Arch User Repository (AUR) is objectively the magnum opus of Arch Linux. You can basically find anything in there. Java, IDEs, everything. Hell, maybe even viruses. No need to say, it is objectively the best part of the Arch Linux experience. Personally, I use the networkmanager-iwd AUR package to replace wpa_supplicant stuff with iwd.

Finally. After what must’ve been a month, GNOME 43 is now in Arch Linux’s official repository. A bit unusual that both Fedora and Ubuntu has newer GNOME than the bleeding-edge Arch, but I’m sure Arch devs have their reasons. Yea, it has already been a month since GNOME 43 came out, and here I am ranting writing a review on it.

Update Sep 25 ‘22: Binary build of patched linux-zen kernel is now available! See here for more info. After previously wiping out Windows 10 on my laptop (an ASUS Flip 13 OLED UX363ea), I felt better. Not because it finally became the Linux master race(tm), but rather that it stopped causing third degree burns every time it booted up.

Recently I got a new laptop. It is an ASUS Zenbook flip model with i7-1165G7 (4 core…). I thought about getting an AMD model, but if there is anything good about Intel these days, it is their Linux support for mobile CPU. Right after I got this laptop, I did the thing any person would do: Putting Arch Linux on it.

The Raspberry Pi 4 is the fastest of all Pi. It brings new interfaces to the Pi family: The USB 3.0 port, and gigabit ethernet. Now, people won’t have to be constrained by the crappy USB 2.0 interface of the previous Raspberry Pi generations. The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 is even better.