Hellmo_luciferrari @ Hellmo_Luciferrari @lemm.ee

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There should be protocols and practices in place to stop our data from being owned and sold. Hence why I take the steps I do to help anonymize myself to a small degree. Ditch Facebook, ditch apple, ditch google, ditch Microsoft, ditch any provider that wants to claim your data that tou can to minimize this sort of behavior.

I look forward to trying yabridge, thank you for the link!

With things like Signal, or Matrix, and other more secure alternatives to SMS/MMS I don't know one would choose to use something like Deku or Silence.

Heard good things, but after Manjaro, I decided I don't need it simplified and that I'll just learn!

What benefit would disabling it have for someone such as myself?

I tried Manjaro, but quickly switched back to Arch. I thought Manjaro would be a "Simplified Arch Experience with KDE" and man oh man, was I in for a "treat"

I do not recommend Manjaro over Arch, and I do not recommend Manjaro at all.

I would highly recommend against Manjaro... While Manjaro is Arch based, I would recommend against using AUR packages with Manjaro even though it is Arch based. Getting packages from AUR often times ends up breaking Manjaro. Dependencies conflicting when using AUR with Manjaro is one of the biggest reasons I would avoid it.

If you want something that "just works" don't use a rolling release type distro or you're going to have a bad time.

Ultimately, I removed the windows drive, it booted. But yay Novideo, I mean Nvidia drivers on arch is a pain.

Thank you for the tip. I didn't end up trying os-prober at all. I just ripped the windows drive out, and was able to get Arch installed and booted.

The issue I have now is completely different now, but I will likely revisit having Windows on another drive for the very few things that it would make easier for me.

For now it is time to wrestle with my 3090. Which I can't say I am exactly thrilled or shocked about.

I sorted out Arch not booting. By taking out the Windows drive, Arch boots just fine.

If I am not mistaken, having them on separate drives may have caused some issues. Someone else somewhere had suggested that is known to cause issues.

Not sure if it's windows and GRUB fighting even though they are on two separate hard drives.

I did not end up trying os-prober at all. I went the more drastic method of removing the drive because the end goal is to ditch windows anyways.

Though my issues with Arch are a completely different thing entirely. Mostly fighting with my GPU to cooperate.

well... it sure is a possibility

I have not, but I can look into how to do that. What would that do, if I may ask?

But Microsoft would cuck your Arch install if it were somehow installed onto onedrive D':

I turned it off in bios. Sorry for confusion due to order of information or wording.

Haven't made the full switch yet, all of my music production stuff is on windows.

That being said, I've been a fan of Reaper for quite some time. I use it Windows. I have installed it on my Arch install on my laptop, and that should work well enough for me, if I can get my VSTs and other plugins working.

That very well may help, I read a bit of what you sent. I will have to try when not at work. Thank you!

I am using UEFI, and GRUB for my bootloader. I did update my post with a bit more information now.

I was not able to select boot order in BIOS because it wasn't reporting properly, or my drives were "messed up" along the way.

I did not have the option for my Windows drive listed as a bootable option. It did however show a generic entry for my WD Black drive (which is what I installed Arch on) as a bootable entry, but it ended up booting to windows after forcing the machine down because Arch hung at initializing Ramdisk.

I had the afterthought to choose to install os-prober for grub within additional packages.

That was what I expected to happen, as I selected my WD Black nvme to install Arch on (using archinstall because I didn't feel like doing it manually) and upon reboot (and removing flash drive with Arch install medium on it) it did boot to Arch initially, but it froze at initializing ramdisk.

Upon booting back into my BIOS, it showed the WD drive as bootable, but I left it alone and it still booted to Windows.

Funny enough, I have installed Arch on countless machines, laptops, that desktop before. But somehow BIOS doesn't see any of them as bootable anymore.

I quite love Arch, and I am currently using my Arch laptop to post this.

I think my next thing to try will be just removing the drive I have windows installed on and trying to install once more.

The last time I ran Arch on this desktop, I had too many issues with Nvidia drivers and wayland support, so I sort of gave up on it for a bit. Now that I have a bit more knowledge under my belt I planned to dive in head first and ditch the spyware we all know as windows.

I haven't exactly decided on what distro for my server, but I have used forks/offshoots of debian, namely Raspbian or Raspberry Pi OS for my Pis. I understand the hurdles and such that come along with enterprise related products, as I am an IT professional by trade. I haven't worked with RHEL or Oracle's offerings yet.

I love Arch, but I too love linux. I never got into Gentoo, but I wanted to try it out just for the experience. I do get annoyed with having to compile everything from source with Arch on my laptop for exactly that reason; lap overheating. I also haven't used Slackware, Mandrak/Mandriva, Tggdrassil, or SuSE but I have at least heard of them. And I absolutely love the conversation, mind wandering is alright by me!

The tough pill to swallow with linux for me has been the functionality gaps between different offerings, but I love the choices I am given.

I appreciate your time in responding!