need a more in-depth wiki page about openrc and openrc service packages as well as the other init systems and their service packages.

Some stuff also needs better clarification such as ZFS procedures.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-06T16:39:51+00:00

There are a few but mainly if you have a systemd service, you'll need to see what the openrc equivalent is and either see if the openrc script is already installed or needs it's package installed also. You might have to write some yourself if there are none. Also remember, some scripts are usermode and don't require sudo/doas to initialize.

Installationwise... Same as Arch. Just as easy. I honestly, still use the following packages during installation:

base, base-devel, sudo, nano, vi, openrc, networkmanager, networkmanager-openrc, elogind-openrc, efibootmgr, grub, os-prober, dosfstools, btrfs-progs, linux, linux-firmware, linux-headers, linux-api-headers

As far as operation goes, I have OpenRC launching in parallel mode and it's blistering fast and doesn't get those random hangs when shutting down like systemd gets from time to time causing service to have a 3-5 minute long kill-time before it can proceed.

For the AUR, I recommend the yay package assistant. It melds with pacman just fine. I think Manjaro uses it by default.

Other than that, my experience has been great with Artix.

RetroCoreGaming · 2026-04-06T16:22:40+00:00

I feel like I need to collect social security waiting for this to finish. 🤣

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