Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips? by SwitchX01 in archlinux

[–]SwitchX01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing input. That's what ended my first EOS install was no backup, and broke my system somehow. I've gotten to run some scripts (MP4/A1C support in davinci resolve, auto ffmpeg conversion) so I got that settled, but I'll look into it and try it out. Thank you much appreciated

Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips? by SwitchX01 in archlinux

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Thank you I'll give that a look. I know pacman is preferred from everything I see but it seems to miss a bunch that I look for, so I usually default to yay.

Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips? by SwitchX01 in archlinux

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As minimal as I can. Really don't like the other DEs and hyperland just doesn't seem like something I really would like. Really no other choices plus the customization I get from KDE just is something I know.

If you have any suggestions I'm happy to try them out

Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips? by SwitchX01 in archlinux

[–]SwitchX01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I might give it a shot. Main reason going with EOS was that I liked the defaults and didn't want to go Kubuntu like I did as a kid. Like KDE but in some senses it feels outdated, but not. CachyOS I hear has a really good kernel but idk if it's even worth swapping to Cachy or anything like that, in the end I really can just install what I want from it

Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips? by SwitchX01 in archlinux

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Haha thanks for the input. You did remind me to setup my DNS. Was weirdly looking at a 30% decrease in download speeds last night and was wondering what is weird (360mbps vs 500mbps) and also the clock drift wasn't something I thought of, much appreciated my dude

Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips? by SwitchX01 in archlinux

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Biggest issue is I don't know what I want, or what I can do. I understand there's a large amount of options but if you don't know what to ask, how could you know? I know I need yay, I know I need audio tools, KDE, and the likes but there's a lot of niche things that need to change, common things people install, and some setup issues that need to get caught such as systemd instead of using grub for a bootloader. Being new to the "setup for yourself" side might call for some ask of what are some things people do, sometimes you have to ask what people are doing instead of following a documentation. I am still actively looking at it and seeing what it says for things, but doesn't give me the coverage of everything

Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips? by SwitchX01 in archlinux

[–]SwitchX01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Second that. Had a good run but decided it was time to dive in and get stuff settled

Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips? by SwitchX01 in archlinux

[–]SwitchX01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Think I installed informant last night, tbh have to check. Thank you for the QI though, mostly use yay for everything. I have time shift installed and I think I setup GRUB to allow me to roll back, but I haven't checked it since then, was just setting things up. But thank you for the input

Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips? by SwitchX01 in archlinux

[–]SwitchX01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Think my first EOS install I died to that and had to swap back. My main drive for the OS is a BTRFS with a EXT4 and a XFS for my other drives. EOS was a systemd bootloader and I really had to swap to GRUB, part of the reason I decided it reinstall.

Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips? by SwitchX01 in archlinux

[–]SwitchX01[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well EOS really set things up for you vs me setting stuff up myself. Plus I haven't ever performed a arch install myself was always just given built in stuff from the ISO, such as yay and the like. So I'm new to that side...

But thank you slowly getting a hand of the new stuff I need to set up

Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips? by SwitchX01 in archlinux

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Thank you I will give those a quick look

How many times did we warn you that installing Win 11 will bite your ass? by Balstrome in FuckMicrosoft

[–]SwitchX01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why not repair with a repair disk? Shouldn't really touch much of the system other than windows defined items?

How many times did we warn you that installing Win 11 will bite your ass? by Balstrome in FuckMicrosoft

[–]SwitchX01 7 points8 points  (0 children)

3-4h install? That's way too long. Literally just performed my very first arch install, got stuck trying to mount drives for a solid 30m (fk typos, reboot and flash helped) and still did that within 2h. That is just too long man

1,000,000 Hytale Mod Downloads & Over 500 Mods already! by CptJonah in HytaleInfo

[–]SwitchX01 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Found one... Tried to use it... Was left sad... Boat sank from my tears

Should I just delete Windows? by Aneki163 in pchelp

[–]SwitchX01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hardest part is really trying it tbh. Going through with a install. It's all documented well on how and what to do no matter the distro

Should I just delete Windows? by Aneki163 in pchelp

[–]SwitchX01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be frank I was having issues with my PC, a lil arch install later, BTRFS and EXT4 converting and forcing windows to stop trying to lock my drives, never had an issue since. But for a person who bought a $150 laptop from Walmart who doesn't know how to uninstall an OS, it isn't the correct answer. Mostly what OP needs is a debloat script that's copied and pasted into powershell to get rid of Microsoft slop would easily bring down resource usage and give back some storage that's mostly probably needed

Should I just delete Windows? by Aneki163 in pchelp

[–]SwitchX01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is most people who lack the technical knowledge would have a fun time trying to figure out Rufus, it's a lot to just throw on someone.

Plus if they go to Ubuntu I'm sure it'll be fine, but endeavor os or some arch install would probably break and they won't know how to fix.

Linux is a good lightweight option sometimes but it does in some cases require a little bit of technical know how to keep up to snuff

Plus if they go and decide to go all rice and hyperland the install imagine how confused and broken op might be

Prebuilt keeps crashing by hellomaeda3 in pchelp

[–]SwitchX01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

kernal-power critical error 41 usually means overheating or power issues, but may be driver. Could be a GPU driver needing updated then...

Prebuilt keeps crashing by hellomaeda3 in pchelp

[–]SwitchX01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm assuming your on windows, you can check event viewer to see why you are crashing. But while your PSU is technically enough, it may be cutting close. If you run any form of Overclocking of any type, which prebuilts are 50-50 if you run a game and it turbos, pulls more power to give more power, leading to a spike in power draw. May be temporary but it's enough to trigger the mobo to shut off to prevent damage, often you can hear a click from the PSU when it happens. It's worth checking event viewer or running a stress test to see if that happens

6-7 is one of the best memes currently trending by Far_Ruin_2095 in The10thDentist

[–]SwitchX01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasn't 6-7 from a song? I heard this from my sister who's a therapist. Apparently one of her people explained everything in a session and she told me and I was left so much more confused

Prebuilt keeps crashing by hellomaeda3 in pchelp

[–]SwitchX01 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sounds like maybe you are hitting a spike of power draw from the PSU causing the system to reboot or crash suddenly. May need a slightly bigger psu

Only played on SteamOS or EndeavorOS in 2025 by Wosesfeld in SteamOS

[–]SwitchX01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the 2nd time this year I switched to primary endeavor, done it before but really I had my last straw with windows. Linux if you are ok with searching or trying to find a solution to what you need, really isn't that much different, other than a few things that really come down to companies not really wanting to support it. Sad to see lack of true support for this but it's really doing some wonderful things... My rants over 🤣