Anyone tried out any Arch distros?

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Considering CachyOS or EndeavourOS but haven’t had a chance to try it out properly - has anyone else given it a go?

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Welcome

The main problem I had with arch was I couldn’t get gnucash to compile - almost definitely my incompetence.

Was happy to go to Alpine as everything in my house is now Alpine (including phone on postmarketOS!) and it avoids systemd which I find to e a battery killer if I am not careful. Not sure if there is some politics around archlinuxarm?

Also @mmozeiko is on arch.

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Try Manjaro which is arc based and works great the a standard RPI 4B or 5.

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Yes.. Archlinuxarm run ok + Endeavouros cosmic,sway are ones i tested . you need sort battery+ brightness out for self .. Hope this help

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I tried Manjaro Sway edition, but I couldn’t get logged in with the default credentials.

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Normally the default user/passwords are manjaro/manjaro for a standard user and root/manjaro for root access. These have always worked for me using the KDE-Plasma or Xfce editions. Try looking at the Manjaro user forum to see if they have any answers.

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Using Arch Linux ARM with xfce4 on labwc. Works like a charm.

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How did you make it to install Arch Linux ARM? I am having some trouble. Was able to create a bootable SD card and get into Arch Linux. But then I should execute this command at the end:

pacman -Syu --overwrite “/boot/*” linux-rpi

For this I need an internet connection. But since the Argon ONE Up does not have an ethernet connection and the WLAN does not get detected I can’t execute it. Do I seriously have to buy a Ethernet-USB-Adapter?

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Honestly, I didn’t take that route at all.

Instead I was booting full-fledged RaspiOS Desktop from my uSD and unpacked the rootfs bootstrap archive “ARMv8 AArch64 Multi-platform” into my mounted root directory. To make my life a bit easier I copied arch-chroot to my RaspiOS sd card and chrooted into my newly unpacked rootfs, installed linux-rpi-16k and linux-rpi-16k-headers using pacman inside the chroot and also installed all the packages needed to bring up my system properly… like dropbear, iwd and stuff…

Then I rebooted into my new Arch and I was happy… :slight_smile: