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

11/22/2025

GNOME 49.1

For some reason, my GNOME version still shows 49 even though I am pretty sure that Arch Linux has already moved up to 49.1. Am I doing something wrong? Or is this yet another one of those "we need Rudra" situations, where GNOME cannot be updated w/o his input?

Solution:

Whatever’s going on, it’s upstream

AnasXGhost

11/12/2025

Cannot install KDE Plasma desktop-environment

Hello everyone! I've been using Blend OS for almost a year now! But I'm used to use GNOME DE, but I discovered later how much I'd like KDE Plasma, and I know that BlendOS supports KDE Plasma and Waydroid would still work as well, the matter is that...I cannot do those, [pacman] doesn't work as we all know, changing the system.yaml is useless, I've tried it, as useless as trying to install KDE Plasma by a container as well, so what should I do?

Solution:

Ah that package doesn’t exist anymore

RIFLICK

11/4/2025

Hey is this install successful or failure can anyone check this out and help me out. Please

error: failed retrieving file 'gst-plugins-bad-libs-1.26.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig' from johannesburg.mirror.pkgbuild.com : Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds warning: failed to retrieve some files error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. [?25h [01m [31m[ERROR] [0mfailed to download packages [0m...

Solution:

therefore the install was not successful (it says it is, this is a bug)

michael

11/2/2025

Install on Trashcan Mac

Hello, I am having a problem installing on a "Trashcan" Mac Pro (Intel Xeon E5). The installation itself ran smoothly. After the first restart, only a black screen appeared. There was no way to open a terminal. I suspect that this is due to a missing driver for the AMD FirePro. Thank you very much....

WoozyLizard3666

10/18/2025

Magisk in WayDroid

Well, please take a look at the image, and anybody tell me how do I get magisk in WayDroid inside of BlendOS

Solution:

follow this but replace libhoudini with magisk

Christian

10/17/2025

pcscd service not starting

I got pcscd listed in the services section of system.yaml (see attached screenshot), yet the pcscd service does not start upon reboot: ```[dad@DadsGram ~]$ systemctl status pcscd ○ pcscd.service - PC/SC Smart Card Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/pcscd.service; indirect; preset: disabled)...

Senzenfrenz

10/17/2025

errors when installing with pacman

Hello, is it not possible anymore to install via pacman with blend OS v4? (screenshot translates to "Error: Operation could not be started (Cannot lock database) Error: Database could not be locked: The file system is read-only")...

Solution:

@ﾑ丂ｲ乇尺ﾉ丂ズ, it looks like you're having an issue with using pacman on the host, please see the below embed:

Zeox

10/12/2025

I tried to install it in China very slowly.

The network installation in China is only 10kb/s, which is very slow. I have tried many times, but I still can't install it.

Christian

10/8/2025

Rudra

So guys, I don't suppose there's anything we can do to get @rudra' s attention, is there?

/home/arshan

10/4/2025

Installed blendOS, and apparently it didnt install

So i went through the installation and i manually partitioned cause i have cachyOS and windows on the same drive, and when i rebooted it just booted into my cachyos bootloader (limine) with no blendOS option. I tried grub, i tried sudo limine-update i tried looking through my boot options in BIOS, and i tried running os-prober (on cachyos) and it only said windows boot manager. i tried running the installer again and at the end it said something about update already being installed and you n...

Solution:

you can make a user

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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 😄...