1 Year with Arch Linux

Hey everyone,

It’s been almost a year since I started using Arch Linux, and I thought I’d share a bit of the journey—because it’s been a wild one.

GRUB rescue? Happened to me 5 times. Each time I felt like a hacker and a total beginner.

Reinstalled Arch? At least 2 times—one because I messed up the partitions, another time chasing that "perfect" setup.

Got stuck? Easily 5+ times. From missing Wi-Fi drivers to broken updates, to figuring out why the DE won’t start… I’ve seen the dark side.


But here’s the thing: every time I broke something, I learned something. Now I’ve got a clean, minimal, and custom Arch setup running exactly the way I want. And yes… I do say “I use Arch, btw” sometimes.

Thanks to the forums, wikis,gpt , claude and the amazing community here that helped me survive the chaos.



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How are distros able to charge despite open source license?

So saw this article and it got me wondering...

How is it that anything with the Linux kernel as base is able to be charged for?

'Back in the day' I thought it was that the distro had to be free but they can charge for support. But now you have a list of distros that you in theory can't use unless you buy a license for it?

What gives? Did something in the license change or something?

Link,
https://www.howtogeek.com/paid-linux-distros/


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Tired of manually editing .bashrc for every alias? I made a noscript to set shell aliases quickly
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I created my basic terminal shell to apply the theory

Hey everyone, since I am freshman, I get theory so often. I wanted to improve my skills instead of just listening to theory in college, and online videos so I created a minimal custom terminal shell. I added basic unix commands, chain commands, redirection, command history, and built-in commands to it. It would be great if you check it out, and give feedback about how can I improve it or which path should I follow in development. Check it out: https://github.com/sundanc/sdn

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1 year of Linux

Hi!
Let me preface this with the fact that I've been using linux for ages, primarily for my home server but also through my job as a sysadmin, I also used to run Antergos on my laptop ages ago, and tried to move my desktop over to arch many times, but never stuck with it.

One year ago, when nvidia finally released their drivers with explicit sync support I moved over to Arch from Windows, which like I mentioned I'd been trying to do many times but never stuck with it due to primarily XOrg based issues. Finally with the 555 beta driver release I tried again, and I instantly loved it, I went from a W10 LTSC IoT install to pure minimal arch and setup hyprland on top of it, and I absolutely loved it. There were definitely issues, but it was easily worth it.

In this year since then I've moved over to CachyOS (since it's close enough to base arch but has some nice defaults and I like the fact that they have architecture optimized packages), stayed with hyprland and set up my system absolutely perfectly.

I will probably never roll back to Windows again, and not because Linux is "good enough" but because Windows is bad, I honestly hate every second that I touch Windows, it doesn't let me work the way I want, it takes control away from me and worst of all it treats me like I am an idiot on a higher level than MacOS does.

2024 was the year of the Linux desktop, at least for me, and I hope 2025 will be the same for even more people!


EDIT: I've since moved to AMD graphics on my main system, currently running a 9070 XT

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Any experience with Laptops?

Hey there.

I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with Linux in Laptops.

I want to get a good Laptop that will last a while. I have been looking at Tuxedo and ThinkPad laptops. With similar specs tuxedo is much cheaper. But everyone always seems to go for Thinkpads.

Has anyone ever had a chance to test tem both side by side?
Whats the quality difference? And is tuxedo even good.

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Open Source Can’t Coordinate
https://matklad.github.io/2025/05/20/open-source-cant-coordinate.html

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Bluefin/Aurora now have live ISOs & new installer
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Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-rhel-10

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Why btfrs snapshots on grub are not more common as preinstalled?

I'm quite familiar user of Linux but still quite common that some update or setting change breaks down something. Login might not work, some application might not work and it takes in worst case hours to get it working again.

Overall btfrs filesystem is not very common on live installers but secondly it much more less common to support to grub directly.

Changed to garuda few days ago and this is all built in, already had some random issue after tinkering around with some settings file. Just rebooted and went back 1 hour selecting from grub, everything works and no wasted time tinkering around with some bullshit software settings file.

I would see this kind of view on Linux would help tons of common user.


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goeuropean.org is now open source - and we need your help!
https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1kr9sbo/goeuropeanorg_is_now_open_source_and_we_need_your/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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General Availability of AlmaLinux 9.6 Stable!
https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-20-almalinux_96_release/

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Aliases. Who uses them?

I'm the alias king. My .bash_aliases are full of aliases.

