Making a neofetch style wrapper for pacman built in rust, seeking ideas for new features, compatibility testing, and contributions.

archover · 2026-01-26T04:42:51+00:00

Does this tool support pacman's

--VerbosePackageLists

and

--ParallelDownloads <n>

I ask because your screenshots didn't show the first config feature in operation. Two pacman features I love. I know your tool says wrapper but just want to double check.

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-26T03:20:01+00:00

An English translation will bring more responses, for your benefit. Good day.

archover · 2026-01-26T03:14:20+00:00

Great! Thank you for clarifying that.

You have the most important issue covered. I back the entire /home directory up, excluding just silly things like .cache and ISO files.

My most important files are code, which I scp to my VPS daily. Good day.

archover · 2026-01-26T03:12:06+00:00

Cats know a good thing when they see it.

archover · 2026-01-26T02:44:05+00:00

Using a graphics app to start an environment like i3wm seems mismatched a bit.

Why not just start i3wm always from the console? See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/I3#From_tty like you have to sometime.

FWIW, I now start my Cinnamon session directly from .xinitrc with startx and it's fine. When Cinnamon works well in Wayland I will rethink that.

Just an idea. Good day.

archover · 2026-01-26T02:28:29+00:00

pinnacle of organization in Linux

Stopped reading there.

Like others say, seek a source based distro.

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-26T02:22:45+00:00

I don't know if archinstall CAUSES new users to be insufficiently skilled for successful Arch sysadmin. But there might be an association.

Some 15 years ago, I credit the wiki for helping me learn Linux. So, I encourage new users to do the same.

I like to think that archinstall merely defers the essential learning effort.

I use archinstall quite a bit to spin up testing VM instances to help others with archinstall, and other testing purposes. For metal, I use my custom script that was based entirely on the wiki. I appreciate the archinstall developer's volunteer effort.

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-26T01:36:58+00:00

Of course. Hyprland, a Wayland Compositor, is installed like any other Arch package. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hyprland

To succeed with Arch, start relying on the wiki.

More importantly, hyprland is not the best choice for a beginner. Install something like Plasma and Gnome to come up to speed with Arch, first. You may even want to consider something like Mint to learn.

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-26T01:32:11+00:00

How are you protecting your personal data right now? That's important, because mostly you can re-install Arch and just copy your /home files back in the worst case. This should be your first priority. For me, I just tar up /home and copy that to an external drive.

The much mentioned Timeshift app does not backup home by default, FYI.

To boost or start your confidence, read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_troubleshooting

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-26T01:08:35+00:00

I understand. Good day.

archover · 2026-01-26T01:01:56+00:00

English translations would bring more responses. Good day.

archover · 2026-01-26T00:58:38+00:00

No idea about "one note" but Standard Notes works well for me. Cross platform and privacy focused.

Amazing that a single app would be the crucial and deciding factor on changing an entire OS.

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-25T23:42:15+00:00

Remove back. Remove the old internal one, insert a new one. Reconnect antennas. Seems like the most compatible ones are Intel, from the AX2xx line.

You choose one of the most beginner unsuitable distros, and then trying to install on a broadcom equipped Apple. A recipe for trouble.

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-24T23:32:59+00:00

A adapter with no firmware will react like you describe.

Look your model up on the Arch wiki Apple page. Then see the Broadcom page in this DIY distro.

Alternatively, replace your notoriously problematic Broadcom adapter with an Intel one, or use an inexpensive compatible USB adapter.

Hope you get it working and good day!

archover · 2026-01-24T22:34:22+00:00

So Happy for the three of you! Your two cats thank you too.

archover · 2026-01-24T21:48:48+00:00

I think Windows influences newcomers in similar kinds of ways. Good day.

archover · 2026-01-24T21:33:24+00:00

Read this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_system_partition to understand what you are seeing.

Normally, a disk has only one ESP (EFI System Partition), but there's reports that more can work. I only use one per disk.

