Setting up Arch Linux (Wayland & Sway)

[daring coyote]

And I'll have to cop the 1903 again from somewhere

That's why

21h2 exists

Ffs

If 21H1 is choppy

And 22h2 will be there soon

How tf 21H2 can be a silver lining?

💀

[daring coyote]

You mean 22h1

21h1 is EOL

Nah the 21H1 October update

So is 1903

But atleast it wasn't choppy

[daring coyote]

Don't use that one. It's the most buggy version of windoz 10

Also i wasn't updating it

So it was just finr

21h2 was known for deleting stuff

Idk what happened but it shows this now and won't exit to tty

And iirc 1903 also had several bugs

[daring coyote]

Yeah i read it but it was working fine

[modest echo]

run alacritty in it

[potent vortex]

That's just dmenu

It's like an app launcher that's actually quite simple to use

[daring coyote]

Now back on topic, I guess you have a modern UEFI install now with sway?

[daring coyote]

Yeah probably

Idk. I've been away, you tell me

It's really nice to be talking to yall at 5 AM again

Lol it's 3pm here

timezones

[potent vortex]

@daring coyote have you got foot installed now?

[daring coyote]

Lol can't confirm modern but yeah it's uefi

[modest echo]

they already have alacritty

[daring coyote]

I installed it before launching sway

Good. Now move on with derp assistance

[modest echo]

they're going to end up with two of every program lol

[daring coyote]

Lol

[modest echo]

Wait you're running it as root?

[potent vortex]

Yeah probably a good idea to change the thread name to "need help setting up a sway install"

[daring coyote]

Leaving. Hope you have everything working

[daring coyote]

This is more devastating than i thought it'd be...

[daring coyote]

These texts and the acc name and the pfp

[daring coyote]

What

I'm aggravated and lmfaooooo I'm rolling on the floor laughing

Pls rename the thread

Can you install sway for me?

[potent vortex]

He just means that he can't help you from this point on, and you'll need other people to help you

[daring coyote]

Nah

It's like Lumiere's texts just pop

And ik like tf and then I'm laughing my ass off

And no. We can't install sway for you. You have to DIY. We can just guide you.

Need help with Sway installation

[daring coyote]

Idk what are you talking about. And I have nothing else to do here from this point. I did my job.

[modest echo]

I will break into your house and install sway

[daring coyote]

Have fun with sway.

Lmfaooooo

[daring coyote]

Nah I'm not blaming or berating you

You're funny

Idk if you're serious everytime

But your texts make me laugh so hard

Okay now in alacritty

What should I do

And Mr. Derp lmfaooooo

Pls save me from installing two of everything

[potent vortex]

Are you root or your user?

[daring coyote]

Root

[modest echo]

If you don't have a user you'll need to create one

[daring coyote]

I have one

[potent vortex]

Try logging out using the terminal and logging back in as your user

[daring coyote]

Logged in from my own acc

I just used su - user

[potent vortex]

That's not logging in tho

[daring coyote]

Is that alright?

[potent vortex]

You're still running sway as root

You need to log out

[modest echo]

Exit out of sway, logout of root, and then login to your user

[daring coyote]

Thing is it won't exit out of sway

That's why

Ctrl alt f3 ain't working

[modest echo]

do win + shift + e

[daring coyote]

Done

So i will log in with my personal ACC

In tty

Is that good to go?

Done

[potent vortex]

Yep

[modest echo]

now before running sway, go into the .config folder, make a sway folder and run cp /etc/sway.conf sway/config

[potent vortex]

Good call

[daring coyote]

I wonder where the .config is

Folder

Coz it ain't here

[daring coyote]

I will have to create sway folder right?

[modest echo]

yes

[potent vortex]

cd ~/.config

[modest echo]

create it then as well

[potent vortex]

It's probably there, just not listed in ls

[daring coyote]

Gimme 5 mins imma be back

[daring coyote]

Tried ls -a as well

Nothing showed up

[potent vortex]

Alr

mkdir ~/.config

[modest echo]

Run mkdir -p .config/sway to create both of them

[daring coyote]

Gimme 5 mins ill be back

[daring coyote]

This will be in home directory right?

[daring coyote]

In home?

[modest echo]

yes

[daring coyote]

Will it create .config and sway inside home??

[potent vortex]

/home/[user], yeah

[daring coyote]

Yeah lol

Had to create it this way

[potent vortex]

Umm

[daring coyote]

It says cp: cannot stat '/etc/sway.conf': No such file or directory

[potent vortex]

cd .config first

[daring coyote]

Done

[potent vortex]

Then ls

See if there's a sway folder in there

[daring coyote]

Yeah

[potent vortex]

Alright

[modest echo]

sorry it's /etc/sway/config

[daring coyote]

So i should type in this?

cp /etc/sway/config sway/config

[potent vortex]

Yeah

[daring coyote]

Is it okay this way?

[potent vortex]

Should be

You can probably try to reboot now, and this time, don't sign in as root

[daring coyote]

Inside the home folder i have a sway folder

Should I delete it?

[potent vortex]

You can but you don't really have to

[daring coyote]

I think it's the one that i was supposed to create inside .config

[potent vortex]

Yeah but it won't really do any harm to keep it

Equally, you can delete it, but you might want to wait until you have a file manager to do that

[daring coyote]

So the tty login

That I've booted straight up into

I should log in with my personal ACC right?

[potent vortex]

Yep

[modest echo]

Yeah

[daring coyote]

Now what should I do

[potent vortex]

Then you should be good to go, you can install software with the terminal etc

[daring coyote]

Yeah

Imma modify it

First

But thanks guys

Should I close this thread?

[potent vortex]

Leave it open in case you need more help

[modest echo]

You currently have both wofi and dmenu installed, which do roughly the same thing

so you may want to get rid of one

[daring coyote]

Which one should I get rid of?

12 minutes into it and i idk like changed smthing i think

[modest echo]

what

[daring coyote]

Pulseaudio ain't working

Solved

[potent vortex]

Did you figure out which to remove?

[potent vortex]

I'd recommend pavucontrol for pulseaudio

But I hear that pipewire is better overall

[daring coyote]

Had to install pipewire

I'd recommend pipewire to anyone new

[daring coyote]

@potent vortex i was trying to install wine

However

It keeps running into errors everytime i makepkg -si it (lib32 packages not found)

Like the lib 32 keeps going on and on

[potent vortex]

Have you tried just using pacman?

[daring coyote]

And these are the AUR ones

[potent vortex]

Oh then have you tried using yay?

[daring coyote]

No

[potent vortex]

Have you installed yay?

[daring coyote]

Can you help me with installing wine using yay?

[daring coyote]

Supposedly no

[potent vortex]

I'd recommend it as an AUR helper

git clone aur.archlinux.org/packages/yay.git I think

One sec

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git

That one

Then you makepkg -sir that

Then you can just use yay as an alternative way to use pacman and a way to download AUR programs

[daring coyote]

It keeps saying you do not write permissions

[potent vortex]

What directory are you in?

Oh oh wait no

[daring coyote]

Opt

[potent vortex]

Ah

Hang on lemme find a guide

Actually, just do this in /home/user

You can always delete the folder later

[daring coyote]

It's downloading yay

Had to chown it into users

[potent vortex]

Ah that makes sense

[daring coyote]

I've created Programs folder in home directory

Basically for AUR packages

So i clone repositories into it

[potent vortex]

Oh fair enough

[daring coyote]

I wonder if after installation

Can I delete them?

[potent vortex]

you shouldn't need to use it once you've got yay

[potent vortex]

Yeah you don't need to keep those files really

At least with yay, because it can do updates for AUR packages

[daring coyote]

That's cool

Most of them tuts are about yaourt

Aurman too

Didn't look it but I will

[potent vortex]

Ah yeah, yay is a follow up to yaourt

"Yet Another Yoghurt" -> "yay"

(ig Yoghurt was probably a nickname for yaourt)

[daring coyote]

Creative indeed

[potent vortex]

yeah it's cool to have pacman and the AUR in the same command

[daring coyote]

Ahuh

So it's like yay -S <package-name>

??

[potent vortex]

Yeah

[daring coyote]

Btw yay just got installed

[potent vortex]

No need for sudo, it'll do that itself

[daring coyote]

That's a relief

[potent vortex]

So which wine pkg do you need?

[daring coyote]

Which?

Like wine, wine stable or wine staging?

[potent vortex]

Yeah which one were you trying to install?

[daring coyote]

I think it was wine stable

Also I'm on Wayland

So i think the PKG is different for Wayland?

[potent vortex]

I'm not sure

I don't think so

Well you can try yay -S wine-stable

[daring coyote]

Setting up Arch Linux (Wayland & Sway)

[potent vortex]

Yep it may take a little while to compile

[daring coyote]

PS just changed the thread name, so it's easy to follow up...

[potent vortex]

Yeah good call

[daring coyote]

What should I do with this?

[potent vortex]

Just press enter

It'll select None by default

It's just to tell you much more specific details of what's happening

[potent vortex]

Yep that'll be it

[daring coyote]

I hate this camera ffs

[potent vortex]

Yeah the rest should be good to just say yes to

[daring coyote]

No caps but i feel like installing arch was an overkill

[potent vortex]

Yeah it might've been, it's your first Linux yeah?

[daring coyote]

After Ubuntu

But it should be first

I've always been inconsistent towards linux

[potent vortex]

Ah fair

[daring coyote]

Like this is what I feel like i should have known before diving into this

[potent vortex]

Maybe yeah

[daring coyote]

Hardwares and necessary drivers

I'm aware of that stuff but damn it feels overwhelming

[potent vortex]

That's valid

[daring coyote]

How should I start over?

[potent vortex]

Do you want to start over?

[daring coyote]

Yeah

Like learning linux from scratch

[potent vortex]

You mean like Linux From Scratch? The guided tutorial? Or do you mean just starting Arch from scratch again?

[daring coyote]

Linux from scratch

[potent vortex]

Oh dear, I've no experience with that

[daring coyote]

Yeah more like a roadmap

I'm aware of basic commands

But yk

Like idk if it's bottom up or top down

The poking behaviour

Like if we're learning C language

And you mention header file like stdio.h

I gotta know what's header file and what's inside stdio.h

[potent vortex]

Yeah can't help you there

[daring coyote]

Lmaooo

If i may ask

How did you learn linux?

P.s. just asking no harm intended

[potent vortex]

Eh i started with Manjaro for about a week, and then some years later, I came back and switched to Mint, then 8 months after daily driving that,I went to arch

[daring coyote]

I think windows kind of makes you inert to explore and dive into depths of how system works and i find myself as a victim of that

Coz after installing arch i was like what's next?

And I'm like drawing blanks rn

[daring coyote]

Yo i think it has been stuck here for too long now

[potent vortex]

Odd

[modest echo]

Wine is in the official repos