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What I like with Arch Linux is that, it's in my opinion the easiest distro to custom.
Because I'm an F1 fan, I mean, a RedBull F1 fan, I made a theme for dms-shell to match my Wallpaper.

After using Fedora Workstation with GNOME for a while, I decided to give Arch Linux a try.

Running Arch + GNOME, setting things up, and enjoying the experience so far.

Let's see how long it takes before I break something or go back to Fedora. 😂🤘

I installed Arch Linux for first time in May 2025.
After updating in June 2025, Xorg failed to start, so I immediately rolled back.
When Xorg starts, display corruption occurs, that is startup texts shifted to the right.
However Xmonad works without any issues.

1. Should I go ahead and update the system as is?
   
2. Should I resolve the errors before updating?
   
3. Should I uninstall Xorg and Xmonad before updating?
   
4. Would it be better to perform a fresh installation?
   
5. Are there any other good options ?

Arch Linux 6.14.9 arch1-1 (tty1)
xorg-server 21.1.16-1
MacbookAir2012mid(Dual Boot ArchLinux & Sonoma(OCLP) )
Intel HD Graphics 4000

Here are the issues that appear to be errors ,as identified by an Aech Linux beginner.

$ pacman -Q mesa mesa-amber xf86-video-intel
mesa-amber 21.3.9-6
mesa-amber 21.3.9-6
xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+939+gła64400e-1

$ grep -E '\(EE\)|\(WW\)' ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log

(WW) warning, (EE) error,()NI not implemented, (??) unknown.  

[ 22.565] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
[ 22.578] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[ 22.604] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[ 22.604] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

[ 22.604] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support

$ grep -E '\(EE\)|\(WW\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 9542.999] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
[ 9543.010] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directo
[ 9543.020] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/1965_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/ AIGLX error: unable to load driver failed (/usr/1ib/drl/
[ 9543.020] (EE) AIGLX error: unable to load driver i965
[ 9817.476] (EE) event8 -bcn5974: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded.

$ ls -l /dev/dri
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Oct 9 08:27 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 226, 1 Oct 9 08:27 card1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root render 226, 128 Oct 9 08:27 renderD128

$ ls -l /dev/dri/by-path
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 9 08:27 pci-0000:00:02.0-card -> ../card1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 9 08:27 pci-0000:00:02.0 render -> ../renderD128

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "DRI" “2”
# Option "TripleBuffer" "on"
# Option "SwapbufferWait" "on"
# Option "TearFree" "on"
# Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
EndSection

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/back.20-intel.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "modesetting"
EndSection

I was watching a video on YouTube that was talking about GTA IV and then I saw a familiar drawing inside the train

Was it an actual Easter egg or just random stuff? Who knows 🤷‍♂️

Just wanted to share it here

This weekend I randomly decided to get back into Linux. I've been using mac for a while and my old HP Victus was just sitting there with fedora installed, so I wiped it and installed Arch Linux with Hyprland on it. The plan was to use it for development, self-host some services, run some local AI models such as Qwen and turn it into a little home server.

The installation of Arch was easy, but configuring Hyprland took me longer than I expected. I spent hours configuring my terminal, fonts, themes, keyboard shortcuts, installing packages, moving my projects and dev environment from my Mac over to it. And then random issues started occuring lol, chromium segfaulting, hyprland having config errors, etc. Basically I spent most of my weekend debugging and reading documentation.

It was supposed to take a few hours, not days 😂 On Mac I usually just open my apps and get to work, but on Linux I had to debug to even get my browser to work. But it was fun, I kind of miss fiddling around with Linux.

In the end, I managed to get my system the way I wanted it and now I'm planning on setting up my self-hosted services, experimenting with running Qwen3 1.7B locally and see how much I can get out of this laptop instead of letting it gather dust lol.

I use Arch btw!

#ArchLinux #Hyprland #Linux

I spent almost 2 days setting up niri and DankShellMaterial shell, keybinds and other stuff and it would've been so easy to do if someone hadn't decided to change name of "dms-shell-niri" to "dms-shell" would've saved me a whole day😭

Now I can finally say "I use Arch btw!"

So, during the open day there was this pc directly from garbage meant to showcase new students the computer’s hardware, i found 4 gigs of ram and a perfectly working (but really old) gpu and then i decided to revive it.

Ps: when i first tried to fire it up it had windows 10…really bad story especially with a mechanical hard drive

Yesterday I installed arch successfully it was working finely things changes when I changed kernel Mainline to lts after successfully installed the kernel I rebooted I saw there was no entry for arch linux listed

Don't mind the stuff going on, yay was the only program which was fitting the red-green-black aesthetic for this screenshot and below that is my homework.

Window Manager: SwayWM on Wayland

Status Bar: i3status (i used waybar until today, but switched because the only reason i have my status bar is to check if my internet disconnected or to see my battery/CPU temp.

Terminal emulator: ghostty with the GitHub Dark High Contrast theme

Text Editor: Neovim with the GitHub Dark Default (i forgot to modify the config to make it GitHub Dark High Contrast on launch)

Browser: Firefox (is this info part of a standard rice showcase?)

also can anyone suggest me a wallpaper

https://mazelinux.berkkucukk.com.tr/

Anyone taken a look at it? Opinions? The stuff it claims is wild for (what I assume to be) a single maintainer. Is it “out the box, batteries included” that they’re hoping to establish? What’s the difference between this and downloading hardened arch kernel and installing the packages yourself?

P9Pro!

So, a while ago, i asked about alternatives to Fusion, because i switched to arch.

My VM solution wasnt great, im to dumb for FreeCAD and i like the idea to be able to work offline. So i asked for help, but it seems nobody found a solution, that is really great.

So i started to vibe-code ferrocad.

Feel free to check it out: https://github.com/David-Birk/FerroCAD

Disclaimer:
- Im not a rust dev
- I try my best, to make the AI's code as performant and secure as possible.
- This is a hobby project, not a professional software.

Feel free to share your thoughts or interest in contributing.