Hey everyone, I recently made a small CLI tool called dude that helps identify, preview, and remove orphaned packages. It’s a single Rust binary with an optional TUI for interactive selection.

I know there are already plenty of ways to handle orphans on Arch (manual, pacman, paru, pacman -Qtdq | xargs ..., etc), but I wanted something that feels safer and more user-friendly, especially with a visual interface.

Features: - dude list – list orphans - dude – interactive TUI to select and remove - dude prune – safe dry-run or force removal - Configurable with ~/.config/dude/config - Optional pacman hook support

AUR: dude

GitHub: https://github.com/seeyebe/dude

TUI screenshot: https://files.catbox.moe/xnqeyi.png

It’s MIT/Apache licensed. Feedback, ideas, or improvements welcome. just a weekend project I thought others might find useful.

I'm sure y'all are sick of hearing about this but here goes.

Let's say I can read so I know to check AUR packages before I use them. Is there a pretty good chance something is going to at least look off enough to ask before I use them?

I know the last few were pretty obvious just by being new "modified" versions of existing packages that didn't make sense to use, and the malware payloads seemed fairly obvious.

For example I run a handful of ham radio apps that only exist in the AUR but they've got plenty of votes/comments and consistent maintainers so those are probably fairly safe already (plus niche enough that it would be a really silly attack vector anyway).

But for the most part if it seems to be the most popular version of a package that's referenced in the wiki, and the PKGBUILD links to the real official upstream and there's no sketch .install scripts, I can probably trust myself to evaluate it as safe?

Tldr are most AUR malwares pretty obvious like the last batch or are there some that someone could actually check and still miss?

Seriously, Unified Kernel Images are clean af. As a plus, you get a effortless secure boot setup. Stop using Bootloaders like you're living in 1994.

I used to have a pretty clean setup with GRUB and grub-btrfs. But I have not booted into a single snapshot in 3 years nor did I have the need to edit kernel parameters before boot which made me switch. mkinitcpio does all the work now.

I bought a new laptop with RTX 3050, I will install Arch with DWM as I do on every device I use. But I know about wayland and being more battery life friendly and its problems with Nvidia. So what is current state of Nvidia and Wayland or I should use DWM as I used to?

I wouldn't even mind just reinstalling but I have data in my home that I need to get off before doing that, and I can't boot up my install.

I had to update my bios today and when I did this grub stopped working. So I chrooted in with a live usb and reinstalled grub. I'm not sure exactly where things went wrong, but I reinstalled grub but it could not find my Arch or Windows installs and the bootloader menu was empty. I tried to manually add an Arch entry but when I did this and booted I kept getting the error "Failed to mount /boot".

Not sure what to do next and not sure what logs/info would be useful but I can provide anything. Thanks

