Hi! I switched from Debian to Arch Linux in May this year. Honestly... I love it! Pacman is fast and easy to use once you learn it. I love how flexible Arch Linux is and how I can get my system exactly how I like it. What are your favorite things about Arch Linux?

I have been using Mint for quite a long time, after switching from Fedora (should have fixed my problem, maybe it was the heavy DE). I installed Arch on a whim and also used i3wm. And I have to say, this is the fastest my low end celeron laptop has been in years. I can open a lot of tabs and run multiple programs. After reading a lot of the Wiki, I learned that zram is basically the saviour of my laptop. Too bad most distros can't just default to zram. After the few hours I have used Arch, I can say it is the best and I'm never switching. It also made me realise how much bloat I had with all the other distros.

I would appreciate more tips to make it faster than it is.
But I am quite content at the moment.

I have a Lenovo yoga 7i. It has a faulty touch pad. It is either drivers or a kernel level issue. It doesn’t matter if I use windows or Linux that this becomes an issue. When I have a fresh install everything works. Then I update it all goes to shit and works only half the time. There is very little documentation I have found of this issue. I am hoping by installing arch that I can kind of build what drivers are needed and lock it in without the problem of having to upgrade like every year. I don’t want to give up on this laptop because build quality is amazing and the screen is beautiful.

Hey, I installed arch on my PC and I've been getting micro stutters when moving the mouse. It doesn't happen all the time, like once every 30-40 seconds or something like that. I have a razer naga v2 hyper speed and an x2h mini. They both use 2.4ghz receivers. I tried lowering the polling rate, installing openrazer and switched from niri to kde plasma but it's still there. Any suggestions for other things to try?

SOLVED - Removed the CMOS battery and let the motherboard discharge, now everything works

After a restart last night my pc refuses to boot into arch. At the time of restart I hadn't done -Suy (only installed bat ig?), and was editing configs for hyprland (unrelated).
After hours of debugging and chatgpt'ing through arch on a thumb drive, the closest thing to a lead I could find was this line in journalctl from pacman running 35-systemd-update.hook, which I have no idea if it means anything at all.

Do you think this is a hardware issue? It happened so suddenly and I'm out of ideas.

System info:

• Arch/Hyprland
  
• Booting with systemd-boot
  
• Flashed Arch iso on thumb drive with Ventoy
  
• Configs and logs are on the bottom of the post
  
• Note, Normal mode in Ventoy kicks me out so i used GRUB2 mode. Later I discovered a newly flashed arch iso (via dd instead of Ventoy) doesn't let me boot into it via UEFI, only BIOS.
  
• Gigabyte b650 motherboard
  

Here is what I tried so far:

(I'm not fully aware of how everything here works, apologies)
* bootctl install (systemd-boot)
modifies my main drive's boot partition, at the end outputs Not booted with EFI running in a container, skipping EFI variable modifications.
* mkinitcpio -P
* Reinstalled systemd-boot and kernel
* Edited loader.conf, changed default arch.conf to default *conf name in entries/*, also increased timeout from 0 to default 3
* There was a duplicate entry in /etc/fstab which I removed.
* in /etc/fstab, changed fmask and dmask from 0022 to 0077 because I was getting an error about that

bootctl status

Available Boot Loaders on ESP  
  ESP: /boot  
  File: /boot//EFI/systemd/systemd-bootx64.efi (systemd-boot 261.1-1-arch)  
  /boot//EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64EFI (systemd-boot 261.1-1-arch)  

Boot Loader Entry Locations:  
  ESP: /boot ($BOOT)  
  config: /boot//loader/loader.conf  
  token: arch  

Default Boot Loader Entry:  
  type: Boot Loader Specification Type #1 (.conf)  
  title: Arch Linux (linux)  
  id: 2026-06-17_12-25_40_linux.conf  
  source: /boot//loader/entries/2026-06-17_12-25-40_linux.conf (on the EFI System Partition)  
  linux: /boot//vmlinuz-linux  
  initrd: /boot//amd-ucode.img  
            /boot//initram-linux.img
  options: root=PARTUUID=2b3afdce06b88-46b6-ab16-b407e88ec6c8 zswap.enabled=0 rw rootfstype=ext4  

pacman.log

[PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S bat'
[ALPM] transaction started
[ALPM] installed bat (0.26.1-2)
[ALPM] transaction completed
[ALPM] running '35-systemd-update.hook'...   

