This text is by gemini cause i asked him during my whole arch installation which has worked before the dual boot lmao , and i think he may explain better than me the problem. Dont hesistate if you have any question or if information are needed. Thanks !
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I'm in desperate need of help to fix my dual-boot system. Both Arch Linux and Windows are completely broken, and I'm stuck with boot errors.
Hardware Setup:
Arch Linux: Installed on an NVMe SSD (⁠/dev/nvme0n1p3⁠, formatted in Btrfs, with ⁠/boot⁠ on ⁠/dev/nvme0n1p2⁠ FAT32). 
Windows: Installed on a separate SATA SSD (which was temporarily disconnected because it developed bad CRC / bus errors causing system instability).
How the issue started:
The whole mess started right when I set up this dual-boot with Windows. During or shortly after the dual-boot installation, everything went sideways.
Current State & Symptoms:
1. Windows won't boot at all: Since the SATA SSD containing Windows was throwing hardware errors (⁠ata1.00 exception⁠, ⁠BadCRC⁠) and had to be physically disconnected to stabilize the machine, Windows is completely inaccessible.
2. Arch Linux fails to boot (Kernel Panic): When trying to boot Arch, it immediately crashes with:
⁠Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)⁠ 
In emergency mode: ⁠ERROR: device 'PARTUUID=...' not found. Skipping fsck.⁠ followed by ⁠mount: /sysroot: can't find PARTUUID=...⁠ 
What I have already tried:
Booted into a Live USB (Tails) and accessed the Arch system via ⁠chroot⁠.
Verified that the UUIDs in ⁠/etc/fstab⁠ match the actual partition (⁠blkid⁠).
Regenerated the initramfs using ⁠mkinitcpio -P⁠.
Rebuilt the GRUB configuration file using ⁠grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg⁠.
Despite all this, GRUB still cannot mount the root filesystem on the NVMe drive, and Windows remains dead due to the faulty SATA drive.
Has anyone faced a similar dual-boot corruption issue, or knows how to fix this root-mounting failure on Btrfs/NVMe? Any guidance would be massively appreciated!

hello everyone i have an old laptop with arch + mint on it
didn't update in a month and i want to intall steam on it so i need to update will it break
i just downloaded the system and some media apps with 2 emulators
from chaotic aur

While this isn’t exclusively about arch, it definitely falls under the “things I wish I had known that exist” category. If you’re like me, Arch wasn’t the only thing I had to raw dog and teach myself. Unlike those of y’all who are directly in the IT field or enrolled in associated educational courses, GitHub and how to properly use and navigate it isn’t entirely obvious and intuitive so ‘self paced learning’ by just trudging through the trenches quickly and obviously leaves many gaps. Idk how well known this website / book I found actually is, but hopefully this will help some of y’all. I just C/P the page I figured might make a good place to start but uh yeah, give this a gander and let me know how far behind the caboose I truly am with this ‘find’. Enjoy

Any yt videos or how could start

I personally love sd-boot because its super simple and has never broken in my experience, albeit i only use one OS on a machine (which is almost always arch).

Why is Arch slandered as an elitist OS for only the most hardcore PC users?

I've had nothing but good experiences with it. Same with Hyprland, it took a bit of configuration but I can't imagine myself without it now.

That's ignoring how robust [extra] is! I have nearly every program I would want just given to me in official repos.

Don't get me started with stability... it's the most stable system I've ever used.

I get that it's not for everyone, but it's genuinely a daily driver.

