Do you have any pointers on how i could solve this?

No?

Also new Thinkpads kinda suck, you cant add ram and cant upgrade processor and them cost around 2000 dollars which is crazy

ye, when i got my t61p i was honestly surprised as to how much you can upgrade in it even without replacing the mobo

add-in pcie cards for usb3.0? yep. two free internal pcie-mini slots for stuff like modems and bluetooth and basically anything else? gotcha. up to 8 gigs of ram? you name it. its awesome.

here’s a fetch for curious ones

Proprietary Nvidia drivers?

proprietary NVidia drivers.

had to downgrade Xorg, but on arch its easier to do than on, say, Debian, and it does not break anything significantly

Ideapads aren’t in the same league as Thinkpads, so that’s to be expected

Why did you have to do this?

I may have broken some settings relative to monitor output.
I have an nvidia card.

When i boot the archiso i get 1920x1080x75hz even in tty, but when i boot from my ssd i don’t get it in tty nor in xorg.
If i try to startx i get a monitor floating message saying “input not supported”
I think i messed up.
Do you have any pointers on how i could solve this?
I reinstalled the xorg metapackage but it didn’t solve this

You could try moving any file under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ that contains monitor configuration (e.g. if you created something with nvidia-xconfig rather than just using the DE’s built-in monitor configuration tools).

Thx i’ll try that😁

Hello everyone
I’m a newbie arch user and I just wanted to ask about your preferences on different DEs out there
I’ve tried xfce , deepin , kde and recently installed cutefish (idk if you’ve heard of it)
so I’m looking forward for your wisdom and knowledge to help me out ! 😊
Thanks!

P.S. : I didn’t like deepin at all , beautiful but not really functional
also kde had some problems on it’s applications
so ….
thanks again!

gnome runs just fine

Cinnamon is working good, also try some WMs, highly customisable and consume a little ram/cpu

I’ll give it a shot
Thanks!

Ofc they are
but i’m not really an expert programmer or sth
is there any good guildlines for newbies like me?
for example i3

Use KDE

I always hear of complaints about Plasma, but I’ve never had an issue

Maybe I did sth wrong
but i even couldn’t change bash to zsh
its commands weren’t functional

So?

Might be a config issue, I use zsh with plasma

Me too, KDE is great

I used to be a gnome user

And some other issues …
idk i actually liked how it looked
but some minor issues kept annoying me

i3 documentation is great and easy, the thing is you will need to remember hotkeys to use i3, you dont need to be a programmer or know any language to change the config for your needs

What issues?

I mean, it’s alright. Beats GNOME in my opinion these days, that used to be my go-to; I was tempted to try cutefish but then I heard it was EoL

There’s no issue

A lot of useless stuff

Maybe …
i’ll give it a shot again then

Reminds me of windows, just better

You can install it without the fluff as far as I know.