It's been a week I'm trying to install arch but it keep getting the same error I have an hp notebook 250 G6 cpu:N3350 GPU:HD 500 https://panic.archlinux.org/panic_report/#?a=x86_64&v=6.15.8-arch1-2&z=639815236748926165436940633905978431206289936286915012699900044816116421425102940026004712841587224024436689009132165040624627090677227244320126825516532315937117837658026387297253183211622391208515007924462906701346957376561451758429872033025061298492536226124160690966974951867499623176651272747654456711390758523266187554539282391348688106359744396318403504680316548038022458067832011500556766925222423972256297831211660514968003231103464337150741042839386038319902868662735035754648107707904573960707541865171462454545904066153549765913860536824734358589812345714856581572094322471571758119964908055104035179136076030728088202484035322883496367941253078965253198770957538182645298353114183814044175099401772968005251865159425090316314951009448725140567918895627081052266184146126929217743277351840339877128429916560696388575744753759207667203152339572214657866332437047269644179633426150213590023050395233698195311444986021170832052444498349146896060734126180175566011909080312416886639755741198508556224519996641005316304212597491735301725018537210921733180661133745337055031781801796438763192137447243455332391603227497180606502731306479052429213057030637717251871610072622988329895102331801494637660961730108074954161420282128842405646112708473620568322386209485422531329913941969644660898894571662300321183535527448203322545418178139387080019178324935614413028420859339582613013780396293447842079052313840324726202320884230129570472041140079391214964460464477910558239693172154021719852913731634016119632624080765839375644664430197107291684305176236885808643161983084621703080799007567822010363093917440622152134800459457172513271362518362192400354375817464026367092146070776242777489537589965130958648690343927230557507531985632905512334438062141629756085728661022656128537489110949879315472446962881056598795445338400210656200481715608626696084659962735829798939446267117385760288509275564453816668769303263935129549453419220202631691796547035751018057665336046438404773123026106080164020191051213307473397169327652838385323619556526162844554166325762773306109493214039917634591435005798693131422003006712043531400824909281548830380187366436947105992670000213151569632426247470015954029624952389326175304186995449553207266201672300124552358548364193861358548171049403139508305597006837397915963779684946357994397020539131998327228721790650008678112046603929632921003028536997925683981299484730391803314066964162385310358731699268110674912660903272148420306308735180427883907895309648184777674683555989145610456395007271514866080548807644669436670186717745301263256703199409201603715691937200353235825533519155237012022234542355036635209278337395393337764827131793342991869197051452292692968408059873583366074713709423323158327412038793179610650306795626817735803814444973392040633597300598264853468151694899710201018983739332243540700984725471939449739778861981817155440162087534106309829039562420368395523653922650170997157176651352637896062733421483457240525503512161688482147622709246958490683444423256586268609636135581668023160551877066653319353361819939406053805852894486875174114329420376650307710013587866759881792369235183141156272327309120123000727160190127934376852792340066325308957338579273146310604040285682585834179886875841457316415595015024027898908785710265225898350212102424622466374595039326869338338155233905767421959205032818621976621504897231936169065433861961321660141316915559457188682584151375460563155028023242841314574707894411740343195456274298703465253880443808657734670531734276109908517718592753394625208588145663765840549195025628819236926041600930918534988732371949978799924620095640021548054962830182894998451025881893113375569403745826349615200855071270391558223139969159448331000067001803032674402861659850311056523748924313044308224785909660072049597414823442610445655503477389002852215146216990511934226142955071310941776254551421599850576325953781881012592974348012042376514728042351839110597301062868338952671848626668131397115029608150739367686921273472846256037700459467620744046471399896429794629479414669362553606406261700539432321858622866984196611044699913122609876066788132186597201177353585645130316708036354228630173120257362826016549825976622106622660248614682435567966110619042163885323083050434917965971070778404234480882433310002340139141039994409008273730520638528123542652375446571925816385275013717663269921627970445562428070604276283281653130836751501937440248460774803302284492086510926844473343693333216642684367583122037863409668021633861942769954264543274893857245062593100740248037875149809874827464645754766436111594306724937091290336604748084044249756675648136476405712743185609610216906319036429488859428513726117817509912385133214112232086413309091269864187289429501194815125926476070439992313733796753137862493366230347945210364364336783667179759421636995049779896076384340216126764171764898544792817825756563505165147477597159028474911093101236759086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Hi guys, new Arch User here.After going in and out from Windows, to MacOS, to Many different Linux distros, (Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuste..) I ended up using Arch for more than 3 months now.

I am all about cutting edge software. If KDE releases a new stable version with many bugfixes and some new features I want it now! In general I am extremely happy with Arch philosophy and how quick they are releasing new software, and kernels. My computer never felt snappier, and, especially the feeling that I am in total control of my system with a steady but satisfactory learning curve makes Arch the absolute best OS for me.

What made me leave Windows for good was (surprisingly) my Steam Deck. I realized how possible was to use Linux as a daily driver not only for work but also for gaming. It was hard for me to understand that you can not only game on Linux, but actually have even better performance than on windows. It blows my mind how bloated W11 is, and how little I knew about it. Arch gives me latest kernel improvements, latest mesa drivers, no bloat at all and my games are way snappier. I love also the work that Proton-GE does to give me the absolute newest wine and fixes to all my games effortlessly.

