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Struggling to keep my Linux world ('world' repo pun not intended) turning, I just commented out the 'universe' entries in /etc/pacman.conf as per tyhe home page guidance. Is there anything else to do?

Background:
A since departed former colleague of mine had a dozen antique cars in his collection and he would drive one or the other to work frequently because they all needed to 'be oiled' now and then. When I asked him how he decided which one each time he said "I go out with a cluster of keys, the one that's first to start is it".  I use 6 to 7 distros because I want to be sure that when I sit down for a guitar session I will have at least one that has all its sound/music shit together. THIS, with Linux, is no small feat. For assorted reasons I'm now down to a single one: devuan, all the others are teethering on demise so I'm desperate to fix them, Artix included.

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Reply #1 –
It's a bad analogy. imho

What's good for cars might not be the best for operating systems.
Look at it this way. You've got "6 to 7 distros" (if your unsure of the number it could be sign it's too many).
You want to keep them ticking over so you fire each from time to time. Do a system update. Maybe browse a little then shut it down.
But without using it to the fullest you may miss little issues which the update introduced. And maybe more the next time. And so on.
And the same with the others.
Then one day the distro you use the most black screens on you. so you start using the others in earnest.
But not of them are working right. Everyone of them has some niggling issues. "How can this be? " you wonder. "I've been keeping them all updated."

If your Artix install is "teetering on demise" I'm guessing it will take more than commenting out universe to fix it ?
What is actually wrong with it ?

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Reply #2 –
Quote from: gripped – on
It's a bad analogy. imho

What's good for cars might not be the best for operating systems.
Look at it this way. You've got "6 to 7 distros" (if your unsure of the number it could be sign it's too many).

I had 7 and booted a different one every day of the week. Then hoobuntu-studio's snapper  rejected my policy of links in home so I rejected hoobuntoo-studio.  Down to 6.  AvLinux fell apart and became unbootable too so I took another look at it and because it's still using systemd it;s also on death-row.   Down to 5, looking at PcLinux as a possible replacement for AvLinux.  And so on... 

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You want to keep them ticking over so you fire each from time to time. Do a system update. Maybe browse a little then shut it down.
But without using it to the fullest you may miss little issues which the update introduced. And maybe more the next time. And so on.
And the same with the others.
Then one day the distro you use the most black screens on you. so you start using the others in earnest.
But not of them are working right. Everyone of them has some niggling issues. "How can this be? " you wonder. "I've been keeping them all updated."

If your Artix install is "teetering on demise" I'm guessing it will take more than commenting out universe to fix it ?
What is actually wrong with it ?

It started with an upgrade (including warnings about grub) that ended with an unbootable system, then came kernel 6.7 leading to another fiasco because of my nvidia card. That card has been dumped and I'm now rebuilding everything with a second-hand AMD 590 or something similar that I just bought. In the middle of all this Artix had a web site meltdown ending with repo changes, I just did some of that. Many of my must-have apps are missing with just unusable icons on the panel, examples being qjackctl, qsynth, audacity, yoshimi, guitatrix.... etc.  Trying to get them back aboard I get responses like

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# pacman -F qjackctl
[no return]

# pacman -S qsynth
error: target not found: qsynth

# pacman -S rosegarden
error: target not found: rosegarden



In /etc/pacman.conf

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[system]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[world]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[galaxy]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[lib32]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Tonite was another 2 hours down for maintenance instead of a guitar session for which I'm now too tired!

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Reply #3 –
When I wrote the above I had just completed a large update including Plasma6, had my hopes up actually. Konsole became miniaturized and closable only so I logged out in hopes of a reset of sorts. Logging back in I got a faceful of "This desktop is incompatible with Plasma 6" or some other such crap. I mean come on, this has GOT to be a joke!

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Reply #5 –
Quote from: badsector – on
I had 7 and booted a different one every day of the week.
Right I remember now.
You posted this once before and at the time I thought "That's a weird thing to do but each to their own and all that".
I suspect that by doing so you hamper your chances of learning any of them well.
From the sounds of it it may be that your best option is just to start again with fresh slate?

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Reply #6 –
If you want to use your system as guitar and sound studio you may want to setup second OS to your requirements and freeze its condition. No upgrades, no updates and maybe even no internet. Then you'll have stable second system for your guitar sessions, and first system for rolling age experiments, and there'll be only 2 instead of 7.

I am also playing guitar and using my Artix as sound studio but I don't use any DE so I don't have any KDE-related problems.

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Reply #7 –
I do use XFCE on half the distros and KDE on the other half, it so happens that when I first installed Artix the next system was due for KDE so I DL'd the qt-image.  The last thing I want is to put all eggs in one basket but since Linux IS a sound bitch maybe otherwise frozen but sound-usable tweaks are the answer. Other than this the Splashma-6 swing seems like a repeat of the 5, you just have to redo your desktop A-Z and live with crappy graphics for a few months. After posting my last I went and got the kde6 desktop half done already. Artix STAYS in the stable for sure, it being one of only 3 I have that are free of systemd (Slackware, Devuan, Artix). My original idea was to mix inits like DE's but I'm having sound/music and other issues with the Suse distros as well so I may soon be looking to replace THEM with systemd-free ones. Other than sound and virtualbox being unable to do USB passthrough for my GX-100 effects-board to w10 I have few serious problems with multi-OSes (ok, the 'zillas are another headache).

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Reply #8 –
Quote from: Ambie – on
If you want to use your system as guitar and sound studio you may want to setup second OS to your requirements and freeze its condition. No upgrades, no updates and maybe even no internet. Then you'll have stable second system for your guitar sessions, and first system for rolling age experiments, and there'll be only 2 instead of 7.

I am also playing guitar and using my Artix as sound studio but I don't use any DE so I don't have any KDE-related problems.

I need all of about a dozen apps to run flawlessly for my sessions because I also make my own sheet music, backing tracks and all that.
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