For me, it’s gotta be Namibia. It’s a country in Southern Africa, and the only reason I’ve come to be aware of it was because I’ve made a very fortunate contact whilst talking on amateur radio. Two consecutive Decembers I happened upon the same gentleman on the 10 meter band, and he confirmed my QSOs (contacts) on the logbook!

I love Sober!

Won’t that just cause the boot loop again where it reboots because on my laptop Arch won’t start with it enabled?

Disabling TPM fixed my issue! Thanks!

That was it! Thank you!!

This worked :]

I was reading this on the Wiki and I couldn’t seem to get it to work. I did:

sudo systemctl enable ly@ttyX.service sudo systemctl disable getty@ttyX.service

But it didn’t work. Was I supposed to substitute the X for a number? Instead I just installed sddm and that got me back up and running.

This is the reply that got me back on my feet. I tried reinstalling and reenabling the ly display manager but it didn’t work for some reason. I installed sddm and now I’m back in business. Thank you!

I did sudo pacman -Q and it shows that I still have everything installed

I suppose all the “I use Arch” memes made me curious about the hubbub behind it. Fedora is totally competent, works right out of the box and gives no issues in my experience, I truly believe it should be recommended more when folks consider making the switch. Arch has been a learning experience for me, kinda figuring out what the system needs but doesn’t come with. “Oh, I have no firewall, I better install it. No bluetooth? Alright, I’ll add that too.” It’s so hands on and it forces the user to make decisions that the distro usually makes for the user on its own. This is a “for better and for worse” type of thing, but it forces the user to learn more about Linux itself than just handing them a totally functional machine right out of the box. It was intimidating as hell the first couple installs, but now I understand things I didn’t understand before as a result of it.

I switched because of a strong dislike for Microsoft and their spyware. I didn’t even bother dual booting, I ran baptism by fire right into Fedora and it was way smoother than I expected it to be. I enjoyed Fedora so much that I decided to try Arch. Very different experience, but now I’ve learned so much that I dumped Fedora and I use Arch for almost everything. I do keep a machine with Debian that way I feel like I’m getting the most well-rounded experience in case I ever need to help a friend with a Debian-based distro.

I didn’t realize KDE can look that beautiful <3

Exactly the information I needed, thank you for this :)

That makes more sense- kinda like nondestructive editing when working with audio/video. The snapshot is more or less a list of instructions to revert a system back to a previous state, not an actual copy of everything.

Thank you- this is exactly the direction I was needing

That makes more sense to me now. If I did want to backup system files and settings on another drive, what tool could I use?

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding how Timeshift works. If Timeshift isn’t a backup tool then what does it do? I thought that I could use my primary SSD and save snapshots to a secondary SSD using Timeshift. Everything is formatted to BTRFS by the way, it’s not like the primary drive is in ext4 or something like that.

Can I configure it to do what I want it to do or do I need some other sort of tool for that?

I hope they’re not on Edge, there are much better browsers for cybersecurity, afterall!

Glad you found some utility in my review!

It was in fact Digiornoed.