Hi
First thanks to Eric, and the other devs here, for the fine work you've done.
I switched away from Arch to Artix almost exactly a year ago. I've never liked systemd but tolerated it. Until I got a three monitor setup and both systemd and pulseaudio got in the way of something I was trying to do. Which was launch GTA Online (I like the racing!), from my normal session, on a separate instance of X with xinerama so I could play at 5760 x 1080. elogind caused problems. And pulseaudio was annoying with the sound (sound from game only appeared on original desktop not in the game ! Though I found a workaround).
I considered Obarun at the time but went with Artix as migrating my current, at the time, system seemed possible and probably not with Obarun ?
Anyhow while I still have big love for Artix I think I prefer the philosophy of Obarun. Cleaner, no systemd shims, no elogind (which I wasn't using on artix bar the libs)
So I spent a day playing around with Obarun on a VM, Then a spare partition, wanted to learn enough about 66 so that I could start from minimal and then bring over the home partition from my main system to it and get every thing working (graphics tree).
It took a while and a few decisions of "Let's start from scratch again!" but I have made it :)
Crazy thing is one of the biggest issues I had was I could not get GTAV working at 5760 x 1080. 1920 x 1080 fine, 5760 x 1080 crashing. After a day messing around with that I realised it was now doing the same thing on Artix. Mother of all coincidences or I broke something but not sure what?
Anyhow I deleted and reinstalled both steam and GTAV, working at 5760 x 1080 so I'm happy. :)
Steam needs lib32-p11-kit, which has a systemd dependency but can be compiled with the ./configure option --without-systemd. However that failed to compile (failed on Artix as well, they have a modified PKGBUILD with --without-systemd. Must have built once but doesn't now). This is apparently due to a version of gettext >= 0.20 , Which it is (0.20.1-1). https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/p11-glue/2019-May/000701.html
I took their suggestion and added --disable-nls to configure as well and all was good :)
One thing that probably only applies to a numbskull like me:
On at least two occasions while using obarun-install I managed to miss "7 - Continue the installation" and just exited. Maybe it could be more idiot proof ? ;)
Thanks again. I still have a lot to learn.
First thanks to Eric, and the other devs here, for the fine work you've done.
I switched away from Arch to Artix almost exactly a year ago. I've never liked systemd but tolerated it. Until I got a three monitor setup and both systemd and pulseaudio got in the way of something I was trying to do. Which was launch GTA Online (I like the racing!), from my normal session, on a separate instance of X with xinerama so I could play at 5760 x 1080. elogind caused problems. And pulseaudio was annoying with the sound (sound from game only appeared on original desktop not in the game ! Though I found a workaround).
I considered Obarun at the time but went with Artix as migrating my current, at the time, system seemed possible and probably not with Obarun ?
Anyhow while I still have big love for Artix I think I prefer the philosophy of Obarun. Cleaner, no systemd shims, no elogind (which I wasn't using on artix bar the libs)
So I spent a day playing around with Obarun on a VM, Then a spare partition, wanted to learn enough about 66 so that I could start from minimal and then bring over the home partition from my main system to it and get every thing working (graphics tree).
It took a while and a few decisions of "Let's start from scratch again!" but I have made it :)
Crazy thing is one of the biggest issues I had was I could not get GTAV working at 5760 x 1080. 1920 x 1080 fine, 5760 x 1080 crashing. After a day messing around with that I realised it was now doing the same thing on Artix. Mother of all coincidences or I broke something but not sure what?
Anyhow I deleted and reinstalled both steam and GTAV, working at 5760 x 1080 so I'm happy. :)
Steam needs lib32-p11-kit, which has a systemd dependency but can be compiled with the ./configure option --without-systemd. However that failed to compile (failed on Artix as well, they have a modified PKGBUILD with --without-systemd. Must have built once but doesn't now). This is apparently due to a version of gettext >= 0.20 , Which it is (0.20.1-1). https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/p11-glue/2019-May/000701.html
I took their suggestion and added --disable-nls to configure as well and all was good :)
One thing that probably only applies to a numbskull like me:
On at least two occasions while using obarun-install I managed to miss "7 - Continue the installation" and just exited. Maybe it could be more idiot proof ? ;)
Thanks again. I still have a lot to learn.
