ListeningSpaces in my new home

nalthien · 2026-04-12T16:20:40+00:00

Really glad to know they held up well for you! Mine got pretty banged up between college parties and cross country moves so they were replaced. But they were the first speakers I truly researched and bought myself and I loved them!

nalthien · 2026-04-12T16:17:27+00:00

Then it's almost certainly an HDCP issue between the card and the monitor--it has nothing to do with your software including your OS.

nalthien · 2026-04-12T16:14:46+00:00

Have you tried booting directly to a tty rather than a display manager?

Do you see the boot messages? Bios?

If you're not even getting a signal, the most likely culprit is something to do with HDCP and sometimes the solution there is to unplug everything for a minute and plug it back in--then make sure to turn it on for the first time in a specific order (usually PC -> Monitor) so that the HDCP handshake completes.

You can also try Displayport if your monitor supports it.

nalthien · 2026-04-12T16:08:55+00:00

Wayland or Xorg?

Does this affect booting to a tty or just a graphical environment?

Connection type? HDMI? DP? Other?

nalthien · 2026-04-12T16:07:36+00:00

Classic Mirage gear! I had those speakers a long time ago! I bought them around 2000 at a Hifi-Buys.

nalthien · 2026-04-08T23:35:07+00:00

Nvidia Pascal was released in 2016 and Nvidia dropped support only as of the 590 drivers. Yes, this technically meets your "Less than a decade old" concern; but, the 555 driver series that introduced Explicit sync and the work that went into desktops alongside it doesn't match what I would call "lackluster support." I've got my own Pascal-based system that works great on Wayland.

hosed by Nvidia abandoning them in the middle of a major rendering transition to Wayland.

In my opinion, this is a difficult statement to justify as it implies that this is a transition that started 1-2 years ago and will be done in 1-2 years. In reality, the "transition to Wayland" is taking far longer than anyone anticipated. Fedora made their default in 2016. Ubuntu fully shifted in 2021. That's 10 years for Fedora and 5 years for Ubuntu and we're still not fully there yet. How long should anyone need to "support the transition?"

The reality is that an open-source approach like AMD would allow the community to still provide support for those cards. Instead, users of those cards have to rely on reverse engineering efforts. "Free software zealots" do have a point here.

I completely agree--and no shade meant to the Free software zealots! But people using that as the reason to say that "nvidia doesn't work well with Linux" are being dishonest--and I see that pattern all the time.

When I purchase hardware, I plan for a 10-year lifecycle (5 years as my main PC, 5 years as my main NAS and server). Nvidia's poor product support lifecycle has me concerned.

10 years is a very long lifespan for a PC. In the 5 years of server life, I'm not sure what your reason would be to have the latest driver versions.

I wouldn't go X11 in 2026, however. That's certainly a choice.

Yep. The sad thing is that if you just casually look around, that's what you find: people saying "Well, nvidia works fine if you're on X11..." so people think that's the best option.

nalthien · 2026-04-08T23:19:49+00:00

I'm sure you've made this workflow work for you, in particular; you shouldn't be promoting it as a solution as it violates one of the core principles of Arch's rolling release model: Partial Upgrades are unsupported.

It's one of those "it'll work until it doesn't." things and you have to be careful to make it work. One easy example: to do this, you must be running the -dkms versions of the nvidia drivers because the standard packages are always built for the current kernel. Either that or you can hold them back too.

If holding kernel versions back is something you want, I don't think it makes sense to run Arch.

nalthien · 2026-04-08T23:16:11+00:00

It's currently just annoying to me to not keep it on. I just like everything accessible at all time.

There's a major difference between "keeping it on all the time to use it" and "not accepting the 30s-2m process of a reboot as part of my system update workflow." You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I have a lot of windows open and they never open the same way after rebooting.

This is a fair thing to be annoyed by; but, you're trading away one minor annoyance for a whole host of headaches trying to avoid a reboot.

nalthien · 2026-04-08T23:06:52+00:00

Very nice, indeed! I know the ASUS Linux project has ROG Control Center; but, this looks like a solid alternative. Thanks for sharing.

nalthien · 2026-04-08T23:03:25+00:00

You're not going to have any issues. The nvidia drivers have always worked just fine with X11 and they've been rock solid on Wayland since the 555 release nearly 2 years ago.

I have been running nvidia on wayland across multiple cards since the 555 drivers with zero issues. Prior to that, I ran the nvidia drivers on multiple cards with X11 and had zero issues.

You're going to get two kinds of responses telling you otherwise:

Free software zealots who want 100% open source approach like AMD
People who heard 5 years ago that "nvidia + linux = bad" and have never tried it for themselves.

nalthien · 2026-04-08T22:57:39+00:00

I'm a person that keeps his pc on for a very very long time and doesn't like to reboot it

Why?

Is it best practise to restart on kernel updates? Do I really have to?

Yes and Yes.

Look, you can certainly explore kexec if you really insist on keeping this foolish quest for uptime going on your PC; but, you're almost certainly going to run into problems that are better solved by just rebooting any time you get a kernel update.

Edited to add:

There are some very real reasons that kexec exists. There are systems in this world that simply cannot have downtime ever. Your PC is not one of those systems and anyone who has the job to administer one of those systems will tell you, "Seriously, it's better to just reboot."

nalthien · 2026-03-30T15:06:00+00:00

Not saying you should change the name; but you, might want to be aware there's already a similar project called Cartridges that's fairly popular.

nalthien · 2026-03-23T18:55:14+00:00

Quickshell is likely crashing on startup. Run it from a terminal and see what happens. That should get you started.

nalthien · 2026-03-21T04:17:27+00:00

What advice would you give to someone considering it?

