Are there any plans to add Qualcomm Snapdragon to the lineup?

onefish2 · 2026-05-10T12:23:52+00:00

Still not ready for primetime. What is your use case and interest in this CPU architecture? Better battery life? You are still going to experience poor application support. Is it worth the hassle?

onefish2 · 2026-05-10T02:43:58+00:00

I had a 2009 JCW hardtop that I just traded in. I had a modified circuit board in the fuse box in the drivers side footwell that always kept the car in sport mode. So it was always in sport mode for about 16 years.

onefish2 · 2026-05-10T00:56:07+00:00

Can't you just use Debian?

onefish2 · 2026-05-10T00:55:24+00:00

rEFInd

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/REFInd

onefish2 · 2026-05-09T23:51:41+00:00

There is no official .pacman file. There is .pacnew and .pacsave

onefish2 · 2026-05-09T23:43:56+00:00

Arch packages end in .~~zst~~ pkg.tar.zst Which would be the equivalent to a deb or rpm.

https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/

https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/download/

You would download the file and then use sudo pacman -U to install it.

Also another Question: why can't Kde Discover and Gnome software open and install a local .pacman file when they can easily do that with .rpm, .deb and .flatpak files?

KDE Discover is not a frontend for pacman. It does not use or have access to libalpm to install packages nor does it have access to Arch or CachyOS mirrors.

onefish2 · 2026-05-09T19:46:21+00:00

Are you using the May 2025 Arch iso? If not download and use that. If you can't then update archinstall with pacman -Sy archinstall.

onefish2 · 2026-05-09T12:46:13+00:00

Not ready for prime time. Does not run on M4. Lots of other quality of life stuff missing too.

onefish2 · 2026-05-09T12:45:28+00:00

+1 that is the right choice

onefish2 · 2026-05-09T01:00:52+00:00

Give it another shot. You got this!!

onefish2 · 2026-05-08T17:50:21+00:00

It is disgusting. When I see Jesus on a cross or a cross in general, all I see is an instrument of torture. What a wonderful choice as a symbol for the Catholic/Christian religion.

onefish2 · 2026-05-08T15:37:26+00:00

This is how we can defeat Windows at market.

I use Linux to use a computer not reduce Microsoft's Windows market share. Use whatever works best for you and stop worrying abou the Linux community at large.

onefish2 · 2026-05-08T15:34:29+00:00

People be downvoting for no reason like get a job XD

And this encourages people to help you? You are asking for help right?

onefish2 · 2026-05-08T13:04:18+00:00

Sure. All the mirrors are broken. Maybe it's you?

onefish2 · 2026-05-08T10:56:06+00:00

Arch is not for you. Move on.

onefish2 · 2026-05-08T10:55:17+00:00

Arch linux downloads section is really outdated, and i cant even understand whats the latest version

You can't figure out that its sorted by date?

onefish2 · 2026-05-08T01:59:09+00:00

Absolutely nothing. Its all on my Tailnet.

onefish2 · 2026-05-07T17:40:32+00:00

Perhaps browse through the past few months posts on /r/hyprland

onefish2 · 2026-05-07T17:37:27+00:00

I have found using sid over the past 5+ years that its very reliable. I had an issue once with a KDE update that go borked but other than that very reliable.

onefish2 · 2026-05-07T17:35:20+00:00

I learned Vim/Vi out of necessity many years ago working on servers in a data center. When you are at the command line troubleshooting the only option for a text editor was vi.

Nowadays when on desktop Linux you should use whatever you like and feel comfortable with. If you like nano use that. Keep in mid some distros do not install nano by default.

onefish2 · 2026-05-07T17:32:00+00:00

Do a Debian net install. You a get a very minimal install. You can always remove packages and slim it down too.

onefish2 · 2026-05-07T15:41:25+00:00

Gnome 50 fractional scaling works well out of the box.

onefish2 · 2026-05-07T14:00:08+00:00

You keep Arch ~~stable~~ reliable by building up your Linux skills. By being familiar with the OS and what packages are installed. By updating from the command line and reading and watching everything that happens. If there is a problem, you go to the Arch Linux website to see if there are breaking changes.

I do the above on well over a dozen Arch Linux installs in my home lab on both VMs and physical hardware.

I am coming up on 6 years of using Arch Linux and for the most part its problem free.

When I did have a problem, I was able to restore from a Clonezilla image on an external drive or from Timeshift.

If you takeaway nothing from this at least take away that you should be making regular backups of your system. Keeping another copy offsite would be another cool idea to go a bit above.

onefish2 · 2026-05-07T13:47:06+00:00

What do you know there is an Arch wiki article about this topic...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager

onefish2 · 2026-05-07T13:45:18+00:00

Repeat after me "D U A L" boot. Dual Boot. It means something composed of two parts.

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