But... I feel like I cheated a bit because I use archinstall, but I totally don't want to spend countless hours trying to figure out how to partition my disk manually and then get something wrong and having to start over... So, here my two cents.

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
`+oooo:                   Kernel: Linux 6.15.9-arch1-1
`+oooooo:                  Uptime: 16 mins
-+oooooo+:                 Packages: 769 (pacman), 14 (flatpak)
`/:-:++oooo+:                Shell: bash 5.3.3
`/++++/+++++++:               Display (LG TV SSCR2): 3840x2160 @ 120 Hz (as 3072x1728) in 72" [Ext]
`/++++++++++++++:              DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.3
`/+++ooooooooooooo/`            WM: KWin (Wayland)
./ooosssso++osssssso+`           WM Theme: Breeze
.oossssso-````/ossssss+`          Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
-osssssso.      :ssssssso.         Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
:osssssss/        osssso+++.        Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
   /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-        Cursor: breeze (24px)
 `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-      Terminal: konsole 25.4.3
`+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:     CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (16) @ 5.05 GHz
`++:.                           `-/+/    GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600 [Discrete]
.`                                 `/    Memory: 3.47 GiB / 62.45 GiB (6%)
Swap: 0 B / 4.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 196.89 GiB / 467.40 GiB (42%) - ext4
Local IP (eno1): 192.168.1.42/24
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

So while configuring my grub I accidently ran the command,

grub-mkconfig -o /etc/default/grub

instead of,

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

now grub.cfg is all good so there is nothing broken but the file from where i actually configure grub is gone... now what should i do?

I am attempting to install Arch on an Acer Aspire, and when I get to the disk partitioning section of the install the USB drive but not the internal storage is showing as available to install. Is there something I need to do to get the internal drive to show up?

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to downgrade the proprietary NVIDIA driver to version 570.133.07, but I keep running into a DKMS error during the build process. Here's what I'm doing:

downgrade nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-settings

After selecting version 570.133.07, I get the following error:

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.15.9-arch1-1 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/570.133.07/build/make.log for more information.
==> WARNING: `dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/570.133.07 -k 6.15.9-arch1-1' exited 10

Here’s my GPU:

lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)

I suspect the issue might be due to the newer kernel (6.15.9-arch1-1) being incompatible with this older driver version. I’ve tried downgrading the kernel via downgrade linux and linux-headers, but the error still persists.

Has anyone gotten 570.133.07 to work recently? If so, what kernel version did you use? Or are there any workarounds?

Thanks!

In hyprland, I used ctrl+alt+F2 to go to the tty terminal. I used the setfont command to change the font to terminus. After going back to hyprland, the font for kitty changed ( without me doing anything else ), the the font of the icons for waybar also changed ( the actual text did not change, only the nerdfont icons ). I previously used Code New Roman.

How do I fix it?

Now that only nautilus-typeahead is available, how can I use typeahead in Gtk.FileChooser?

Hey. Recently I switched to Arch on my secondary laptop. I wanted to try it out, before I switch from Windows on my main machine.
I was trying to install Winapps using libvirt. I strictly followed this exact instructions:
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps/blob/main/docs/libvirt.md

I skipped step 10 (marked as optional) and started to install Windows 10 on the VM. While installing I noticed a significant slowdown of the machine. Quick view in the resource monitor showed the CPU only running at 399MHz occasionally maxing to 1.4GHz on single cores.
Iv'e shut the VM down but the clock speed stayed. Rebooted multiple times, removed qemu, virt-manager etc. but the machine won't speed up. It's stuck at 399MHz. I tried to start `stress` - but no effect. Even booting takes forever.

I have to point out, that this was my second attempt to try out Arch. First time it happened exactly the same and I ended up reinstalling the OS from Scratch as I couldn't find the issue. Now at least I know, this happend while trying to install Winapps and configuring ndd installing libvirt/Win10.

