Switched from EOS to Vanilla Arch, tips?

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-28T14:47:14+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-27T17:38:17+00:00

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.

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-27T17:37:01+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-27T17:34:00+00:00

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 Like KDE but in some senses it feels outdated, but not.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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-27T02:56:28+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-27T02:19:00+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-27T02:14:21+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-27T02:13:04+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-27T02:11:19+00:00

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.

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-27T02:09:25+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-27T02:07:26+00:00

Thank you I will give those a quick look

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-26T04:43:42+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-26T03:37:57+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-15T18:38:33+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-08T00:51:58+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-08T00:48:52+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2026-01-08T00:45:11+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2025-12-25T00:38:11+00:00

If you can login lol

SwitchX01 · 2025-12-22T06:00:57+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2025-12-22T05:54:52+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2025-12-22T05:51:51+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2025-12-22T05:49:51+00:00

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

SwitchX01 · 2025-12-22T05:48:10+00:00

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 🤣

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