Dirge
@dyrge.bsky.social
Software snob from Las Vegas. CachyOS Hyprland on desktop. GrapheneOS on mobile.
Longtime gaming enjoyer. X4, Stellaris, and World of Warcraft take up a lion's share of my time.
Longtime gaming enjoyer. X4, Stellaris, and World of Warcraft take up a lion's share of my time.
As for tiling window managers like hyprland, they aren't something that I'd suggest to people that don't have the time to learn them thorougly.
There are easy setup scripts that can start you off in a good place but they're still complex and you might have trouble fixing any issues that occur.
There are easy setup scripts that can start you off in a good place but they're still complex and you might have trouble fixing any issues that occur.
December 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
As for tiling window managers like hyprland, they aren't something that I'd suggest to people that don't have the time to learn them thorougly.
There are easy setup scripts that can start you off in a good place but they're still complex and you might have trouble fixing any issues that occur.
There are easy setup scripts that can start you off in a good place but they're still complex and you might have trouble fixing any issues that occur.
I'm pretty sure it's a reference to car mod/racing culture where making aftermarket modifications, for either performance or purely cosmetic, to your car is called "ricing" because street racing culture originated in East Asia.
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I'm pretty sure it's a reference to car mod/racing culture where making aftermarket modifications, for either performance or purely cosmetic, to your car is called "ricing" because street racing culture originated in East Asia.
Wherever you got your information... I'd run in the opposite direction and burn the bridge behind you, never to be listened to again.
CachyOS's automated hardware detection is and has been one of its most important features.
wiki.cachyos.org/features/chw...
CachyOS's automated hardware detection is and has been one of its most important features.
wiki.cachyos.org/features/chw...
Managing Hardware with chwd
Hardware Detection and Configuration for CachyOS
wiki.cachyos.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Wherever you got your information... I'd run in the opposite direction and burn the bridge behind you, never to be listened to again.
CachyOS's automated hardware detection is and has been one of its most important features.
wiki.cachyos.org/features/chw...
CachyOS's automated hardware detection is and has been one of its most important features.
wiki.cachyos.org/features/chw...
I hope you do as well. These days Arch is a great place to cut your teeth and get your learn on in a hurry.
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I hope you do as well. These days Arch is a great place to cut your teeth and get your learn on in a hurry.
Librewolf is a privacy fork of Firefox that comes with all of the annoyances turned off by design. Is also in the CachyOS native repositories for easy installation.
The clearing all cookies unless whitelisted feature trips some up, but it can be reverted to normal Firefox behavior if you wish it.
The clearing all cookies unless whitelisted feature trips some up, but it can be reverted to normal Firefox behavior if you wish it.
December 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Librewolf is a privacy fork of Firefox that comes with all of the annoyances turned off by design. Is also in the CachyOS native repositories for easy installation.
The clearing all cookies unless whitelisted feature trips some up, but it can be reverted to normal Firefox behavior if you wish it.
The clearing all cookies unless whitelisted feature trips some up, but it can be reverted to normal Firefox behavior if you wish it.
For what it's worth, I don't use Plasma either. I'm on Hyprland but I do use sddm as my display manager.
So you're right there was probably a different important update that made it safe. But I did update around when I first replied to you and all is well.
No harm in waiting a couple days either!
So you're right there was probably a different important update that made it safe. But I did update around when I first replied to you and all is well.
No harm in waiting a couple days either!
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
For what it's worth, I don't use Plasma either. I'm on Hyprland but I do use sddm as my display manager.
So you're right there was probably a different important update that made it safe. But I did update around when I first replied to you and all is well.
No harm in waiting a couple days either!
So you're right there was probably a different important update that made it safe. But I did update around when I first replied to you and all is well.
No harm in waiting a couple days either!
