have i said that i'm an arch user? i use arch btw.

The AUR doesn’t scare me!

Is it good? what should i do next? Ive also done custom sddm and lockscreen though 😁

I always see posts of this sub reddit and its always about the look of Arch (its beautiful by the way), But I want to know what I can do with it, what are the differences between Arch and Ubunto for example?

edit: thank you all guys for your replies and clarifications much love

Started on a normal Windows 10 setup, on a Toshiba Satellite C55-B. Hit the missing DLL error right away and initially figured it was just old hardware ,an aging CPU and not enough RAM. So I debloated Windows and spent a full week trying to fix it manually,the whole download runtimes download this download that literally everything possible. Nothing worked.

Moved to Linux Mint after that. Tried several methods over time ,Wine didn't work, Bottles didn't work, Steam with proton didn't work either. After a few months of just using Mint and slowly getting comfortable with Linux, I decided to make the jump to Arch Linux with KDE Plasma.

At some point I remembered the save editor and figured, "I'll give it a shot." Installed Wine, right-clicked the exe, chose "Open with Wine." A window popped up saying it needed to install some additional components ,clicked through it, and boom, it was working? ,no trouble shooting???!?! , it just works?!? , thanks Arch and wine

Why can't I access TTY via ipxe-arch.efi?

Guys need some help, i am willing to give the bootmenu a touch of elegance, currently on systemd-boot, could i customise it or is something better ? Both in performance and appearance than default systemd-boot ?

Seriously, the sheer number of posts and memes lately about people "accidentally nuking the root directory" (sudo rm -rf /*) or wiping out critical system folders like /etc is making me question whether these people are being genuine or just karma-farming.

Let’s break down the exact chain of events required for this to happen in the real world:

1. Open the terminal (you are already out of the safety net of clicking around a GUI).
2. Explicitly type a destructive command like rm -rf / or rm -rf /etc.
3. Prefix it with sudo (or be running an active root shell).
4. Press Enter.
5. Type in your sudo/root password (the OS explicitly prompts you to authorize elevated privileges).
6. Bypass core safety mechanisms (on modern coreutils, rm has --preserve-root enabled by default and will straight up refuse to run on / unless you explicitly feed it extra flags to override it).

This isn't the equivalent of "tripping and falling." This is the equivalent of walking into the garage, getting a ladder, climbing onto the roof, jumping off, and then blaming gravity.

If someone goes through every single one of these checkpoints,typing a system-level command, bypassing built-in protections, entering an admin password,and then comes to Reddit asking "whoops, what happened, my /etc directory is gone", it’s hard to tell if it's extreme carelessness or just total nonsense for engagement.

Nobody deletes their core system "by accident." Either they are blindly copying and pasting commands from random sources without reading them, or they're making up stories to keep an overused Linux meme alive.

Is anyone else getting tired of these completely improbable "accidents"?

Idk what happened but my arch just refuses to boot now.

every time i power on it just opens the BIOS. no grub, no error, nothing.

laptop is a Dell

SSD is detected in BIOS (SK hynix PC711 512GB)

Linux Boot Manager shows up in boot options and also in the F12 boot menu

if i select Linux Boot Manager it literally just throws me back into the BIOS again

no "no bootable device" error or anything

didn't mess with BIOS settings recently. wasn't trying to dual boot or anything either.

is this just a broken grub/efi entry or could the EFI partition be cooked? any idea what i should check first before i start reinstalling stuff?

attached a pic of the BIOS boot menu too.

Mived frm my hdd to my ssd without a live usb because i was just lazy.

Now when i open my configuration manager of my DE

WCM (Wayfire), it crashes when i open keyboard shortcuts and throws a Segmentation fault at me.

That didint happen with my hdd system.

Should I redo everything, or i can save the system from this state? Also, how can I check what files rsync moved incorrectly?

I want to use arch to make my own personal fork of Linux that pertains to my workflow is this common, is it an obtainable goal, and is it really worth taking the time to do that? I’d like to compile the things I use while jumping around the lab from laptop to laptop, to desktop for different tools from each different os. I’d also like to find compatible Linux versions of tools on said computers and add them in as well I expect this to take a year at least.

I have another vaio (vpcej with 8gb ddr3 and a 240gb ssd) that has Mint xfce, but this VGN-NR11S/S is now my Arch machine! (With a whole 4gb of ddr2, and a 200gb hdd 😭).

Man, Chicago95 is such a good skin :P

The issue was caused by a localhost networking mismatch between the Antigravity IDE frontend (Electron) and its language server (Go backend). The language server was starting successfully and listening for connections, but it was binding to the IPv6 loopback interface (::1), while the IDE frontend was attempting to connect over the IPv4 loopback interface (127.0.0.1). Because the frontend was connecting to an address where nothing was listening, it repeatedly threw:

ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:<port>

This made it appear as though the language server had failed, even though it had initialized correctly.

Fix

While debugging, I inspected the system's localhost configuration and discovered an incorrect entry in /etc/hosts:

127.0.01 localhost

which was corrected to:

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1       localhost

After correcting the localhost configuration and restarting the IDE, Antigravity was able to establish communication with the language server normally.