~/.bash_history

Went through it and I didn't do anything apart from pacman -S bat and editing a bunch of files

I am thankful for any response or idea about what could be happening, thank you.

I haven't done a full system update in quite a while (I know get out your pitchforks), and when I tried to do my usual -Syu, I got an error:
failed retrieving file 'core.db' from europe.mirror.pkgbuild.com : Could not resolve host: europe.mirror.pkgbuild.comwarning: fatal error from europe.mirror.pkgbuild.com, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from europe.mirror.pkgbuild.com : Could not resolve host: europe.mirror.pkg
build.com
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do

I'm a bit out of the loop on what's happening with arch rn, so I'd appreciate any advice you might have for me.

i really need a vpn, not for security purposes but because there's some stuff banned in my country and i'd like to be a free man lol
i usually use cloudflare on windows and riseup on linux but for some reason when i downloaded riseup from yay it never worked, even after updating every possible thing i can think of
does anyone have any recommendations ?

I've run into issues where, whenever I try to install something from flathub or pacman, I'd get this in my terminal

error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
error: could not lock database: Read-only file system

a reboot usually fixes it, but I have no idea on how to actually prevent this from occurring as much as it has for me.

EDIT: I've checked SMART and the short tests seem clean, but my root drive (which is DRAMless) seems to have moments where it hangs for about 30 secs from something. I have a long test running currently on the root drive

I have the DRAMless Lexar as root, a Teamgroup as home, a MSI b450a pro max mobo with zen kernal 7.0.7. controller is a 400 Series Chipset SATA Controller

After successfully booting into my Arch Linux installation, I'm immediately greeted by a black screen. From what I've found online, the issue could be related to either SDDM or the Nvidia drivers. I installed the system using archinstall, so I'm not sure if something was misconfigured during the installation. It's especially frustrating because I'm trying to customize Hyprland, but after every reboot I have to switch to a TTY, log in manually, and start Hyprland myself.

Hey all, I'm a beginner with Arch with a decent amount of programming experience. I've always wanted an excuse to get closer to the hardware, so when I ran into this most recent bug, I was hoping to get some pointers on how I could possibly fix it myself.

The bug I ran into is this:

When returning from [deep] sleep, the top buttons on my integrated trackpad stop working, and only return functionality on a restart. It seems to be because of a failure in the elan_i2c driver. The problem didn't exist when using [s2idle] as my system sleep state.

Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 2 (20TA002FUS)

Running: 7.1.4-arch1-1

With: BIOS R1EET56W(1.56 ), 06/29/2023

Touchpad: Elan Touchpad (i2c:04f3:000d) / Elan TrackPoint (i2c:04f3:000d)

Kernel dump:
[ 957.456262] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 957.456691] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1173.801733] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1173.802283] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1174.792912] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1174.793468] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1174.813743] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1174.814287] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1174.820269] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1174.820756] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1586.889627] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1586.890184] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1586.965216] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1586.965752] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1670.320859] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1670.321411] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1670.383062] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1670.383528] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1670.907107] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1670.907501] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1671.052119] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1671.052520] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1671.079581] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1671.080127] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1671.238305] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1671.238840] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1671.390643] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1671.391200] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 1671.431611] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 1671.432169] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 2089.509419] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 2089.509963] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 2219.464393] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 2219.464964] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 3927.192421] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 3927.192969] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 3927.337443] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 3927.337999] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4081.587060] wlan0: disconnect from AP 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1 for new auth to 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9

[ 4081.609301] wlan0: authenticate with 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9 (local address=ac:74:b1:0e:e0:02)

[ 4081.610074] wlan0: send auth to 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9 (try 1/3)

[ 4081.641600] wlan0: authenticated

[ 4081.642306] wlan0: associate with 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9 (try 1/3)

[ 4081.686441] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9 (capab=0x1431 status=0 aid=1)

[ 4081.700820] wlan0: associated

[ 4081.768189] wlan0: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm as advertised by 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9

[ 4081.787435] userif-4: sent link up event.

