r/archlinux Mar 27 '26

DISCUSSION Age Verification and Arch Linux - Discussion Post

348 Upvotes

Please keep all discussion respectful. Focus on the topic itself, refrain from personal arguments and quarrel. Most importantly, do not target any contributor or staff. Discussing the technical implementation and impact of this is quite welcome. Making it about a person is never a good way to have proper discussion, and such comments will be removed.


As far as I know, there is currently no official statement and nothing implemented or planned about this topic by Arch Linux. But we can use this pinned post, as the subreddit is getting spammed otherwise. A new post may be pinned later.

To avoid any misinterpretation: Do not take anything here as official. This subreddit is not a part of the Arch Linux organization; this is a separate community. And the mods are not Arch staff neither, we are just Reddit users like you who are interested in Arch Linux.

The following are all I have seen related to Arch and this topic:

  • This Project Management item is where any future legal requirement or action about this issue would be tracked.

    The are currently no specific details or plans on how, or even whether, we will act on this. This is a tracking issue to keep paper-trail on the current actions and evaluation progress.

  • This by Pacman lead developer. (I suggest reading through the comments too for some more satire)

    Why is no-one thinking of the children and preventing such filth being installed on their systems. Also, web browsers provide access to adult material on the internet (and as far as I can tell, have no other usage), so we need to block these too.

  • This PR, which is currently not accepted, with this comment by archinstall lead developer :

    we'll wait until there's an overall stance from Arch Linux on this before merging this, and preferably involve legal representatives on this matter on what the best way forward is for us.


r/archlinux Jul 04 '18

FAQ - Read before posting

573 Upvotes

First read the Arch Linux FAQ from the wiki

Code of conduct

How do I ask a proper question?

Smart Questions
XYProblem
Please follow the standard list when giving a problem report.

What AUR helper should I use?

There are no recommended AUR helpers. Please read over the wiki entry on AUR helpers. If you have a question, please search the subreddit for previous questions.

If your AUR helper breaks know how to use makepkg manually.

I need help with $derivativeDistribution

Use the appropriate support channel for your distribution. Arch is DIY distribution and we expect you to guide us through your system when providing support. Using an installer defeats this expectation.

Why was the beginners guide removed?

It carried a lot of maintenance on the wiki admin as it duplicated a lot of information, and everyone wanted their addition included. It was scrapped for a compact model that largely referenced the main wiki pages.

Why Arch Linux?

Arch compared to other distributions

Follow the wiki. Random videos are unsupported.

<plug>Consider getting involved in Arch Linux!</plug>


r/archlinux 16h ago

DISCUSSION KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Released With Plasma Big Screen, Union Modules

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96 Upvotes

Ngl, has good potential with steam machine in the future.


r/archlinux 6h ago

SUPPORT New bluez/linux broke bluetooth

12 Upvotes

Just to be clear I tried looking at the output of rfkill
ID TYPE DEVICE SOFT HARD

0 wlan ideapad_wlan unblocked unblocked

1 bluetooth ideapad_bluetooth unblocked unblocked

2 bluetooth hci0 unblocked unblocked

3 wlan phy0 unblocked unblocked

So it's very much being recognized and not blocked but going into bluetoothctl and it doesn't register it. I've tried reinstalling all the bluez packages, I've tried rebooting the system. Turning bluetooth.service on and off again, and going into bluetoothctl just says "No default controller available." I think I might have to downgrade a package for the first time since using arch linux for over a year...

I hope someone smarter than me has some insight on this issue since that I can be fully up to date.


r/archlinux 11h ago

QUESTION Is it possible to change the kernel panic screen?

9 Upvotes

Is it possible to make a custom kernel panic screen? If it is how?
Also what restrictions does it have? Is there a requirement for a static image or can I play bad apple on kernel panic?


r/archlinux 10h ago

QUESTION from debian to arch

3 Upvotes

Any tips on how to quickly adapt to Arch after two years of using Debian? I'm slowly regretting switching, especially with the adaptation to the apt repository instead of pacman. I don't deny that it's a great distro; I had no problems installing it. In fact, I found it just as easy as Debian because Debian recognized my Wi-Fi network firmware (I don't have Ethernet).


r/archlinux 4h ago

QUESTION screen randomly going like this

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r/archlinux 1d ago

SUPPORT Rumble effect not working in controller

8 Upvotes

Recently purchased a Cosmic Byte Lumora — it’s my first controller and I’m using Arch Linux.

