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Bravo !

19 February 2018, 15:11:45

Hi,
after a try with Calculate Linux (promising but lacking LUKS install), I decided to give Artix another try.
I took the last iso (feb 2018).

Bravo !

It installed PERFECTLY with LUKS out of the box. Wow, what an improvment !
No trouble to install PAMAC.
Then installing Plasma worked smoothly.

(I just noticed a small quirk, by installing Beyond compare/AUR it had a dependancy on package qt4, and Artix comes with qt5 only, but impossible to find qt4 using search tool in pamac. I finally succeeded installing qt4 package by installing a non-AUR package that depends on it.).

So far this is close to what I need, I may decide to swith to Artix & get rid of systemd soon.

Thanks a lot guys for your hard work.

(obviously, on top of a "thank you", I will donate)

Bravo ;-)

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Reply #1 – 20 February 2018, 02:35:14

In pamac QT4 is obtained by ticking any of the top 4 QT4 packages i.e. QT4 Linguist, QT4 QdBusViewer, QT4 Designer and QT4 Assistant confusing I know but in pacman "sudo pacman -S qt4" works

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Reply #2 – 20 February 2018, 09:31:34

do you know or understand why it is not visible ?

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Reply #3 – 20 February 2018, 12:53:10

Quote from: Nadir – on 20 February 2018, 09:31:34

do you know or understand why it is not visible ?

Probably you don't have the "extra" repo enabled as they are in that one

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Reply #4 – 18 March 2018, 20:14:21

I did update (laptop not opened for 4 weeks)
And now : no more network, Network manager refuses to start, even on ethernet.

;-(

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Reply #5 – 18 March 2018, 21:08:55

Quote from: Nadir – on 18 March 2018, 20:14:21

I did update (laptop not opened for 4 weeks)
And now : no more network, Network manager refuses to start, even on ethernet.

;-(

Hello, you can find similar threads on the forum:
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,476.0.html

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Reply #6 – 18 March 2018, 22:01:17

Thanks !

Let's try downgrade

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Reply #7 – 19 March 2018, 06:51:21

downgrading networkmanager with the version in cache did the trick.

thanks.

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Reply #8 – 05 April 2018, 13:11:33

Hi guys, I just decided to move from Antergos, because the install on my spare laptop seems stable.
Artix + Plasma, it works!

btw, my Plasma settings copied from Antergos solved some issues (mainly: the annoying message "The screen locker is broken and unlocking is not possible anymore" - unlock-sessions problem)

But it also slowed it down a lot, especially Dolphin.
I'll have to find out someday.

I just made my small donation, very funny greeting message guys !

https://imgur.com/a/2WobC

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Reply #9 – 06 April 2018, 22:59:12

Quote from: Nadir – on 19 February 2018, 15:11:45

No trouble to install PAMAC.

(I just noticed a small quirk, by installing Beyond compare/AUR it had a dependancy on package qt4, and Artix comes with qt5 only, but impossible to find qt4 using search tool in pamac. I finally succeeded installing qt4 package by installing a non-AUR package that depends on it.).

One word of caution for pamac. If you're using any DKMS drivers, (virtualbox, nvidia, etc) you'll want to do those updates from pacman &/or yaourt. pamac doesn't seem to re-run dkms when the updates are done so you'll either have to run it after pamac is finished or upon reboot. In the case of Nvidia getting updated, you'll definitely not want to have to deal with that reboot if the driver isn't recompiled before the reboot.

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Reply #10 – 07 April 2018, 02:29:16

Sure about that? I use no nvidia, it is a waste of time with Linux. But Virtualbox.
I'll double check that.

Thanks

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Reply #11 – 07 April 2018, 02:41:01

In regards to pamac, from what I was told in another thread discussing Nvidia issues, that was what was expressed. If I do updates with pamac, dkms is not run and on the reboot I have a console login flashing as fast as it can to deal with. If I update with pacman instead I don't have the same issue so I consider it accurate information that was given to me.

In regards to Nvidia, Nvidia performance over Intel is working well for me on one machine as well as ATI vs Intel on another so I guess it's whatever you're doing on your Linux machine dictates if it's worth it or not. I do a lot of graphic intensive operations and the Intel card can't handle it so I guess that's why it works out better for me.

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Reply #12 – 07 April 2018, 03:06:44

Sure.
Except Intel Iris, which is quite good (used in mac) even on a 4K display. but I am a developer so it is enough/perfect for me. And I use external displays everyday, where nvidia sucks.

btw, it is really simpler doing pacman -Syyuu or -Suy in the command line: you have a good progress report.
So in fact I will never have the problem.

Thanks

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Reply #13 – 07 April 2018, 03:43:43

Not sure what you mean by it sucking on external monitors either but ok

To each his own. I'm running Artix on a Dell Precision 7510 with 3 external monitors and the laptop display and get great performance on all 4 screens using Nvidia.

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Reply #14 – 07 April 2018, 12:07:28

I mean, you may need to reboot to plug them, the nouveau/bumblebee nightmare hardly works out of the box.
it is not plug and play as it should be.