I use them to shorten command line commands, and I use them to replace output from standard commands.

I think my most favorite aliases are the ones that replace exa with ls. So, I installed exa because I think it looks a little bit nicer rather than the standard ls command. (Sorry, I'm entering this on my phone so I can't do any special tricks with the text here... I may edit this later). So that alias "ls" uses a command using exa with a nice color scheme and formatting. It just looks a lot nicer than the standard "ls" or "ls -lha".

My other favorite alias is the type where I change a standard commands and make it shorter. I use yt-dlp to download videos. But I created an alias where all I have to do is type "yt" then paste the link and it downloads it to my computer. It saves me 4 key strokes.

Believe it or not, I think that's a really nice feature in linux. I don't know if you can do that in windows at the command line but I'm not sure if people even use the command line in windows anymore
I always thought it was a shame when they pulled the command line out of its main subsystem. It's still there but I think its purpose is for the rare occasion where you HAVE to use the command line. I, for one, really liked the C: prompt. DOS commands were the best. I used Norton Commander all the time. Now I replaced it with Midnight Commander in Linux. It's pretty slick.

So, what are your favorite aliases?

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What distro is this?
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I can't recommend Linux to my peers because of AutoCAD :(

I know that there are alternatives, but many engineering colleges actually have made it the core standard to use AutoCAD. It's even the industry standard for decades.

There are chip simulation software which are NATIVELY available on Linux (cadence, virtuso, xschem). Besides, these design tools are exclusively run on a server.

It's amazing that Linux has progressed a lot in the field of high-performance computing, but these essential engineering tools don't have a Linux version just because the devs don't want to.

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Will anybody be trying the KDE distro when it is fully released?

The folk behind KDE are making a distro specific to KDE, here's a link to the wiki if you've not heard anything about it:

https://community.kde.org/KDE\_Linux#Roadmap

I've spent a fair bit of time switching from distro to distro and I've settled on Arch for all the benefits it has, if I want or need to change for whatever reason I'd go back to Mint or Debian knowing I will have a super stable system that is basically "plug and play" - something that Arch generally isn't in comparison. When this new distro has had a stable release for a while and people have had a chance to look into any bugs that are present I want to give it a go myself and potentially stick with it due to KDE being my favourite desktop.

I haven't seen much news on this aside from the odd article or Reddit post so I'm curious as to how many people plan on at least giving it a try

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Dero miner spreads inside containerized Linux environments
https://securelist.com/dero-miner-infects-containers-through-docker-api/116546/

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stand up normal users

Hello, I have been using Linux for sometime now a couple of months yet in this time I managed to learn and do a lot, overall I fell in love with Linux and this whole post is just my opinion by the flair: discussion you are allowed to disagree.

this subject that I will talk about is from experience so yes I tried all these doesn't make me an expert, but I did use this software for a little bit

I have a philosophy in software that good software is either good entertainment like games or useful like web browsers and I think that Linux now has reached a point where a normal user could use it daily without opening the terminal once and that is great, but I think that this is just still not common knowledge enough yet especially with the memes like "installing a browser on Linux be like" and there are like fifty terminals open.

And I think part of that is because most users who do speak of Linux or the most known in the community use hardcore Linux and always show their rice of hyprland of neovim etc and that isn't a bad thing many new comers to Linux came because of this customization like pewdiepie sorry if I typed the name wrong, but also these users most of them at least gate keep all of their knowledge and just say "read the docs"

and I tried to configure hyprland, but I realized that it's not for me and that doing simple tasks on it are just too much for a normal user who would think that this is all that Linux has to offer and I did configure neovim and used it for sometime and it was great I moved back tho not the fault of neovim or that it was too hard to maintain from my experience I just didn't want to use it.

what I am meaning to say is normal users like me who just use their laptops normally even if not the most flashy should still speak up about how Linux is a viable option without all the ricing and this is not to dis anybody who rices or uses these things if you want to take it as a hobby or it makes you more productive or you just enjoy it that is fine I understand why some people use these and software like arch, hyprland, etc should stay hard because that is what is expected and needed from them to be customizable.

I just wanted to share my opinion if you have any other views that is fine and I respect them open discussions all you want in the comments and share your opinions if you want, but please stay respectful.

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Are people actually switching or just "li-curious"?
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I was at a Zap Zone with friends yesterday and I realized the machines in the mini golf were running on Ubuntu
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AMD To Focus On Better ROCm Linux Experience In H2-2025
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-H2-2025

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