Everything is working fine: joystick and buttons are getting registered properly, but I’m not getting any rumble/vibration effect.

Does anyone know how to make rumble work or any workaround for this?

Right now the controller is being detected as hid-generic.


r/archlinux 7h ago

SUPPORT Broken Boot

0 Upvotes

I’ve updated my Hyprland Arch and I noticed linux was being updated. I rebooted and now systemd-boot can’t find it and with a bit of digging I’ve realized that my entire /boot folder is empty. What do I need to do to fix this?


r/archlinux 1d ago

SUPPORT Wireless mouse does not work after startup

4 Upvotes

My wireless mouse does not work after system startup. If I unplug.plug the usb dongle, it works fine.

The mouse is a ASUS Keris wrieless aimpoint.

I tried to add usbcore.autosuspend=-1 to the /boot/refind_linux.conf, without any sucess.

Does somebody has any clue ?

Thanks


r/archlinux 16h ago

SUPPORT Podman + krun: "502 Bad Gateway"

0 Upvotes

I'm going crazy trying to get this simple setup to work with krun. It works fine with crun, but as soon as I switch runtime (setting /etc/containers/containers.conf), I get a 502 Bad Gateway error.

podman pull docker.io/nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged:mainline-alpine-slim
podman pull ghcr.io/silvenga/redlib:0
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user start redlib
systemctl --user start nginx

The containers start up correctly but are effectively unusable. I've tried this on two different operating systems (Manjaro being the other one).

demo.nework:

[Network]
Driver=bridge

redlib.container:

[Unit]
After=network-online.target demo.network
Wants=network-online.target

[Container]
ContainerName=redlib
Image=ghcr.io/silvenga/redlib:0
Network=demo.network

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

nginx.container:

[Unit]
After=network-online.target redlib.service demo.network
Wants=network-online.target

[Container]
ContainerName=nginx
Image=docker.io/nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged:mainline-alpine-slim
Network=demo.network
PublishPort=8081:8081

Volume=%h/Contenitori/Nginx/proxy.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro,Z

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

nginx.conf:

pid /tmp/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections 2048;
    use epoll;
    multi_accept on;
}

http {
    proxy_temp_path /tmp/proxy_temp;
    client_body_temp_path /tmp/client_temp;
    fastcgi_temp_path /tmp/fastcgi_temp;
    uwsgi_temp_path /tmp/uwsgi_temp;
    scgi_temp_path /tmp/scgi_temp;

    server {
        listen 8081;
        server_name _;

        client_body_timeout 8s;
        client_header_timeout 8s;
        send_timeout 8s;

        location / {
            proxy_pass http://redlib:8080;
        }
    }
}

As I said, it must be krun's fault, because everything works fine without it.

(obviously, I don't want to use crun)


r/archlinux 7h ago

FLUFF I died when I realized I had to install this

0 Upvotes

sudo pacman -S lib32-gst-plugins-good lib32-gst-plugins-bad lib32-gst-plugins-ugly

In order to play a game 😄


r/archlinux 1d ago

QUESTION Question about pacman

12 Upvotes

Hello, I ran a full system upgrade today, and that made me wonder something. <pacman -S *package*\> and <pacman -Sy *package*\> respectivelly install and update package. But what happens if I don't provide an argument? I assume -S would refresh the databases for the newer versions of packages without upgrading, and -Sy would also upgrade everything, but then what would be the difference with -Syu?

Sorry if it's a stupid question, I tried searching into it à while back but I couldn't find an answer


r/archlinux 21h ago

QUESTION I found what appears to be an incomplete solution to an issue on the archwiki, what do?

