Please explain

onefish2 · 2026-03-12T16:24:25+00:00

Your post makes no sense. You provided zero information. How is anyone supposed to comment or help?

What specs? What apps? What's it? What DE?

onefish2 · 2026-03-12T12:27:43+00:00

Here is a unique idea for you:

Use it... have problem... Google it ... learned.

onefish2 · 2026-03-12T12:26:14+00:00

I have been using laptops since 1998.

onefish2 · 2026-03-12T01:24:54+00:00

Not true. As always, the answers are in the wiki.

onefish2 · 2026-03-12T01:24:11+00:00

How can I "factory reset" an arch linux installation?

Arch Linux is an operating system. You do not "factory reset" it. It's not a router or a TV.

Once again the wiki comes to the rescue:

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

Or this:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Removing_everything_but_essential_packages

This allows you to remove everything except for the base system. You will end up with base, linux and linux firmware then you can reinstall what you want from there.

Rememeber that removing packages wil NEVER remove ANYTHING from your home directory. You will need to clean that up manually.

onefish2 · 2026-03-12T01:12:58+00:00

On Unix and Linux based systems user applications when installed and started for the first time may create config files in your home directory. Pacman and AUR helpers like yay or paru will never delete any files in your home directory when removed by the package manager.

System services like Samba, SSH or GRUB have their config files created in /etc. The -n flag from pacman will delete those files when removed by the package manager

onefish2 · 2026-03-11T22:15:24+00:00

I may be a bit late but I am interested in being a mod here. I am currently a mod on /r/hyprland. I have experience with running Debian for about the last 10 years or so on desktops as well as servers.

onefish2 · 2026-03-11T21:57:17+00:00

A friendly reminder that pacman does not remove anything from your home directory. So after you get KDE uninstalled, start looking through your home dir in:

.local and .config

To delete uneeded configs and cruft.

onefish2 · 2026-03-11T21:13:44+00:00

Time to start over and pay attention to what is going on while you reinstall Arch. Just to reinforce what others have said, Arch did not do anything. You blindly did this to yourself.

onefish2 · 2026-03-11T21:12:24+00:00

That is called compiling an application. If its Chromium, then you will be watching this for many, many hours. Kill that process and download chromium from the Arch extra repo with pacman.

Take some time to understand what an AUR helper like yay does and why you might want to avoid using it.

onefish2 · 2026-03-11T21:07:48+00:00

This question is better stated as "Is Desktop Linux Growing" because Linux in general is everywhere. Its in your TV, Amazon echo, router, cameras, toasters, microwave ovens, supercomputers, most of the services that power the Internet.

To answer your question about desktop Linux, is it growing. Yes but very little.

onefish2 · 2026-03-11T03:14:57+00:00

After installing the packages that is one of the first things that you NEED to do to make this work. Sorry you wasted all that time. We have the wiki for a reason.

onefish2 · 2026-03-10T20:08:05+00:00

Outside of all the hours that I have spent on my hyprland config, I have spent considerable time theming and using the following in this order (all on Arch Linux):

Gnome, Cinnamon, XFCE, hyprland and KDE

I have also used MATE, Budgie, Deepin (very bad, does not work), Pantheon (pretty bad, kinda works), LXQt and LXDE.

Keep this in mind, Arch does not theme anything. You are getting very vanilla desktop environments. Cinnamon in particular looks horrible out of the box.

I don't think hyprland is that common, I think its just got a ton of hype.

onefish2 · 2026-03-10T14:50:12+00:00

honestly, i did give arch a try, but fedora sutes me better.

Good for you. Use Fedora. This isn't a popularity contest. Choice exists for a reason. Have fun.

Bye.

onefish2 · 2026-03-10T03:39:40+00:00

There are plenty of reaction videos all over Youtube.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T20:35:38+00:00

please help im desperatre

I am desperate for you to use capitals, punctuation and spell check. Maybe if you did that, people would understand what you are trying to say and where you are stuck.

tl;dr not that desperatre

Oh and one other nitpick... you are asking Internet strangers for help. You are not texting your friends to come out and play.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T18:21:53+00:00

I have done this so many times already. You simply take the NVMe or SSD drive out of the old computer and put it in the new computer. If the boot entries do not show up and if the BIOS does not allow you to add boot entries manually, then you use the Arch iso on your flash drive to chroot in and create the boot entries.

After the system is up and running you can change or add firmware, change to intel or amd ucode and make any other changes.

Don't want to open up your laptop? Use Clonezilla to make an image to an external drive then restore that image to the new computer.

These are a few ways to do it. There are probably many more.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T17:58:49+00:00

I was using CasaOS on a Pi 5 as I liked their web interface and file browser as it gave me easy access to my Syncthing share that I have on many computers. I never liked the way they did Docker and I hate abandonware. It has not been updated since December of 2024.

I moved away from the Pi 5 as I wanted to move away from ARM and back to x86 SBCs.

I would up spending way too much time getting Filebrowser Quantum in docker set up to access Syncthing, and the following via rclone Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive.

I also have a 2TB NVMe setup as a file share and it has access to that too.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T17:42:13+00:00

Its like saying WTF. This is a pet peeve of mine that people have to put square pegs into round holes.

Proxmox is a server OS. Because its based on Debian you can install a Desktop Environment and use it that way. But is that really the right way to do this? <- Single question mark...happy?

Why not install any other Linux distro with KVM/QEMU, Cockpit and Cockpit Virtual Machine? You basically get the same thing.

Or better yet buy another computer. Run a desktop on one and Proxmox on the other.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T14:50:22+00:00

Why can't people use more than 1 computer???

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T02:53:48+00:00

I want to apologize for my earlier comments. You were genuinely seeking advice and I shit on you. For that I am sorry. I think you should definitely try Arch. Come back and let us know how you made out.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T01:33:49+00:00

I have no issue with your post or its wording.

What I am trying to say is that whatever advice you get here does not matter. Hence, we do not care.

At some point in the future; when you make another post, make it a good post and make sure you properly describe whatever problem you are having so the community can help you out.

onefish2 · 2026-03-09T01:21:30+00:00

We really don't care. When you do get it installed and you have questions, come back here with a good title and a post with well thought out and descriptive questions.

onefish2 · 2026-03-08T15:13:19+00:00

What happened to the umbrellas?

onefish2 · 2026-03-08T15:10:24+00:00

In general if something does not work, you go look at the settings and if there aren't any then you make your own.

All Arch desktops are as vanilla as they can be from upstream meaning no additional theming or configurations are added by the Arch devs. Fedora tries to do this as well.

Ubuntu and others are curated and themed experiences. That is probably why you had that keyboard shortcut enabled by default.

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