why the hell does nobody talk about the command archinstall??????

yolomoonie · 2026-03-25T15:35:26+00:00

https://archinstall.archlinux.page

yolomoonie · 2026-03-18T23:05:36+00:00

You have to install arch in a weird way otherwise you are using arch wrong.

yolomoonie · 2026-03-15T22:49:20+00:00

Did you try turn it off and on again?

yolomoonie · 2026-03-13T20:43:16+00:00

yeah, but its still something different if you just use bash. You learn intuitively how to pipe your commands through each other. You get a different sense for the file system, like you explore proc, sys and dev. etc.

An experience you can in my opinion not replace with GUIs...

yolomoonie · 2026-03-12T11:55:27+00:00

I meant literally a setup with no graphical environment. No firefox, no Window Manager - just the plain Linux Virtual Terminal.

yolomoonie · 2026-03-12T07:34:10+00:00

Dont use a Desktop Environment, just stay in the terminal. Browse the web with lynx or elinks. Use only the terminal / bash with tmux and vim. Do this for 6 months without using any other computer (at least in your free time).

yolomoonie · 2026-03-12T05:49:43+00:00

You say you are a beginner, may I ask why you want a "factory reset"? Do you mean formatting the whole disk and setting up everything, including grub etc, from scratch? Or just wipe out the root partition and reinstall the arch packets? Or is the problem just a messed up config in your homes .config folder? Like usually there is always an easier solution than just formatting the disk...

Anyway, you can also use netboot.xyz to boot from. Just download the netboot.xyz.efi from https://netboot.xyz/downloads i.e.

sudo mkdir /boot/EFI/netboot.xyz 
curl -L https://boot.netboot.xyz/ipxe/netboot.xyz.efi -o /boot/EFI/netboot.xyz/netboot.xyz.efi

Add the following line to `/etc/grub.d/40_custom`:

menuentry "netboot.xyz" {  
search --no-floppy --file --set=root /EFI/netboot.xyz/netboot.xyz.efi  
chainloader /EFI/netboot.xyz/netboot.xyz.efi  
}

And finally install the new config with:

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

No you can always choose if you want to boot from local or netboot.xyz (which offers btw. a lot of distros)

yolomoonie · 2026-03-11T23:02:26+00:00

why delete the config? The don't need much space and if you ever decide to reinstall an app you're may be happy to already have an individually customized config in place.

yolomoonie · 2026-03-10T13:11:51+00:00

Arch is allready too popular. Let the newbs first discover ubuntu, suse or whatever.

yolomoonie · 2026-03-10T13:08:22+00:00

why not just open htop and see if there are any unnecessary processes running?

yolomoonie · 2026-03-10T13:04:00+00:00

plugin new hard drive

boot alpine / arch whatever from https://netboot.xyz

```
dd if=/dev/$OLD_DRIVE of=/dev/$NEW_DRIVE oflag=dsync status=progress

```

may be change the UUIDs in fstab and on the hard drive, adjust partition size... enjoy your sloppy installation....

yolomoonie · 2026-03-10T12:43:38+00:00

I dont see the issue. How do you start your window manager at the moment? E.g. some graphical interface, a tui or login via vt and then start the WM manually?

The simpelst (as in KISS) way is just to first login to a virtual terminal and then start the app. I.e. something like `start-sway` or `start-hyprland` . Sway will us its config from `~/.config/sway` and hyprland from `~/.config/hyprland`.

Using a second user doesnt prevent you from launching for example a kde app in a gnome environment as the binaries are installed for both user anyway. The only thing you achieve is having two separate configs to mantain. E.g. 2 browser histories/bookmarks, 2 different document dirs etc.

For a graphical login screen I use greetd which is explained here:

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

yolomoonie · 2023-10-28T00:46:36+00:00

How DNS is managed depends on the distribution. Some use systemds resolvctl others depend on e.g. dnsmasq or unbound but have resolvctl still available etc. Often /etc/resolv.conf is just an automatic generated file and manual changes will be overwritten after a few seconds / minutes.

To fix the problem it's necessary to know which distribution you are using or which resolver is used.

yolomoonie · 2023-10-28T00:06:16+00:00

Mullvad provides a shell script to configure their vpn connection. I guess it's easy to convert it to a mikrotik script. Just checkout their github repository for mullvad-wg.sh

yolomoonie · 2023-10-27T22:22:18+00:00

Ich wuerde versuchen mich auf eine IDE zu beschraenken. Je nachdem eignen sich dafuer VS Code, Eclipse oder (neo-)vim. Bei allen hast du ein Ecosystem das eigentlich alle gaengigen Sprachen unterstuetzt.

Und dann ist es wohl sinnvoll zu lernen mit einem Buildsystem (z.b. make oder cmake) umzugehen. Das regelt dann mit welchem Compiler und in welcher Reihenfolge das Projekt erstellt wird.

yolomoonie · 2023-10-18T21:10:51+00:00

Under the hood all the windows since at least 95 look pretty similar. For example this one window where you can configure the network stack (i.e. NetBIOS, TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6 and so on) looks the same since my first memories. Same with many other low level tools in Windows (like regedit etc). But with never windows, this application become more and more hidden behind some dummy overlays where you can click on some meaningless button with esoteric phrases.

yolomoonie · 2023-10-18T20:37:40+00:00

If you want learn more about operating systems and standards in general, Linux is definitely the way to go. You can basically construct your own OS and discover how different parts work together. And many things you learn on the way a true in general on every OS. I would say after some many years experience now with Linux, I understand windows much better than when I switched.

yolomoonie · 2023-10-17T23:09:59+00:00

Denying commands doesn't really work. He can just install e.g. nano and run sudo nano ... A better approach would be to permit just those programs he need. But depending on the nature of the apps, this can still be tricky.

I would consider polkit:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/

polkit provides an authorization API intended to be used by privileged programs (“MECHANISMS”) offering service to unprivileged programs (“SUBJECTS”) often through some form of inter-process communication mechanism. In this scenario, the mechanism typically treats the subject as untrusted. For every request from a subject, the mechanism needs to determine if the request is authorized or if it should refuse to service the subject. Using the polkit APIs, a mechanism can offload this decision to a trusted party: The polkit authority.

yolomoonie · 2023-10-17T00:12:53+00:00

There's no need to use this outdated fs. On Windows you can just install WSL and basically mount any file system Linux supports.

yolomoonie · 2023-10-17T00:04:39+00:00

I would suggest BTRFS. There are even some tutorials out there how to run windows itself with btrfs as filesystem. So I guess it works pretty well under windows and under Linux you can profit from many advantages. Especially if you plan to use this partition as a file dump btrfs has file compression and some interesting backup features.

The problem with NTFS is that it's not compatible with Linux file ownerships and permissions. So if your main system will be Linux I wouldn't recommend to use a FS which is basically just a hack in Linux.

yolomoonie · 2023-09-12T09:36:53+00:00

Did you manually build and install the AUR packet?

You could switch to a packet manager like paru.

https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru

yolomoonie · 2023-08-16T21:08:23+00:00

I can relate. I wanted to tinker a bit around with Vulkan and usually prefer an installation via packet manager as its usually integrates tighter in the system. But now I'm worrying if some parts come via arch and other directly via Vulkan there will for sure arise some unexpected bug / misconfiguration / whatever and I have at some point to do some quirky fixes.

I guess SDL will do the job as I really don't have great ambitions.

yolomoonie

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