Well one of those options affected my ability to connect to my monitor. The issue was not resolved though, and I don’t feel like clearing my cmos again to see which setting exactly caused the monitor issue.

None of the settings have worked, but I did find 2 interesting settings hanging out in bios.

Would either changing the South Bridge speed or turning on the Compatibility Support Module (CSM) do anything?

I took a short look, but all the slots were on auto. My options were all pcie gen 1, 2, 3, or 4. My motherboard is an ASUS TUF Gaming X570 Plus Wifi, and I’m not really sure if the 2 M.2 slots eat my 2 PCIE x1 slots or not.

6.13.1-arch1-1 for x86_64

The firmware package is the upd72020x-fw (AUR only) package which is required by the mkinitcpio-firmware package. I have tried reinstalling both packages using both pacman and paru in case one gave extra errors.

Should be the most recent given that I run a recently updated Arch installation.

My Arch system stays on until a firmware package needs an update. Then i cry and scream bc it’s only been a month since the last one. Also I just updated a bunch of those, so my system has not been on long.

My issue is that I can never remember “a couple more commands” for the life of me. And I use Arch BTW, so the likelihood of me needing those is a bit higher than usual.

He can be an asshole, but I believe finding bugs is part of his job.

Would you rather have him find them and complain to a community who might know what they could be, or someone else who will just complain and buy a MacBook instead?

It’s definitely great for the mainstream. Think of Linus Sebastian who has somehow broken every OS except for SteamOS.

It’s not great for me who uses Arch Linux btw with the expectation that if the system doesn’t break on its own, then I will break it myself.

Some of the stuff I would do if my system was held together by more than literally just hopes and dreams.

Shit you might be right. I might just be extremely stupid.

Should be a new link to a video

If you’re running an Nvidia gpu, then Linux Mint is great for not needing to deal with setup issues.

If you’re going with an AMD gpu or no gpu at all, then i actually recommend Garuda Linux. It’s Arch-based so you may need to keep up with the updates more often. But you’ll get access to the AUR, a centralized* repository for just about every program you’ll need to install. I personally find it and pacman easier to use than apt.

BLAME!

Eat-Man

Trigun

The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run

My Monster Secret

Rosario x Vampire

Edit: Ignore the anime versions of the last two. They’re shit

What spec of laptop are you thinking of getting?

I kinda wanna try Gentoo just for the experience, but as someone who already uses Arch, I’m worried it will take up more of my time than my current setup already does.

I use Ardour. It looks pretty complicated to use at first glance, but everything you would need is there in one of the four modes in the top right corner.

I’ve tried Reaper for the plugins and the generally good reputation, but I couldn’t understand the empty interface whatsoever.

Np. Thanks for the reply! You have so far been the second source of knowledge I have seen on question 2. I’ll probably go the multiple amps route though as slowly building an amp farm is more budget friendly atm.

Just because not many people use a package, doesn’t mean it is irrelevant. For open source packages (or anything really), as soon as one additional person uses a package, that package becomes relevant. The person/people using it become its advertisers, and when enough people are seen using a product, especially a free one, a larger group will use either that package or something similar to cut their own programming costs.

This is simplified, but the point is that we need to stop this sort of thing at the root (the package itself) before it gets noticed by larger groups and companies who might actually get away with this BS. Always remember, we are tech/privacy nerds. We are the minority, and the average person doesn’t care until something hurts them directly.

My point is less that leaving Arch alone breaks things and more that updating after a really long time can break something. It also kinda defeats the point of using a rolling release distro. I can see how you thought i was spreading misinformation though. My bad for poor wording.