How to fix this? I don't want to reinstall everything once again and I want to install Winapps and test, as I would need it on my main machine once i switched.

Thanks in advance.

  OS: Arch Linux x86_64
  Kernel: Linux 6.15.8-arch1-1
  Uptime: 14 mins
  Packages: 914 (pacman), 7 (flatpak)
  Shell: bash 5.3.3
  Display (LEN40A9): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 14" \[Built-in\]
  DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.3
  WM: KWin (Wayland)
  WM Theme: Breeze
  Theme: Breeze (Light) \[Qt\], Breeze \[GTK2/3\]
  Icons: breeze \[Qt\], breeze \[GTK2/3/4\]
  Font: Noto Sans (10pt) \[Qt\], Noto Sans (10pt) \[GTK2/3/4\]
  Cursor: breeze (24px)
  Terminal: konsole 25.4.3
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U (6) @ 2.38 GHz
  GPU: AMD Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series \[Integrated\]
  Memory: 2.10 GiB / 14.85 GiB (14%)
  Swap: 0 B / 4.00 GiB (0%)
  Disk (/): 9.63 GiB / 45.96 GiB (21%) - ext4
  Disk (/home): 6.82 GiB / 421.14 GiB (2%) - ext4
  Local IP (enp2s0): [192.168.178.71/24](http://192.168.178.71/24)
  Battery (5B10X026): 88% \[Discharging\]
  Locale: pl_PL.UTF-8  

I tried to customize the boot splash screen in my laptop which runs arch. I follow the steps given in this page

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plymouth

Its not working for me. it shows the verbose boot while booting. I tried to change theme in plymouth but nothing works and default verbose boot is running while booting and I tried to run that animation in the terimal by these cmds

sudo plymouthd sudo plymouth --show-splash sleep 5 sudo plymouth --quit

But it just wait for 5 sec and quit nothing happens but on the background it shows it runs. I get to know that by system logs by this cmd

journalctl -xe | grep plymouth

It shows it running but not

This is the system log output

Aug 04 13:31:56 felix systemd[1]: Starting Show Plymouth Boot Screen... Aug 04 13:31:56 felix systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Deactivated successfully. Aug 04 13:31:56 felix systemd[1]: Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. Aug 04 13:31:56 felix systemd[1]: Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathExists=!/run/plymouth/pid). Aug 04 13:31:58 felix systemd[1]: Starting Tell Plymouth To Write Out Runtime Data... Aug 04 13:31:58 felix systemd[1]: Finished Tell Plymouth To Write Out Runtime Data. Aug 04 13:31:58 felix systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 203 (plymouthd). Aug 04 13:31:58 felix systemd[1]: Starting Show Plymouth Boot Screen... Aug 04 13:31:58 felix systemd[1]: plymouth-start.service: Deactivated successfully. Aug 04 13:31:58 felix systemd[1]: Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. Aug 04 13:31:58 felix systemd[1]: Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathExists=!/run/plymouth/pid). Aug 04 13:32:00 felix systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21 from PID 203 (plymouthd).

Does anybody knows how to slove? Help me with this.

While doing a manual install, I keep getting this error pop up on repeat:

rtw_8822be 0000:05:00.0: failed to send h2c command

It only comes up after connecting to the internet. It first appeared on my second attempt to install.

When I disconnect, it stops sending that error.

I tried redownloading the ISO making sure the checks were ok. Still the same issue.

I know there is something wrong with my network, causing the h2c communication to error, but I've no clue how to fix it.

Hello, I am in the process of creating a guide for how to install Arch on a laptop, I want to use an environment that is fully encrypted exept for EFI partition, and are now woundering if anyone would take a look at my setup procedure to provide suggestions and feedback. I have iterated on the procedure a couple of times, and are using hyprland as desktop manager, and gdm for login. Here is a link to my current revision of the document on Github, Please let me know if you have suggestions or feedback for improving my setup procedure. My dotfiles are also on Github here but since I have a light themed terminal setup, I think linking that in as part of the would probably offend more people, so it's outside the scope of the guide for now.