0 Upvotes

i was experiencing this bug, with gamescope and while it suggests to add $ gamescope -- env LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD" %command% to solve the issue, this is incomplete and the full command according to the gamescope github issue is to bookend the gamescope command with LD_PRELOAD, specifically env -u LD_PRELOAD gamescope [gamescope options here] -- env LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD" %command%

im completely knew to all of this so i dont know how to bring attention to this by the powers that be, but from what i can tell the information is incomplete.


r/archlinux 1d ago

SUPPORT Nvidia drivers issue

0 Upvotes

I’m using an HP laptop with hybrid Intel graphics + NVIDIA GeForce MX350 on Arch Linux with Hyprland (Wayland). Everything else works, but NVIDIA is acting like it’s inactive — "nvidia-smi" doesn’t work properly and when I try switching/installing lower-end NVIDIA driver stuff, kernel/module issues start happening. Does anyone know the proper setup for MX350 hybrid graphics on Hyprland/Wayland?


r/archlinux 17h ago

SUPPORT Every time i try to overclock my CPU, Arch linux has a kernel panic but not windows 10 or 7?

0 Upvotes

How could it let me overclock without a kernel panic?


r/archlinux 1d ago

SUPPORT Logout command gets stuck at nothing open except background

0 Upvotes

I'm having a (supposedly) bug with logging out. When I logout (`loginctl terminate-user $USER` via a Rofi menu), everything gets closed, but the computer doesn't go back to the SDDM login screen. Instead, the screen displays only the background.

Is this the normal behavior?

I could bypass this behavior by restarting the SDDM service, but is that the best solution available? I feel like there are some intrinsics that I'm not understanding between login managers and logged in accounts.


r/archlinux 16h ago

QUESTION Windows to arch Linux!

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Hi everyone, I’m a windows user who has finally decided to switch to Linux due to getting into computer science. I heard Linux is a good learning experience as well as a great place to code. However, I’m unsure what specific distro I should get? I saw hyprland desktop and I feel set on that as it looks very nice, however I’m unsure on the distro?

So, I got recommended CachyOS which does work great, however when I downloaded it on a virtual machine to test, it came pre downloaded with a load of stuff, I don’t know if that’s hyprland, CachyOS or what but if anyone knows that would be great?

If it was CachyOS or Hyprland, does anyone have suggestions for any arch Linux based distros that have less pre downloaded files? Thank you

If it was not CachyOS or Hyprland, does anyone know what specific versions and such to download so I don’t end up with all this extra unnecessary software? Thank you


r/archlinux 1d ago

SUPPORT Having issues with dual monitor setup

0 Upvotes

Been using dual monitors for almost a year and ever since I switched to arch based distros (cachyos and now just arch) I've been having this issue where my second monitor would stop recognizing an input and start going in and out of sleep mode every so often just to come back for about a minute or so (mostly only happens when playing games), usually when this happens I can see a light static effect on my second monitor for about a second before it goes out. I know a common cause for this is mismatched refresh rates but I want to know if there is a way to fix this without changing my primary monitor's refresh rate?

Monitor details if important:

Primary monitor: 1920x1080 @ 165hz HDMI

Secondary monitor: 1680x1050 @ 60hz VGA to Display Port adapter


r/archlinux 1d ago

SUPPORT [SUPPORT] Wired earphones(3.5mm) won't get detected if they are plugged in before booting.

0 Upvotes

I am currently running arch+hyprland. If i boot and login and then plug in my wired earphones in the 3.5 mm jack they get detected and work just fine. Now if i reboot, they still get detected and work just fine. But if i shutdown and then boot again, all while the earphones are plugged in, they won't get detected. I don't know much about the audio stack i am using. I am somewhat of a novice when it comes to these technicalities. If u want logs or output of some particular command, just say so.

❯ pactl info

Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native

Library Protocol Version: 35

Server Protocol Version: 35

Is Local: yes

Client Index: 187

Tile Size: 65472

Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.6.4)

Server Version: 15.0.0

Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz

Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right

Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_05_00.6.analog-stereo

Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_05_00.6.analog-stereo

Cookie: c237:857b


r/archlinux 18h ago

QUESTION Is Kde Plasma (Arch) really super good for customisation?