Just a follow-up. The necessary package for the QT update to work correctly is "plasma-workspace-6.5.3-2" and it was updated about a half hour afterward, so everything should work fine now.
discuss.cachyos.org/t/qt6-upgrad...
discuss.cachyos.org/t/qt6-upgrad...
Qt6 upgrade to 6.10.1 breaks SDDM, Plasma. Delay upgrading until plasma-workspace-6.5.3-2
Err .. not so much? .. That ‘dependency cycle’ really was simply one package being installed before the other though it expects the other way around. Both get installed. It is only a notice. As per ...
discuss.cachyos.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Just a follow-up. The necessary package for the QT update to work correctly is "plasma-workspace-6.5.3-2" and it was updated about a half hour afterward, so everything should work fine now.
discuss.cachyos.org/t/qt6-upgrad...
discuss.cachyos.org/t/qt6-upgrad...
Depends on who you're talking to! I'd say you're safe if you reeeaaally wanted to.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Depends on who you're talking to! I'd say you're safe if you reeeaaally wanted to.
Arch Linux distros and Discover don't mix well.
Discover uses a different backend called packagekit to build packages that causes problems when combined with pacman packages which form the foundation of the system.
Discover can safely be used to manage Flatpaks and Snaps though.
Discover uses a different backend called packagekit to build packages that causes problems when combined with pacman packages which form the foundation of the system.
Discover can safely be used to manage Flatpaks and Snaps though.
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Arch Linux distros and Discover don't mix well.
Discover uses a different backend called packagekit to build packages that causes problems when combined with pacman packages which form the foundation of the system.
Discover can safely be used to manage Flatpaks and Snaps though.
Discover uses a different backend called packagekit to build packages that causes problems when combined with pacman packages which form the foundation of the system.
Discover can safely be used to manage Flatpaks and Snaps though.
By design, CachyOS Hello's app installer is quite limited in what you can install through it, but Octopi is a full graphical package manager that also comes preinstalled.
I wouldn't discourage anyone from learning to use the terminal, but Octopi should do nicely for those that want to avoid it.
I wouldn't discourage anyone from learning to use the terminal, but Octopi should do nicely for those that want to avoid it.
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
By design, CachyOS Hello's app installer is quite limited in what you can install through it, but Octopi is a full graphical package manager that also comes preinstalled.
I wouldn't discourage anyone from learning to use the terminal, but Octopi should do nicely for those that want to avoid it.
I wouldn't discourage anyone from learning to use the terminal, but Octopi should do nicely for those that want to avoid it.
That's Manjaro, not Arch Linux/CachyOS. The necessary library is available in the "extra" repository and this is why I found it strange that it wouldn't be installed for you alongside the AUR package. I tried it out and it worked fine for me.
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
That's Manjaro, not Arch Linux/CachyOS. The necessary library is available in the "extra" repository and this is why I found it strange that it wouldn't be installed for you alongside the AUR package. I tried it out and it worked fine for me.
Strange, it should just install the required dependency with it. You could system update and try again. Either just "paru" or "sudo pacman -Syu" will accomplish that.
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Strange, it should just install the required dependency with it. You could system update and try again. Either just "paru" or "sudo pacman -Syu" will accomplish that.
I'd personally recommend just using the web client at earth.google.com but if you must have it as a desktop client then it's available in the AUR(aur.archlinux.org/packages/goo...).
Installation can be done in the terminal with "paru -S google-earth-pro" or graphically in Octopi.
Installation can be done in the terminal with "paru -S google-earth-pro" or graphically in Octopi.
Google Earth
earth.google.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'd personally recommend just using the web client at earth.google.com but if you must have it as a desktop client then it's available in the AUR(aur.archlinux.org/packages/goo...).
Installation can be done in the terminal with "paru -S google-earth-pro" or graphically in Octopi.
Installation can be done in the terminal with "paru -S google-earth-pro" or graphically in Octopi.