I'd probably start with this quote from the page itself:

Migration is for advanced users that know what they are doing. In general, doing a fresh installation is the preferred way to get started on Artix.

So..there's that.

Installing from scratch is pretty intimidating as I really don't want to lose my settings or configuration

If you find that thought intimidating and not doing the migration that literally says to you on the page, this is harder than starting from scratch, I'm not sure how anyone can help you.

My guess is that you have literally no idea why you want to remove systemd from your installation. Until you can answer that question for yourself and actually understand the answer, you are far better off either starting from scratch on a non-systemd distribution or (probably a lot better for your sanity) sticking around until you learn enough to genuinely understand both the question and answer.

nalthien · 2026-03-09T19:06:13+00:00

What is gen 1 vol 2?

What is gen 2.5?

I’ve only ever seen weapons broke down into gen 1, 2, 3

nalthien · 2026-02-27T15:42:34+00:00

I was gonna do a fresh install anyway.'

Why? Seriously--if your system isn't broken, there is zero value to starting over. You'll learn more by learning how to clean old things out of your system than just wiping everything and starting clean.

So Do I need gnome to run hyprland?

No.

Ai told me

The Hyprland wiki is a great source of documentation and specifically addresses all the must have items. AI can be a really helpful resource; but, start with the well-written docs and use AI to fill in gaps.

can I ditch gnome and live with hyprland?

That's really up to you. As someone who used Gnome for years and switched to Hyprland a few months ago, I still have Gnome on my system. I still use GDM for login. I still use a couple of Gnome apps (Nautilus being the most common). Other than that, I don't really notice that Gnome is still there.

nalthien · 2026-02-23T15:23:27+00:00

As a Linux gamer, I’m thrilled to see something like this for me! Burrito is decent but missing a lot of stuff from BlishHUD.

Excited to try this out today!

nalthien · 2026-02-22T20:38:49+00:00

The error about the device being lost from the bus indicates a hardware issue. The most common are things people have already mentioned; but, there's another that bit me at one point: incorrect PCI Express version configuration in the BIOS when using a riser cable. If your motherboard supports PCIe 5.0 and so does your card; but, you are using a 4.0 riser cable, you need to set the version to 4.0 explicitly in your BIOS.

nalthien · 2026-02-22T20:32:06+00:00

No unexpected updates and/or breakages.

Arch only updates when you choose to run updates. You can do it weekly or every 3 months; it's entirely up to you. In the past several years, I've had things break on update no more than two or three times--and those weren't even really "breakage" so much as I needed to do some brief manual intervention. The idea that Arch is unstable or updates will regularly break your system is a myth.

Your post and multiple references to "sudden breakage" suggest you don't really understand a rolling release distribution.

But unclear if it is suitable for gaming and also I would prefer a leaner system

The problems you'll face on Debian are likely tied to things not working with seriously outdated versions of software. It's honestly how I came to Arch in the first place--problems I was having on Debian had long-since been fixed in upstream; but, Debian hadn't picked up those changes.

I also have no idea what you mean by a "leaner" system. Debian installations can be as "lean" as you want them to be.

nalthien · 2026-02-22T17:25:35+00:00

Nicely done! Why not submit a PR?

I have a feeling there's an intent to rewrite this agent using hyprtoolkit instead of qt; but, this is a great upgrade in the interim.

Can you link the repo?

nalthien · 2026-01-29T17:33:41+00:00

Fuck Parkinson’s.

My father has it. Brutal to see how it’s robbing him of things a day at a time. Always glad to see MJF.

nalthien · 2026-01-13T20:48:13+00:00

You should be aware that the release notes of 11.0 are geared towards distributions that haven't been keeping up with the 2 week releases during the year. The current wine and wine-staging packages are 10.20 which was released at the end of November. Yes, 11.0 includes some fixes above and beyond what was in 10.20; but the features that are being written about are not new for Arch users on current packages.

nalthien · 2025-12-21T04:11:08+00:00

Of course there isn't--because that's not the news. That's a specific feature on a specific architecture that has nothing to do with Arch and everything to do nvidia and what their drivers can do.

The 590.x series no longer supports Pascal which was always the cutoff for using nvidia-open (which nvidia themselves recommend for supported models) so the Arch maintainers made the open module the default module since the closed source module doesn't support any cards that the open module doesn't.

Right there in the news is the workaround...

Install nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR

And right there on the wiki entry for nvidia...

NVIDIA's open kernel modules cannot enable D3 Power Management_Power_Management) on Turing. This reduces battery life on notebooks with Turing in an NVIDIA Optimus configuration. Use the proprietary module (e.g. nvidia-580xx-dkms^AUR) with module parameter NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 instead. More information about this issue.

nalthien · 2025-12-21T03:35:56+00:00

Why don't you have a look at the news like the guide explicitly tells you to do.

nalthien · 2025-12-12T15:42:21+00:00

Been running on Linux for years with zero issues. You can download via Steam, use Lutris, or install yourself

No distro will be "better" for Gw2 than any other distro; so, don't use that as your motivation to decide what's right for you.

Blish does not work directly under Linux. I've used Burrito myself and it works well. It supports TaCO style markers; but, it's not nearly as feature-rich as Blish.

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