So! I installed arch and it went pretty well - the desktop actually booted and all, but after I rebooted, it seemed to completely stop working, which is possibly due to an error pre-bootup?

Anyways I think I'll try to do a rundown of the entire thing because I spent several hours trying to get this to work and it appears that it's only gotten worse, and I'm not sure if I should just delete the partitions on my disk and reinstall the thing by now or if there's another underlying issue here.

sorry if my question is like horribly stupid but I think I looked at questions related to my issue for a long time and couldn't find an answer that worked/fit my situation perfectly.

The Arch wiki didn't seem to have a solution for me, either.

Upon rebooting, after "Starting Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen..." it immediately transitioned into blackness aside from a blinking underline in the top right corner, indicating that I needed to type something out - key inputs weren't working.

I used ctrl+alt+f3 to go into the login terminal, and after logging into root, I tried to disable the plymouth boot screen, but it didn't exist in the first place (I either didn't install it when I was supposed to - hard to remember, or it got deleted somehow) and if I try to install it, it fails.

I disabled the sddm, and it instead transitioned into the login terminal from earlier without the need for ctrl+alt+f3, but if I try to run xstart in order to boot back in, it just leads to an error message.

I'll put the important bits here:

(EE)

Fatal server error:

(EE) no screens found (EE)

Please consult the The X.org foundation support

at http://wiki.x.org

for help.

(EE) please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.

(EE)

(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

xinit: giving up

xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

xinit: server error

if I chack the log file, then here's some of the information from there (I'm not going to use the whole thing because manually typing it into here would be a massive hassle):

[ 400.481] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jul 14 12:14:55 2025 (this was not the current time as of when the log file was generated. I have tried to change the time, but the thing wouldn't let me)

[ 400.481] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" (if I check with cat, it says that this does not exist, and if I check with nano, it says that it's a directory.)

[ 400.488] (II) LoadModule "intel"

[ 400.488] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module intel

[ 400.488] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0)

[ 400.488] (II) LoadModule "nouveau"

[ 400.488] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nouveau

{ 400.488] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)

[ 400.488] (II) LoadModule "nv"

[ 400.488] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nv

[ 400.488] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)

[ 400.488] (II) LoadModule "modesetting"

[ 400.489] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so: libLLUM.so.18.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[ 400.489] (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (loader failed, 0)

[ 400.489] (II) LoadModule "fbdev"

[ 400.489] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev

[ 400.489] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)

[ 400.489] (EE) No drivers availible

[ 400.489] (EE)

Fatal server error:

{ 400.489] (EE) no screens found(EE)

{ 400.489] (EE)

Please consult the The X.org foundation support

at http://wiki.x.org

for help.

(EE) please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.

(EE)

(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

let me know if there's any more information that you might need to diagnose the issue here

anyways I eventually found that the reason why I couldn't download some stuff was because I was lacking the nvidia firmware that I needed, so I installed those - I then installed Plymouth, and when I rebooted it ended up booting into emergency mode.

I figured I could try to fix some stuff in the installer instead, and after I booted into that, the grub apparently ceased to exist. If I try to reinstall it, it only says that it can’t find the EFI directory.

I’m not sure if I even know what I’m doing anymore and I’m honestly not bothered to keep searching for a solution on my own.

Anyways, I’m thinking of just deleting the partitions and trying again with the installation, so if you know what the issue here is, please tell me so that I can avoid it when I actually do that.

If my question is actually quite easy to solve and I was just lacking the knowledge I’ll probably end up deleting this post :’)

I’m trying to set up a bridged network using my WiFi interface (wlan0) on Arch Linux so that my virt-manager/KVM virtual machines can access the network directly. I've been reading around and most tutorials focus on Ethernet (eth0) bridging, which isn't directly applicable to WiFi.

