From artist at artixlinux.org Wed Sep 3 20:07:58 2025 From: artist at artixlinux.org (artist) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 20:07:58 +0200 Subject: [artix-general] Artix Has Nasty Bugs In-Reply-To: <_QJbOtnAktzPOO2_TAqNL45k0JuIkaPZPOr99sB7d3Y5ppDKz7Ix_ienLR4sRXjzUEaoJ-CSs_n1cJMgWAqhNq639iEGESsRfRjJk_eGPxI=@proton.me> References: <_QJbOtnAktzPOO2_TAqNL45k0JuIkaPZPOr99sB7d3Y5ppDKz7Ix_ienLR4sRXjzUEaoJ-CSs_n1cJMgWAqhNq639iEGESsRfRjJk_eGPxI=@proton.me> Message-ID: <4edf2ce2-e58a-483a-bba1-7a5b6d42dac2@artixlinux.org> Most of of what you write is factually?incorrect. If you create a forum post, or explain an issue clearly in a chat, people will be willing to help. If you post the same trash repeatedly under different proton accounts chances are you will be ignored, again. On 9/3/25 19:23, august wrote: > I tested the latest ISOs from September. Artix has nasty bugs. Other Arch > derivatives simply work. Only Artix introduced these showstopping "bugs". > What happened?! > > 1. KDE is missing keyboard shortcuts. I assume KDE was compiled > without keyboard shortcuts flag. Ouch! Result: keyboard shortcuts > don't work. (I have never, ever met this "bug" in any other distro, > neither Arch derivative nor other). > > 2. Regression: sound is not working anymore. > > Info from KDE's tray sound icon: "Connection to Audio Sound Service > Lost". This means, that audio server doesn't work. > Assuming pulse being the default, I ripped it out and installed > pipewire. Manually started it (runit), but still got: "Connection to > Audio Sound Service Lost". Audio doesn't work on Artix anymore. > > 3. $ pacman -Ss pipewire results in: > > pipewire-dinit - present > pipewire-openrc - present > > pipewire-pulse-dinit - present > pipewire-pulse-openrc - present > > wireplumber-dinit -present > wireplumber-openrc - present > > pipewire-runit - missing, ouch! > pipewire-pulse-runit - missing, ouch! > wireplumber-runit - missing, ouch! > *Users must manually start pipwire, after each login, if they want to > use runit. > Runit is simple and fast and should be "the first class citizen". > Perhaps, even the default. > > Others: > $ pacman -Ss pipewire S6 > $ no results > > Expected results: > 1. Compile Artix KDE with keyboard shortcuts flag included, so > shortcuts work, just like with 100% other KDE distros. Only Artix > doesn't have KDE shortcuts. > 2. & 3. Fix sound regression, so you won't have to hide the sound icon > anymore. Make pipewire the default sound server that does start with > the system, including runit service manager. Unhide the sound icon. > > --- > > My final thoughts: > > Provide pure, clean, default KDE without any changes with Xlibre and > runit as a weekly ISO image. This way you will get more than two birds > with one stone: > > 1. Users will be able to test Artix with Xlibre (which everyone hopes > will be the default, seeing the great changes for quality speed and > rendering); > 2. Users will receive Artix with pure, clean KDE to configure as they > please without the necessity of hacking and reverting Artix devs > personal changes to the system; quicker and more sane); > 3. Users will be able to test other service managers beside Artix > default OpenRC (as it turns out, some, like runit, are incomplete in > Artix and Artix with runit cannot be used as a daily driver, which is > sad as runit is fast and the simplest of them all); > 4. Artix will attract more users. More users = more bug reports. Bugs > you may miss and not be aware of. And trust me, users yearn for > non-woke distro, esp. with Xlibre. Let me tell you: when one of the > most hated youtubers (when just only his name is mentioned on any > forum, being either a distro, GNOME or any other linux related forum, > the user who mentioned his name is immediately, automatically > "purged". That how hated he is.) was contacted by one of the distro > declaring being non-woke, and he mentioned it, the user base > skyrocketed. And when the users invest their time, they surely report > bugs. Reusult: stable, working system. And some may even propose and > submit fixes. Everyone benefits. Stable system always win. > > So close, but not yet there: No systemd Artix + clean, correctly > compiled KDE + Xlibre + working runit. ?This would be worth a > headline! So close, so close..., but still not there :(. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: