r/archlinux • • 4h ago

QUESTION Secure boot and Arch?

5 Upvotes

The Arch installation guide mentions disabling Secure Boot. I recently learnt that Secure Boot can work with Arch.

My questions are: does this make sense?

Should I keep it enabled after all (is it risky if not)?

Is there a risk that, following an update, Secure Boot will reject my kernel or boot loader?

Did you enable SB?


r/archlinux • • 23h ago

QUESTION How difficult is it to use Arch for my younger brother if I do all the upkeeping?

22 Upvotes

I have switched back and forth from linux distros and windows for quite some time by now and I think that I would like to switch to Arch. The main reason is that I want to learn more about how Linux works, etc. I usually let my younger brother play on my PC and it makes me wonder whether he could use it.


r/archlinux • • 18h ago

SUPPORT Problem with CJK characters

0 Upvotes

I am currently viewing a wiktionary page about a Hanzi character, but when I looked to the "Derived Characters" section, I was met with a bunch of boxes. The problem is, I have installed a CJK font before (Noto Sans) and when I hovered above those characters(they link totheir own page), some of the characters rendered properly.


r/archlinux • • 9h ago

SUPPORT Archinstall Red text

0 Upvotes

https://imgur.com/a/HHCPz6G Link to Pictures

Searched alot but I cant seem to find the problem can anyone help?


r/archlinux • • 2h ago

SUPPORT Wanted to add a comment on an AUR package about a missing dependency. I have no account and registration is closed.

10 Upvotes

Hello. I just installed the tagstudio AUR package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tagstudio and found that it would not run (I was having the same issue that is already noted by Iiridayn on the comment section of this package) and I wanted to leave a comment because I figured out which package solves this issue.

Specifically, installing qt6-webengine solved the issue and allowed the program to start. I wanted to comment this so that the maintainer can add it to the list, but I don't have an account and I can't create one, so I'm not sure how to let them know. I was frankly hoping someone here would be able to make the comment on my behalf so that this can be fixed.