I’m probably jumping to conclusions, but Nvidia?
Yes it is
I explicitly bought an AMD CPU and GPU and did not have any trouble with both of them ever since
If I knew about all this pain many years ago when I bought my NVIDIA card, I would have done the same…
Nvidia Arch user here, are you just forgetting to rebuild your kernel modules after a kernel or nvidia driver update?
You can just add a pacman hook that triggers
mkinitcpio -Pafter the linux or nvidia packages are updated. I’ve never had a no-GUI situation from a stray update… maybe one or two that were my own doing when trying to set up UKI’s though.The Arch Linux team releases Nvidia updates at the same time as kernel upgrades which should trigger a initramfs rebuild via mkinitcpio anyway
unless you do a partial upgrade anyway (never do that)
Why not just use DKMS?
I think dkms is for inserting kernel modules, but I’m dumb and what’s the difference between both these approaches?
The Dynamic Kernel Module System automatically builds your modules for your updated kernel.
Just learn how to do everything in the TTY. GUIs are bloat
I already did, but wobbly windows is my love!
Somebody needs to make a wobbly terminal
Magnet on the side of my CRT 😍😍
Just get a CRT with speakers instead, and then that’s basically the same thing, with the bonus that it wiggles and your eardrums split open when you play anything at a volume higher than 10
Don’t bother with the tty. If experienced chess players can play entire games in their heads, why can’t you just do the same to use a computer? Just type away and use your superior power usering skills to visualize the output in your head.
Thanks, now I’m running Quake on my brain.
But can it run Crysis with ray tracing?
When the rolling release is a rolling release: D:
When bleeding edge bleeds: ¶:
Fedora: uhm excuse me wtf?
Me looking from openSUSE Tumbleweed:
Can I talk to you about our Lord and Savior Tumbleweed?
Just got a new laptop and put an arch flavor on it, keep thinking of going back to Tumbleweed. I’ve kept on Arch derivatives cause of the AUR, but I haven’t actually touched the AUR in a while, and a couple of the things I used the AUR for are now being published as flatpaks by the creators because of the Steam Deck.
Give it a shot, you can always go back
Last time I tried it, the more custom stuff I put on it(custom color scheme, window decorations etc.) the more it fell apart
Admittedly, I haven’t done too much of that, but it might still be more stable than needing to reinstall your OS every 2-3 weeks?
I’ve done exactly too much of this stuff, and now I can’t stop. Dont let r/unixporn consume you!
Funny because just like those door to door bible sales, Tumbleweed promises magic and salvation, but completely crumbles under any stress or expansion
Not my experience at all. It’s the one distro that stopped my distro hopping.
Besides, something goes fucky or (more likely in my case) I fuck something up, I can just roll back the changes with a single command and reboot. It’s awesome. I’ve also used to just test things out, removed all KDE stuff, installed GNOME, tested it out for a while and then did a snapper rollback. The system was just like I hadn’t changed anything. It’s really cool, more distros need this feature.
Wild, every time I’ve tried using it on both metal and as a VM it has self destructed rather quickly. The last few times, just doing an update after the initial install broke the system for various reasons… but everyone has different hardware and software mixes I suppose
Why are you using arch Linux if not to debug your system though?
There’s a difference between “can” and “want.” For example, OP might have been planning to watch his home vids with your mom, but couldn’t due to a rolling update.
What did you edited ? Arch user here, never had this kind of issue. Also if you managed to install Arch, you should be able to fix it(maybe you switched from terminals, try ctrl+alt+1-9)
You were just lucky. For some of us ut was just about having the wrong hardware at the wrong time.
Not complaining, I knew the risks going in and still love my distro, but arch updates totally can brick a PC with no PEBCAK involved. It does happen. :3
Arch dosn’t break by itself, i’ve used bunch of Arch installations and every time it broke it was because of bad manipulation, not pacman -syu
Arch DEFINITELY breaks itself. See the whole “arch update broke grub” dilemma
Have you tried it or are you just spreading misinformation ?
A grub breaking thingy happened to me too.
I was saved by having multiboot, with every OS having their own GRUB version installed. (just selected one using the motherboard’s interface)The problem occurred when, after
pacman -Syu, I read notes in the output, one of which hinted I would want to update GRUB and went - “Sure, I’ll try the new GRUB update” and ran GRUB update.When it didn’t startup after a restart, I just used the debian’s GRUB to login to the OS in question, downgraded GRUB, reinstalled GRUB and then ran
pacman -Syuagain.I feel like mine wasn’t the problem instance that goes on around the web, mostly because:
- None of the mentioned fixes worked in my case.
- I feel like people won’t go out of their way to update GRUB most of the time.
I was among one of the grub fiasco victims. Thank goodness they rolled it back pretty fast and I knew how to chroot.
I have not experienced it but half of the arch users on reddit seem to have experienced it. Also it’s not a continuous problem but rather a problem with a certain arch and grub version. However the fact it happened once (to many people) means it can happen a second time
Arch breaking grub has happened to me twice. Second time I couldn’t even recover the install.
You learn a lot of good practices by using arch, eg a separate home partitjon, git repositories for your config files, maintaining a clean package tree etc. Installing Arch is also really useful for noobs like me to learn some Linux basics.
I use Fedora, btw.
Sounds like a skill issue. Some people just don’t know how to use Arch.
Signed,
Someone who has spent more days reinstalling Arch than using it.