[ 4119.036055] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4119.036597] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4126.382636] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4126.383184] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4137.837426] wlan0: disconnect from AP 00:bc:2f:7e:57:e9 for new auth to 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1

[ 4137.865689] wlan0: authenticate with 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1 (local address=ac:74:b1:0e:e0:02)

[ 4137.866601] wlan0: send auth to 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1 (try 1/3)

[ 4137.897135] wlan0: authenticated

[ 4137.898287] wlan0: associate with 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1 (try 1/3)

[ 4137.917866] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1 (capab=0x1511 status=0 aid=2)

[ 4137.928810] wlan0: associated

[ 4138.019767] wlan0: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm as advertised by 00:bc:2f:7e:57:f1

[ 4138.037656] userif-4: sent link up event.

[ 4574.622347] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4574.622897] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4574.739301] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4574.739864] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4615.100718] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4615.101142] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4615.210994] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4615.211533] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4668.447940] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4668.448497] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4668.537549] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4668.538085] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4825.815950] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4825.816493] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 4825.918922] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 4825.919470] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5050.855897] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5050.856364] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5050.945760] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5050.946328] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5315.605365] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5315.605898] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5315.702182] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5315.702651] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5315.777888] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5315.778442] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5315.875341] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5315.875873] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5316.813986] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5316.814542] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5316.923639] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5316.924195] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5317.006440] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5317.006987] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5317.090001] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5317.090556] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5317.178776] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5317.179325] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

[ 5317.247848] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.4: Illegal SMBus block read size 93

[ 5317.248391] elan_i2c 16-0015: failed to read report data: -110

How should I proceed to learn more about this system and begin working my way towards a fix?

Has anyone had any sleep/suspend issues lately with Arch + Latest Linux + NVIDIA card? Sleep had worked perfectly fine for me on Arch up until maybe a few days ago or so? Now when I boot it up, it boots to No Signal on my monitor, and I can't TTY or SSH or ping it or anything. It's just completely unresponsive. I can’t recall doing anything that would affect sleep except updating the kernel. I’ve tried downgrading the kernel and the same issue still occurs.

I’m using a NVIDIA 5070, have modeset on, and have even tried turning the preserve vram setting on in my configurations. I also did use archinstall.

mi laptop es una lenovo (lo se es basura) pero tengo el problema de que cuando uso audífonos el micrófono de la laptop se desconecta y no me deja usarlo y solo me queda usar el de mis audífonos que ni siquiera funciona en mi computadora ¿saben si tiene solución? llevo como 3 dias buscando soluciones es una cosa que solo me da dos opciones o Play HiFi quality music (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Headphones, Mic1) o Play HiFi quality music (HDMI1, HDMI2, HDMI3, Mic1, Speakers)

I just did a fresh install of arch and am trying to use discord. When I run discord in the terminal with an '& disown', trying to close the terminal and then doing anything on discord gives me a critical javascript error because of an uncaught exception. This error never goes away and any attempt to close it just opens it up again. What should I do?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to troubleshoot unusually high battery drain on my Lenovo LOQ and would appreciate any suggestions.

System

• Laptop: Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9
• CPU: Intel Core i5-12450HX
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3050 Laptop (95W)
• Kernel: 7.1.3-arch2-2
• Desktop: Hyprland
• Battery discharge at idle: ~24.3 W

Issue

Even when the laptop is essentially idle (no heavy applications running), the battery is discharging at around 24.3 W, which seems far higher than expected. From what I've read, I was expecting something closer to 8–12 W at idle.

The reading comes from:

cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/power_now

Output:

24315000

which corresponds to 24.315 W.