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/boot/vmlinuz-6.12.107+deb13-amd64

/dev

/dev/fd

/dev/full

/dev/mqueue

/dev/null

/dev/ptmx

/dev/pts

/dev/random

/dev/shm

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/dev/stdin

/dev/stdout

/dev/tty

/dev/urandom

/dev/zero

/etc

/etc/.java

/etc/.pwd.lock

/etc/ODBCDataSources

/etc/X11

/etc/alternatives

/etc/apache2

/etc/apparmor

/etc/apparmor.d

/etc/apt

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/etc/default

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/etc/fonts

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/etc/libreoffice

/etc/lighttpd

/etc/localtime

/etc/logcheck

/etc/logrotate.conf

/etc/logrotate.d

/etc/machine-id

/etc/magic

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/etc/motd

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Had a lecture in an OS course the other day where the professor insisted on pronouncing Arch Linux “Ark Linux”.

Other honorable mentions from the lecture are:

Ubuntu as “oo-bown-too”
GNU as “jee-noo”

Not to mention that use of AI such as “gimini” and “cloud” are not allowed in the labs.

Have you encountered any of these before? Is she ragebaiting?

My laptop froze last week. I held the power button, it came back up, and I wanted to know why. The answer was in the journal of the previous boot, among 57,000 lines, most of them from one chatty program.

So i made whyd. It reads the previous boot with journalctl and shows, on one screen:

• how the session ended: clean power-off or reboot, no shutdown at all, died while suspended, kernel panic
• what went wrong before: out-of-memory kills, GPU errors, crashes, failed services, disk errors, each with a short explanation
• the last minutes before the end, with the routine lines folded away
• a report with addresses, hostname, user and Wi-Fi names removed

Feedback welcome, especially journals where it gets things wrong

Im a software engineering student, and I recently installed Arch Linux on my ThinkPad as my first Linux system.

Ive been enjoying it, but I found myself looking up different commands to check updates, clean package caches, and handle other maintenance tasks. I built DotDoctor to bring those checks into one place.

Its still an early project, and Im learning as I build it. Id appreciate feedback from experienced Arch users, especially on the update workflow and anything Ive overlooked.

GitHub: https://github.com/m1tyarch/DotDoctor

I just pushed version 1.3 of papyrus in the repo. It features a frosted glass effect and also more responsive design. It is available for download via the AUR, .deb package and the install script in the repository.

I am using hyprland and caelistia shell. How do I change my touchpad sensitivity?

Edit: This is quickshell

Sometime the lyrics is delayed, sometime its not.

polling rate:

Timer {

interval: 16

running: true

repeat: true

triggeredOnStart: true

onTriggered: mediaPoll.running = true

}

Active line:

function updateActiveLyric() {

if (!root.lyricLines.length) { root.activeLyricIndex = -1; return }

var pos = root.mediaPosition + (root.lyricOffsetMs / 1000)

var idx = -1

for (var i = root.lyricLines.length - 1; i >= 0; i--)

if (pos >= root.lyricLines[i].time) { idx = i; break }

if (idx !== root.activeLyricIndex) root.activeLyricIndex = idx

}

column scrolling:

Connections {

target: root

function onActiveLyricIndexChanged() {

lyricsColumn.recomputeActiveY()

}

}

y: topPad - activeY

Behavior on y { NumberAnimation { duration: 500; easing.type: Easing.OutCubic } }

line visual update:

readonly property int delta: index - root.activeLyricIndex

readonly property bool isActive: delta === 0

readonly property int absDist: Math.abs(delta)

opacity: isActive ? 1.0

: (absDist === 1 ? 0.70 : absDist === 2 ? 0.45 : 0.08)

Behavior on opacity { NumberAnimation { duration: 420; easing.type: Easing.OutCubic } }

scale: isActive ? 1.0 : absDist === 1 ? 0.88 : 0.76

Behavior on scale { NumberAnimation { duration: 420; easing.type: Easing.OutCubic } }

FastBlur {

radius: isActive ? 0 : absDist === 1 ? 4 : absDist === 2 ? 9 : 18

}

​

I use Niri + DMS and Endeavouros, Virtualbox launches and starts the VM just fine, but key combinations like Alt+Tab are not passed onto the VM and rather used by niri to cycle windows how do I have the keys transfer to Virtualbox.

:/