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Were you trying to install using the GUI software center? You probably didn't enable the AUR if so. I don't think arch is a good fit for you anyway tbh but if you go back, that's probably why.

Another option is ChimeraOS which is the steam deck OS for generic devices, which is also arch based, as you said you like to game but it is an immutable file system (in simple terms of what that means for you, pacman won't work, you'll have to use flatpaks). That may or may not work for your use-cases. It is designed for gaming, though.
No I was trying to do it through konsole "yay -s brave-bin " honestly i couldn't find a gui installer.

Fedora too is giving me shit with wifi drivers i'm starting to think some tranny dev has a vendetta against my chipset because of its name "rtl8814au"
 
No I was trying to do it through konsole "yay -s brave-bin " honestly i couldn't find a gui installer.

Fedora too is giving me shit with wifi drivers i'm starting to think some tranny dev has a vendetta against my chipset because of its name "rtl8814au"
I'm not really sure what the issue was then because that should work. I thought they shipped it with pamac or something now for a GUI. Anyway, that's not really important.

What's the issue you're having? Some quick google-fu tells me it's completely compatible with the 8112au drivers which are supposedly more performant anyway. Or are you using those?

RealTEK drivers can suck on Linux but it's not like it's not also true on Windows, albeit usually with some different devices, and macOS anyway.

The first time I used a WiFi card on Linux, I had to use really bad drivers *designed for Windows 98 and XP* via ndiswrapper and that really wasn't fun 20 years ago, so I've got a high tolerance for driver bullshit for wireless connectivity...
 
rtl8814au
My brother in Christ don't use Realtek USB wifi. They're just shit chipsets and there's a reason the drivers are not in the kernel (the reason being realtek just pumps and dumps those chips on an annual basis and they just copypaste the last year's driver with some minor changes for the new chip and calls it a day. Never patches or maintains them. A bunch of them sat in experimental for years until people were fed up and kicked them to the curb)

Do you a free m.2 a+e slot or a full fledged PCI slot by any chance?
 
What's the issue you're having? Some quick google-fu tells me it's completely compatible with the 8112au drivers which are supposedly more performant anyway. Or are you using those?
rtl8814au just not connecting saying wrong password 4-5 times then if it does connect signal is really low when it should not be, tried on 5 and 2.4 ghz both the same and the speed is very variable compared to my tethered phone running the same wifi network.
 
rtl8814au just not connecting saying wrong password 4-5 times then if it does connect signal is really low when it should not be, tried on 5 and 2.4 ghz both the same and the speed is very variable compared to my tethered phone running the same wifi network.
Did you try the drivers they say are for the 8112?

I have seen similar bad WiFi drivers before so I know what kind of performance you mean.
 
RealTEK drivers can suck on Linux
I think they've gotten better? My newest RTL chip worked out of the box.
e tranny dev has a vendetta against my chipset because of its name "rtl8814au"
You most likely have to DKMS it by using the AUR. You probably need https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl88xxau-aircrack-dkms-git. Yay should work with it.

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It's going to need a pre-patched PKGBUILD. Make a text file called PKGBUILD with this: https://pastebin.com/f2RBzuvj
You'll have to cd into a directory with that file, and run makepkg -sirc.
 
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I think they've gotten better? My newest RTL chip worked out of the box.

You most likely have to DKMS it by using the AUR. You probably need https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl88xxau-aircrack-dkms-git. Yay should work with it.
I have always found some weird little chips that have bad support over the years but maybe it is better now. They've always been low in my opinion for driver quality all round though

Certbot appears to be a foreign concept to them apparently, lmao even
I think they pay for one? But yeah. Its not the end of the world for most users no to have an expired cert for a few days a lot of the time but it shows the lack of care.

Pamac which I mentioned above which is a Manjaro tool originally has Ddosed the AUR inadvertently a few times also.
 
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You most likely have to DKMS it by using the AUR. You probably need https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl88xxau-aircrack-dkms-git. Yay should work with it.
that's what i have done it worked flawlessly for 6 days then just shit the bed for no discernible reason, the one that worked was last updated 7 months ago so i have no fucking clue what happened to make it go from functional to shit.
Did you try the drivers they say are for the 8112?
no just the 8814au ones there were 2 versions I tried off github aircrack and morrownd (or some shit) both to the same result.
 
t worked flawlessly for 6 days then just shit the bed for no discernible reason,
I think that comes down to the driver being shit because I recall having a similar card. RTL also has problems on Windows too. Its bad hardware in general, but comes in a lot of stuff because its cheap. If you can, replace it with a cheap Intel adapter. An AX210/AX200 for example.
 
I think that comes down to the driver being shit because I recall having a similar card. RTL also has problems on Windows too. Its bad hardware in general, but comes in a lot of stuff because its cheap. If you can, replace it with a cheap Intel adapter. An AX210/AX200 for example.
Tbh I think you'd struggle to get a modern WiFi chip that's NOT an Intel AX. It's a real workhorse.
 
If he has to go USB, get something based on mt76 driver. It's a wifi 5 chip so nothing special but at least it'll work ootb and it should cost pennies
 
I mean. These days Arch is easy Arch.

Set up wifi and run archinstall if you can't get a working system from there. You probably won't have much luck using your computer for anything beyond opening a web browser.
Last time I tried using archinstall, it didn't install the fucking SDDM properly.
 
null has said that he refuses to spend 4-5 figures on a new server, i wouldn't be surprised if he had the same attitude to the current server.
doing a quick ebay search for U.2 backplanes, they can range between 150 to 1000 AUD (about 200 to 1100 USD), with the ones for name brand manufactures often costing more.
chuck in some drives and it'd easily hit that 4-5 figure range.
he did say that the storage array is just sata, so it's not unreasonable to think he ran/is running the database storage on sata as well.
sometimes you make do with what you have.
 
Just log in from the console then launch the de from there, isn't that how you're supposed to use Arch?
After I installed a X11 environment on Debian Potato by recursively copying .debs via floppy disk to an old 486 I was perfectly happy with using startx/xinit. If it was good enough for me then it's good enough for everyone else.

I should have a play with that more at some point. Display managers- like screensavers- have always been a bit of a security hole with X, and I'm sure whatever happens with Wayland is even worse. My guess would be that if you're going to have a machine that you walk away from while it's logged into a GUI, your best bet would be something like running startx from a logged in console session inside screen or tmux, detaching that session from the console login and logging out, and then running a relatively low complexity screen locker like i3lock. One probably needs more paranoia (like catching any change to the display screen configuration in XRandR while you're logged out).
 
Just log in from the console then launch the de from there, isn't that how you're supposed to use Arch?
Well, maybe if it actually completed properly. Alas, that was not the case. I might give it another fuckaround with the craptop and see if they actually have it working properly now.
 
If he has to go USB, get something based on mt76 driver. It's a wifi 5 chip so nothing special but at least it'll work ootb and it should cost pennies
I've ordered an intel based PCI card, I have now spent more money on trying to use Linux than I have ever spent on windows.
 
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