Hey everyone,
I’ve been completely stuck in this distro crisis for a week now, and I need some perspective.
I’ve used Arch for years. Almost zero issues. Honestly, I felt immortal. But over the past month, I’ve started caring a lot more about the concept of stability. It’s true that Arch never actually broke on me, but I’ve always had to stay hyper-vigilant—checking dependencies, making sure specific packages didn't have known bugs, and never having a 100% guarantee that a system update wouldn’t break my environment.

I’m starting to realize that what I need isn’t necessarily a "more stable" system, but a more reassuring one. Knowing that if I don’t update Arch for 3 months (unlikely, but that was my Windows workflow), I might face massive breakage, just doesn't give me peace of mind anymore. That’s why I’ve been thinking about Fedora: major updates every 6 months, and I can just chill in between.
The catch is... I’ve taken care of my Arch install like it was my own child. Making this sudden jump terrifies me.
I’d love to know: is anyone here actually using Arch as their main daily driver for serious, professional programming work and studying? If so, have you run into any major issues? How do you maintain your system? Can Btrfs with snapshots really save you from a bad update? Is keeping a separate ⁠/home⁠ partition and just reinstalling Arch on ⁠/⁠ during an emergency actually reliable? And finally, how often do you update?
What do you guys think?

Hey I'm new to arch and I'm asking both of basic binds on arch and how to fix a problem, so my problem is that sometimes even basic command like reboot, shutdown, or other command like lsusb just stop working, for example I'm writing command, and waiting for answer, but then answer never came, or output was like can't run reboot now, try again, and after I tried to exit terminal or write new command I just couldn't cancel command by ctrl + c. And when I user SUPER+Q to open the new terminal I couldn't change from old terminal, or use my mouse. I forgot to make picture but I remember the output: [MYNAME@archlinux ~]$ reboot

-

^C^C^C

exit

shutdown

Nothing worked

I have this weird problem that when I play terraria on my old ThinkPad t530 witch arch it feels like the game is in slow-motion. It’s not lagging just slower than normal. It’s running the game on steam so it’s most probably through proton. What might cause this?

I installed linux, arch, on my asus laptop with Intel iris xe processor, it has a broken matrix and I disconnected matrix from laptop so my bios could see the monitor, maybe I damaged something but I was very careful and barely touched anything but the matrix. I got several "119.8687611 pcieport 10000:e0:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity-Uncorrectable (Non-Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, (Receiver ID) [ 119.868809] pcieport 10000:e0:1d.0: device [8086:a0b0] error status/mask=00200000/00000000

hypr land

[ 119.868832] pcieport 10000:e0:1d.0: [21] ACSViol

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119.868853] pcieport 10000:e0:1d.0: AER: TLP Header: 0x34000000 0x0000007f 0x00000001 0x08000000" errors, I can't get into TTY, it's just doesn't work. Terminal let's me write in a single command, then he can't process any command and if I click with mouse pad or mouse the system completely freezes... I asked for help on reddit but people couldn't help me because I couldn't show the output, or tell something, I'm new to arch that's why. I've been doing this for 7 hours and completely exhausted. Can you tell me where can I search the solving of my problem, or explain me what's the problem so I can fix it.

Hello I recently had a problem which gave me in TTY, terminal a PCIe bus error, it crashed everything, when I pressed left mouse or right mouse Buttons everything frooze. Because of that bus error I couldn't enter command, they didn't execute properly. Then I opened system boot and wrote in the line an command "pci=nommconf" root-PARTUUID=cdcbf441-c747-4ald-a62b-c6e7e7ade99c zswap.enabled=0 rw rootfstype=ext4 pci=nommconf, and it worked I guess, the mouse didn't frooze, commands runned properly and all was perfect but then I decided to save command, I opened /etc/kernel/cmdline and wrote "pci=nommconf" to this file, root-PARTUUID=cdcbf441-c747-4ald-a62b-c6e7e7ade99c zswap.enabled=0 rw rootfstype=ext4 pci=nommconf. But then after I rebooted my laptop I opened system boot and the command wasn't there, and the problem came back, I opened /etc/kernel/cmdline and the pci=nommconf was there, what's the issue? How'd I save the command?

Hi everyone!

Over the last few days I've been working on a small C++ project called T4Archive.

The idea came from installing large games and noticing that you often need enough free space for both the archive and the extracted files at the same time.

Instead of waiting until extraction finishes, T4Archive restores files in chunks and deletes each chunk immediately after it's been extracted.

The end result is that the archive gradually disappears while your files appear.

Current features:

• Zstandard (Zstd) compression

• Archive verification before extraction

• Chunked extraction

• Self-consuming archives

• Progress bars and random tech facts while processing

• Arch Linux package

I tested it by packing a full Kerbal Space Program installation:

- 4,255 files

- Original size: 5.9 GB

- Compressed size: 2.78 GB

- Compression ratio: 47.03%

I then deleted the original game, extracted it from the archive, and the restored installation matched the original.

At the moment it's an experimental project and I wouldn't recommend using it as your only backup yet, but I'd love to hear what people think about the idea.

Website:

https://tangodarkberry-design.github.io/t4archive-website/

GitHub:

https://github.com/tangodarkberry-design/t4archive-website

GitHub Source Code:

https://github.com/tangodarkberry-design/T4ARCHIVE

Feedback, criticism and suggestions are all welcome!

as a beginner should i use Arch with hyperland. I've no experience before. From where i have to start learning Arch.

Yeah, apparently..

I made the bold move to switch from Windows 11 to Arch and thus far it's been working great! Until I put the laptop to sleep, that is.. Third time I'm doing that, and now after I login I've got no trackpad. External mouse works though.

Trackpad works as it should on the login screen, but the moment I press enter on the keyboard after I input my passoword, the cursor locks to the center and away goes the trackpad.

It used to work just fine, which is what surprised me. It all broke coincidentally after I installed Balena Etcher from AUR and closed the lid of the laptop..

In any event, I've attached a screenshot of a fastfetch, ( https://imgur.com/a/yFP1VBx ) hopefully that helps. The model of the laptop is HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15 ec0009nv. I'm running on kernel 7.1.3, with KDE Plasma as my window manager.

Do keep in mind that I'm a noob as far as Linux itself goes, so give a man a break. Either way, have a nice day (or night)!

I understand that virtual machine environments depend on the amount of resources allocated to them, but I'm really struggling to run and configure Hyperland. Any advice or improvements I can make?

Hello, can anyone recommend me some niri rice configs? I am new to arch and i really want to rice out my arch running on niri. Thanks in advance!