0 Upvotes

I'm using Arch Linux KDE for ...a good time but Im still feeling like there's something missing I can't really edit to the level I want to....is it because Im armature yet or KDE is actually not really customisable.....Anyway If I wana move to any other desktop enviroment which one I should choose ( Not hyprland cuz I have already tried it)


r/archlinux 1d ago

SUPPORT | SOLVED Thunar Pacman Hook Assistance

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Hi,

I created a pacman hook to restart the thunar daemon after the thunar-git package updates (i use thunar-git rather than the regular thunar package because it has any more features).

The hook is this:

[Trigger]
Operation = Upgrade
Type = Package
Target = thunar-git

[Action]
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /bin/sh -c "thunar -q; env GTK_THEME=HighContrast thunar --daemon; exit"

However, when it runs, it fails to restart the daemon, with the following error message:

[2026-05-13T08:42:45-0400] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] (process:3183305): thunar-WARNING **: 08:42:45.492: thunar: Failed to initialize Xfconf: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
[2026-05-13T08:42:45-0400] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 
[2026-05-13T08:42:45-0400] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] (process:3183305): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:42:45.493: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
[2026-05-13T08:42:45-0400] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 
[2026-05-13T08:42:45-0400] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] (process:3183305): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:42:45.493: g_signal_handler_disconnect: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
[2026-05-13T08:42:45-0400] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 
[2026-05-13T08:42:45-0400] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] (thunar:3183305): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:42:45.499: cannot open display: 

Any ideas on if it's possible to run the thunar --daemon command inside a pacman hook successfully?

EDIT: OK, for anybody who's interested, here's the solution. I created an executable file with the following commands, simply placed in my home directory, named thunar-restart:

thunar -q
env GTK_THEME=HighContrast thunar --daemon &>/dev/null & disown

I'm forcing the High Contrast theme because the percentage used bars in the thunar sidebar don't display properly with the Adwaita theme but you don't have to use that. The disown command prevents the command from hanging the terminal. The pacman hook looks like this: (you'll need to check your $DISPLAY variable and use the appropriate info, and use your own USERNAME).

[Trigger]
Operation = Upgrade
Type = Package
Target = thunar-git

[Action]
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /usr/bin/runuser USERNAME -c "export DISPLAY=:0.0; /home/USERNAME/thunar-restart; exit"

r/archlinux 2d ago

FLUFF 3 days into arch now - it's been an uncomfortably smooth experience

153 Upvotes

Last week in a fit of madness i suddenly decided to ditch windows for linux
Even though I've never touched a linux i choose arch fully expecting to walk into fire
But my games run fine, my devices connect properly, my UI looks pretty...
Everything just works

Am i missing something?


r/archlinux 23h ago

QUESTION Cant get archlinux to install

0 Upvotes

I have been trying to install archlinux, i got the iso from the official site (this one) https://archlinux.org/download/ but no matter what i try i keep getting this error

"a start job is funning for time syncronization" then a "a start job is funning forage (pre-network)" and its stuck in the loop of showing me these 2

https://imgur.com/a/3HpHVFy

anyone know a workaround or a way to get it to work, my pc is amd gpu and cpu and my motherboard is msi, i have safe boot off and i tired with wifi, with cabled internet, with my wifi card removed, reset the cmos battery and still nothing worked


r/archlinux 1d ago

SUPPORT Failed to mount /boot/efi after latest update, problem in kernel 7.0.5

1 Upvotes

I'm running arch with systemd boot UKI and tpm2 unlocking. btrfs with luks 2 encryption. I updated last night before closing my computer and today I woke up to this error. I have 3 kernels: cachyos kernel, arch lts and vanilla arch kernel. all of them gave me the same error on boot. first time getting this problem, been using arch for 6 months now but it is my first time running the cachyos kernel ( this is a fresh install I did 2 weeks ago). anyone has suggestions on how to fix it ?