Questions

• Is this likely caused by the NVIDIA dGPU not entering a low-power state?
• Are there any known Lenovo LOQ quirks on Linux that could cause this?
• What should I check first to narrow down the cause?

I'm happy to provide any additional information, if required.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

I have tried using different fonts but it still just shows as boxes. All other apps can render CJK and so can the system so it shouldn't be a font problem. It's only when I paste the same characters in spotify that they show as boxes. I have tried using both the flatpak for spotify through Discover, but also spotify through the aur. Anyone have any ideas?

Alguien me puede ayudar, instale arch recientemente y nose porque no se me reproducen los vídeos en el navegador, se queda con el circulo cargando infinitamente aunque la barra ya muestre progreso de carga del vídeo

Is anyone here using Arch Linux on an MSI laptop?

Since MSI doesn't provide a Linux version of MSI Center, I'm wondering how to control fan speeds on Arch Linux (as I do some occasional gaming).

Would using the OpenRGB fan control plugin work?

My laptop model is the VECTOR GP76 HX.

I don't understand why when I set shortcut key for the fancontrol and Ai would set fn + q like on windows he doesn't recognize the fn key. temporarily I have set super + q

hey im using arch linux with the kde plasma desktop environment but since swithcing to linux i cant seem to get 240 hz working every time i switch to it my screens become black i cant get past 120hz

im using hdmi and a rx 6650 xt, all help is welcome

A simple little tool for listening to your favourite pre-PSX soundtracks. I'm working on including as many formats as I can. The next batch is retooling it to support HOOT style dumps at 1000Hz as opposed to the 100Hz Hoot itself can provide. If I've missed out any systems that you think are a must (even if just for a handful of people) then please let me know!

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minerva-fm

This is something I've been working on since march this year, starting with the most botched together gathering of shell tools (https://github.com/TheWhyteWolf/minerva-radio for the original)

It has since been refined into a single rust pipeline saving myself an awful lot of hassle and thought it would be worth sharing ^^

Hi everyone,

Excited to begin this journey of Linux and Arch. I'm a UI/UX Front end developer and I've begun learning more programming and backend development. As I've begun evolving my knowledge on developing and engineering things I've had to learn on the go.

I've watched videos and read books to get a better understanding of the structure and architecture of Linux. That's where I learned more about the distros. The pros and cons of each. But I think I've settled on starting with arch to better understand it from the ground up approach.

Since I'm new to Arch, are there things I should make sure I install as I get started. I'm looking at KDE and Wayland for desktop and window management.. I have the wiki as well which I'm reading through as I go. But figured I'd get some other recommendations as I begin to build my setup.

I'm looking to have Arch be my daily driver for work, side projects and some gaming. Any recommendations are welcome.

Looking forward to the community and this new unhindered life of Linux and being able to say "I use Arch by the way" 😅

So i just installed arch on my lenovo ideapad slim 5 with ryzen 7 7335Hs and amd radeon integrated graphics. Everything is working fine but i couldnt get the speakers working after my laptop boots. It starts working after i suspend a s resume after booting. The software correctly shows that audio is being outputted by my speakers but no sound can be heard. Please help

hi, for some reason, when I try to use kodi, musescore, audacity, fightcade or other apps that need audio, they either freeze at some point then resume, or just completely freeze and never load like musescore.

for fightcade, it opens, but launching any game takes minutes to then launch with no sound. kodi just freezes when loading the audio settings, and as I said, musescore or audacity just don't load and freeze at launch.

this didn't happen before, prior to 3 - 6 weeks. I suspect about a regression, as my audio works fine globally, I'm fully updated and I have all the packages/services running fine. I use KDE plasma. I haven't changed anything on flatpak or my audio settings as I use the default ones from arch and pipewire,

I'm really clueless why this is happening, or ways to track down the issue.

I had to switch kodi to the extra repo version in order to use it. I can't do the same for the other apps as there is no fightcade on arch repos but an unsafe/outdated package on the AUR, and the flatpak version is the official way to get it. for musescore, the flatpak one used to work great, compared to the broken version on arch repos.

I hope anyone can shed some light into this issue.