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shadowfoxzero

8/27/2025

help with install

blend os keeps creating user uid sessions when i start the distro

𝕚𝕟𝔽𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕪-𝟛𝟚

8/20/2025

Secure Boot?

Mostly an isolated question to understand if BlendOS supports Secure Boot or if plans will exist in the future to do so if it doesn't already.

nattykong

8/17/2025

Yaml format to prevent "failed to remove '/.new_rootfs/': Directory not empty"

arch-repo: 'https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com' impl: 'https://github.com/blend-os/tracks/raw/main' repo: 'https://pkg-repo.blendos.co' track: 'plasma' packages:...

Solution:

And double check that all your packages exist in the repos

tolga

8/11/2025

Custom personal repo - HOW!

i dont get this at all and the instructions on the blendos is very unclear to me i only have this in my system.yaml `repo: 'https://pkg-repo.blendos.co'...

Solution:

repo: 'https://pkg-repo.blendos.co/'
arch-repo: 'https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/'
impl: 'https://github.com/tolgaerok/blendos-nvidia-kde/raw/main'
track: 'plasma'

...

tolga

8/10/2025

Which track to use?

Abit confused with the tracks. I'm using the plasma track but I've noticed the blendos track is titled custome and has a slew of pkgs. Also with plasma track do I add 'plasma' or plasma or 'kde'or kde or do I just stick with 'blendos' Not clear which direction to take. Would appreciate a clear explanation instead of a plain link to the blendos website as that dosnt really cut the mustard at all...

Solution:

repo: 'https://pkg-repo.blendos.co/'
arch-repo: 'https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/'
impl: 'https://github.com/tolgaerok/blendos-nvidia-kde/raw/main'
track: 'plasma'

...

tolga

8/10/2025

How to add Australian Spell Check

How to add Australian spell check into system yaml please

Solution:

packages: - 'aspell' - 'aspell-en' - 'hunspell' - 'hunspell-en_au'...

tolga

8/10/2025

locale errors

`r/lib/initcpio/functions: line 845: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_AU.UTF-8): No such file or directory /usr/lib/initcpio/functions: line 845: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_AU.UTF-8): No such file or directory /usr/lib/initcpio/functions: line 845: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_AU.UTF-8): No such file or directory /usr/lib/initcpio/functions: line 845: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_AU.UTF-8): No such file or directory /usr/lib/initcpio/functions: line 845: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_AU.UTF-8): No such file or directory...

Solution:

- 'locale-gen en_AU.UTF-8' - 'sudo localedef -i en_AU -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8'...

/home/wal/name.txt

7/30/2025

language appear ugly or just squares

Arabic looks ugly and separated and Japaneses is just blocks

Christian

7/26/2025

HelpWire container choice

There are two packages for HelpWire: a Fedora package, and a Debian package (no Arch or AUR package unfortunately). Which one do you guys suggest I install? ... meaning which container do you guys suggest I build, Debian or Fedora? Which one's "better"? (There 's also a portable HelpWire package: should I go for that instead? Where would I install that one?)...

Christian

7/24/2025

The "commands" section of system.yaml

Just making sure I understand the role of the "commands:" section of the system.yaml: 1. I can place in there any custom commands that I need executed at system build time, right? Such as, say, "git clone," or "echo 'mask' > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe6E," or "flatpak install <list of flatpak packages to be installed>" etc.? Is that it? 2. What if some of these commands (such as the "git clone" above) must NOT be executed as root? Where do I place those?...

Solution:

@autisumn, @ﾑ丂ｲ乇尺ﾉ丂ズ: At any rate, I am tempted to conclude at this point that the commands: section of system.yaml cannot be used as a substitute for an installation/configuration/customization script unfortunately. It would have been nice to have all this in one spot, but it seems that's not possible. Looks like I will have to maintain a separate script for that. At least I can use this section to install/update flatpak apps: I know it works fine for that! Many thanks for your attention to this matter though!...

Christian

7/23/2025

Portainer Agent

What would be the recommended procedure to install Portainer Agent in blendOS?

Christian

7/22/2025

Solaar

I just installed Solaar from the Arch repo using a line in the system.yaml file. However, when I open it, it doesn't detect any of my Ligitech devices. Now I seem to recall from my Clear Linux (CL) days that Solaar needs permission to run as root. How do we do that in blendOS though? In Cl I used to do it via a .rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d/. Will that work here as well?

Solution:

/etc is writeable

Dev,xnts0

7/22/2025

Akshara Update issue

I can't enter to the system so I went to the live usb usually I enter chroot and update the system and it's work but This time because out of the space i cant so I thought is space issue and I extended the partition 90GB and try to update and this appear how to fix it

Solution:

delete .update.tar.zst or update.tar.zst and any folders starting with . from /

evelyn

7/20/2025

having some trouble with .net 7.0 in system.yaml packages

I need dotnet 7.0 , so I added https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/dotnet-sdk-7.0/ to system.yaml , and then tried updating my system. The issue is: `[ERROR] failed to download packages [ERROR] aborting umount: /.new_rootfs/: not mounted....

message.txt

lyn

7/13/2025

akshara update hangs with windscribe on

``` [user@piercer ~]$ sudo akshara update [sudo] password for user:
[INFO] attempting to acquire system lock [INFO] downloading Arch tarball......

Ashish Alexander

7/6/2025

Install "sucessful" but Failed - Cannot find the Boot entry in BIOS

Install "sucessful" but I cannot find a 5th Entry - the Blend OS Entry when booting. it only has USB and other OSs

Alex G

7/3/2025

Any way to do host-spawn?

There are some applications that open the file explorer, which fail in a container because these programs are installed in the base system. With distrobox I could symlink these to a host-exec command. Is there any way to do that in BlendOS?...

Solution:

Yeah after installing it I can use it, I was just thinking that it might be a common use case. 🤔 I'll try to use this for a while to see if there are any big caveats...

Wakka

6/30/2025

[SOLVED] Can't become root in any container

It was working fine earlier this morning. Did I make a serious mistake?...

Solution:

solved: purge the podman cache

/home/wal/name.txt

6/28/2025

How to get in linux with a broken grub? Just a grub commands

I tried to install blendos following the instructions but it always didnt work and I just want to enter linux before fixing it

Solution:

Found a fix its --- Boot into BlendOS using GRUB manually, then fix the bootloader....

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6/27/2025

Simppe Question about Pods & Gaming Performance

I remember reading that on BlendOS and gaming on containers specifically whether the container is Ubuntu or Arch performance remain similar due to the container using the core kernel to power it. I feel I'm misremembering as I haven't been around since V3, so if I could just be better informed about how BlendOS's Gaming performance in containers is effected that would be great....

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