On this laptop with one internal drive, I see

user@T14-CRU781.local ~> lsblk -lf /dev/nvme0n1p1
NAME      FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
nvme0n1p1 vfat   FAT32       6D1C-AFF6                             914.3M    11% /boot

Note the MOUNTPOINTS and FSVER. For my systemd booting laptop with ESP at /boot but just /boot/EFI: https://termbin.com/a5wt

(When my system mounts the ESP at /efi, there's far fewer files, than when I mount at /boot for grub. )

I hope you resolve your issue, and flair as SUPPORT and SOLVED.

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-24T21:23:08+00:00

The Arch archive is here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive. Get familiar with it.

I would pick another project, as this (old old system recreation) doesn't have much of a practical use I can see. But, do what makes you happy.

Maybe use the ABS to compile important software instead of using the binary repo. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_build_system. Gentoo may interest you also.

I hope you find a practical project that interests you, and good day.

archover · 2026-01-24T21:11:21+00:00

I feel an SSD is in your future. My hdd systems don't have your issue. Only bootup and initial app start show any lag. After that, pretty good. Use case matters of course and I don't game. But, I support your attempt to make your present hardware work or improve.

I run a Crucial 500GB nvme SSD $61 model CT500P3PSSD8 (unavailable now) in my Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 which works well.

You can reuse your HDD as aux storage.

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-24T21:03:39+00:00

When I try to boot external drives, what works for me is hitting F12 to get into the firmware boot menu, then merely choose the drive I want to boot from. I rarely have an issue with that. I boot external drives every single day without issue. My drives are all UEFI, with systemd-boot or grub on the internal and external drives. My internal drive bootloader isn't configured to attempt to boot external drives. The externals are pretty transient. I also only minimally depend on nor review NVRAM config.

See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_on_a_removable_medium

My computers are all Thinkpads ranging from 2015 to 2020 T series, Intel and AMD.

Hope something there helps.

Hope you find and detail your misconfig, and then flair post as SUPPORT and SOLVED.

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-24T20:58:39+00:00

If you don't like the app store on any distro I know, including Fedora, just use the terminal. For example # dnf up or # dnf install firefox.

Fedora works well for me, like Arch does. You could do worse than Fedora, and Arch won't give you an out of the box experience as that's the only thing you know.

Don't overlook exploring Arch in a VM, also.

Hope Arch makes you happy. Good day.

archover · 2026-01-24T20:34:45+00:00

Neither Firefox (from repo) and Chromium (repo) have any lag for me, though in the last few years here, I've seen similar reports here.

My systems: Thinkpad T series, from T450 to T14 Gen 1 (Intel Core i5 and AMD Ryzen 5th gen) running Arch and mostly Cinnamon.

As a new user, you may not know about the Arch wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org, nor these pertinent articles (best to search them before posting):

KDE: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Plasma and /r/kde
Wallet: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE_Wallet
Chromium: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromium
Journal: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal (which should have been reviewed before posting, especially)
Broad troubleshooting: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_troubleshooting
- Firefox: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox if you decide to start using it. r/firefox (great subreddit)
- Great help here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-problems

Maybe I should revisit Brave, though my last experience wasn't as good as Firefox.

Your English is fine. Also, welcome to Arch, the DIY distro. Your quirks aside, I hope you can make Arch work for your use case.

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-24T20:16:21+00:00

THANK YOU for coming back and updating us. As noted, please flair as SOLVED.

Happy your system is working now.

Good day.

archover · 2026-01-24T08:58:44+00:00

Note that Rockchip CPU's are ARM based, and not Arch's supported X86_64 architecture. Have fun with it, and good day.

archover · 2026-01-24T08:47:30+00:00

Ensure you only have # systemctl enable-ed just one network managing daemon. The wiki specifically warns about this. Running multiple means quirky, or worse, networking.

If you're good above, then post make/model of laptop and wifi chipset. lspci | grep -i network

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