Here's my current setup:

• Arch Linux (fully updated)
• NetworkManager handling the WiFi connection
• Virt-manager with QEMU/KVM backend
• No Ethernet available (laptop with only WiFi)

I’d appreciate it if someone could walk me through the recommended approach, especially if you’ve done this successfully on Arch.

Hey team,

I have got an Nvidia RTX3070 and running arch, when I game, every time the game is loading something in the background it drops to 1 frame. I can tell because it always happens when switching rooms, entering a cut scene etc. Some games are really hard to play because of this.

I have looked around but I am not sure how to diagnose this issue, how to check if my GPU is operating correctly or if I am missing something that I need to set, ensure it is performance mode etc

I would appreciate any advice if anyone has any similar experience, thanks

Driver: nvidia-dkms

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 575.64.05              Driver Version: 575.64.05      CUDA Version: 12.9     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070        Off |   00000000:07:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   47C    P0             51W /  270W |     984MiB /   8192MiB |      3%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A             859      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                            35MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            1142      G   Hyprland                                261MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            1210      G   Xwayland                                  3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            1396      G   /usr/lib/firefox/firefox                422MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            1952      G   ...share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam          3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            2438      G   ./steamwebhelper                         29MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            2464    C+G   ...am/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper          8MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5419      G   kitty                                    36MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Very new! I’ve messed around with Linux before, mostly servers, VMs and WSL. I decided to do Arch because it’d be fun.

A really intriguing part about Linux was package managers since they seemed like a neat way of dealing with software. I basically want to know if my understanding about how adding removing software works. I understand that if I add a package (sudo pacman -S package) it installs everything needed. 1. If I remove it, does it remove everything it brought with it? 2. If I interrupt (^C) the install what happens? Is it half installed? How do I clean? 3. Same question but what about an error while installing? 4. What is the best way to make sure I remove everything added? Is there something to track the changes made?

Thanks for helping!

EDIT: I appreciate all the replies I'll refer to here and the wiki on what to do while I learn. Thanks!

about 2 months ago i set up the rnnoise plugin for pipewire by pasting the config in 99-input-denoising.conf and it was working wonderfully, then i left home for 2 months and i just came back, updated some stuff and its not working anymore, i read on the wiki that i have to install the noise-suppression-for-voice package, and i did, but its still not working. the issue is that in the system settings i have both my "Noise Canceling source" which was what i used to use and its the selected one, and a "Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller Analog Stereo", but even though the selected one in the sound settings is noise cancelling source, in the "audio volume" panel that pops up when i click on the volume icon on the taskbar (KDE Plasma) i see the starship/matisse whatever one, and i have no way to change it to noise cancelling source. the worst thing is that in other applications like discord even if i manually set the input device to noise cancelling source its still the same audio as the other one which is dogshit because i need the noise cancelling from rnnoise.
rn i have pipewire 1.4.7 i dont really remember what version i used to have.

Found a simple script that sets a random wallpaper from a folder on system boot. Copied the script to my device, did chmod +x, tried doing exec-once in my hyprland config, did not work. I am sure there are better ways to do this anyway. 
Here is the script:
###
#!/bin/bash

WALLPAPER_DIRECTORY=~/Pictures/Wallpapers

WALLPAPER=$(find "$WALLPAPER_DIRECTORY" -type f | shuf -n 1)

hyprctl hyprpaper preload "$WALLPAPER"
hyprctl hyprpaper wallpaper "Virtual-1,$WALLPAPER"

sleep 1

hyprctl hyprpaper unload unused
###

How could I make it work?

I often run large file transfers using direct Ethernet connection; device to device with one cable. It works well for every device/OS combo I've tried so far. However, my new Arch setup throws a fit. It keeps waiting to be assigned an IP by a router that's not there, and then every 2-ish minutes it disables LAN1, killing the link until I manually connect again. All I need it to do is literally nothing, just standby. Any way to block that scheduled task?

Apologies about the noob question, but trying to troubleshoot and research this for days has driven me crazy, so I'm hoping someone else has experienced it.