blendOS

blendOS is Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic. https://blendos.co

blendOS

blendOS is Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic. https://blendos.co

10/1/2025

Is Gamescope incompatible w/BlendOS?

So this has been a question I've been dying to ask but I don't want to waste anyone's time on something I could solve myself. I amended -gamescope to my /system.yaml file naturally give it a whirl & the following results return to me. (I'll share the log file after posting, too long to copy/paste - so check comments bellow)...

Christian

10/1/2025

"Dash To Dock" Extension needs updating

Can I get whoever is in charge of updates, to update the "Dash To Dock" GNOME extension to the latest version (102?)? Pretty please! (Or is this something that should automatically come from the Arch upstream?)

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9/26/2025

How to(per-edit) Back up system.yaml

I see this as only an absolute win, as not every package from the AUR is going to play nicely with BlendOS(imo). Or sometimes we modify system.yaml and we made the error and didn't realize it(new users : aka me) until you notice roots didn't actually apply.. Anyways!!...

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9/23/2025

BlendOS - How to Fix Controller - Steam Input only working in-Steam: Menus, NOT in Games

This is a short on how to resolve Controller issues, w/Steam Input in-Games not working, but the Controller works in the Steam Menu(Like Big Picture Mode) & is detected by the DE(KDE) as installe & working. If Steam Input will only work properly, if the game has no Official Controller Support(M+KB ONLY) or only M+KB(Steam Input: Controller) Bindings then this is likely(probably) what you're looking for. This will hopefully resolve your issues...

Christian

9/11/2025

Install Arch package without optional dependencies

When installing an Arch package via system.yaml, does the package install all optional dependencies? If yes, how can I avoid that?

Christian

9/4/2025

Stuff that does not survive akshara update

I've found a few things that do not seem to survive akshara update (and there may be others): 1. user defined systemd services: I got a tiny service that I uploaded to the usual spot (/etc/systemd/system) that always gets deleted(!) following akshara update 2. the ssh setting (see screenshot below) always gets set to off following akshara update ...

Solution:

Thanks all for the input! Adding gnome-remote-desktop to the services section of system.yaml fixes this.

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9/1/2025

Not booting into GNOME setup after install

Hi, I had blendOS installed in my ssd and I didn’t want my drive to be encrypted anymore so I’ve tried to do a fresh install in my ssd the problem is that now when I boot it shows this error: [FAILED] Failed to start Generate locales using locale-gen. And instead of booting into the GNOME setup, it boots into the login screen(attached image) but I didn’t create a user because the setup didn’t run. Any idea what could be causing this? Any help is appreciated 😄...

shadowskull0099

8/27/2025

help with install

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

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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 /

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blendOS

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blendOS

blendOS is Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic. https://blendos.co