That'd be my takeaway too. I'd recommend giving an Arch based distro a shot eventually. since there are advantages to the way it all pieces together. It's just not worth upending the way you feel comfortable doing your computing given all of the great options that currently exist.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
That'd be my takeaway too. I'd recommend giving an Arch based distro a shot eventually. since there are advantages to the way it all pieces together. It's just not worth upending the way you feel comfortable doing your computing given all of the great options that currently exist.
However, software sources like Flatpak and Snap will work fine since they operate independently from pacman, so if you were truly insistent on managing your applications with a more App Store like experience instead of the utilitarian Octopi, then those two could potentially fill the gap.
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
However, software sources like Flatpak and Snap will work fine since they operate independently from pacman, so if you were truly insistent on managing your applications with a more App Store like experience instead of the utilitarian Octopi, then those two could potentially fill the gap.
There's just an inherent disconnect between packagekit and pacman. It's always going to be there because that's just how it works. So unfortunately the answer to your question is no. Yes you can use it but it won't ever be simple and it would just introduce possible points of failure.
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
There's just an inherent disconnect between packagekit and pacman. It's always going to be there because that's just how it works. So unfortunately the answer to your question is no. Yes you can use it but it won't ever be simple and it would just introduce possible points of failure.
Since, by design, a rolling release distribution actively maintains all of its system software right alongside more forward facing user software, applications that operate adjacent to but are updated separately can upset the balance required to maintain system stability.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Since, by design, a rolling release distribution actively maintains all of its system software right alongside more forward facing user software, applications that operate adjacent to but are updated separately can upset the balance required to maintain system stability.
The issue with using the "GNOME Software" application on an Arch Linux system lies in the nature of the rolling release concept. Instead of using pacman to fetch software from the greater ecosystem, gnome-software uses something called packagekit instead. www.freedesktop.org/software/Pac...
PackageKit - Main Page
www.freedesktop.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The issue with using the "GNOME Software" application on an Arch Linux system lies in the nature of the rolling release concept. Instead of using pacman to fetch software from the greater ecosystem, gnome-software uses something called packagekit instead. www.freedesktop.org/software/Pac...
Octopi is not configuration software, but just a graphical way to interact with "pacman", Arch Linux's software manager and ecosystem. I'll just say pacman from now on but they can be used interchangeably other than Octopi also being able to interact with the AUR.
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Octopi is not configuration software, but just a graphical way to interact with "pacman", Arch Linux's software manager and ecosystem. I'll just say pacman from now on but they can be used interchangeably other than Octopi also being able to interact with the AUR.
Tough to reply to this since there appears to be some misconceptions built into the question. I'll try to get to the bottom of it so you can actually get a satisfactory answer. If I've misunderstood then please feel free to ignore me.
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Tough to reply to this since there appears to be some misconceptions built into the question. I'll try to get to the bottom of it so you can actually get a satisfactory answer. If I've misunderstood then please feel free to ignore me.
Have you tried a non-chromium based browser on the same computer to see if you still have the issue?
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Have you tried a non-chromium based browser on the same computer to see if you still have the issue?
Bluesky just hates my images I guess.
November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Bluesky just hates my images I guess.
I don't know what happened either. Anyway, the important one was just a screenshot of downgrade in use after "sudo downgrade lutris" as an example. I had a single version in my cache and there were 71 previous versions available to downgrade to drawn from the ALA(wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_L...).
November 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I don't know what happened either. Anyway, the important one was just a screenshot of downgrade in use after "sudo downgrade lutris" as an example. I had a single version in my cache and there were 71 previous versions available to downgrade to drawn from the ALA(wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_L...).
However, I wouldn't suggest this route for a beginner user anyway since it's unavoidably terminal based. Fortunately, snapshots are configured and populated automatically with CachyOS and are very simple to use.
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
However, I wouldn't suggest this route for a beginner user anyway since it's unavoidably terminal based. Fortunately, snapshots are configured and populated automatically with CachyOS and are very simple to use.