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

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Display manager died after update

I tried running system apex-update to update the system and the login screen/display manager died after update. I tried to update it in order to fix the nvidia driver which was broken.

Nvidia Optimus on laptop

I am having trouble getting steam games working with the GPU in my laptop. nvidia-smi has also stopped working for some reason. Can I use a command like prime-select to switch GPUs?

Accessing servers running in podman containers

I have a servarr and jellyfin setup using podman compose. I want to be able to access the webinterfaces. The normal method using port forwarding doesn't work for some reason.

BledOS as debian

Now Bled and Vanilla OS are friends we can get a debian based Bled os?

vim defaults

having a super hard time getting .vimrc to be read in as my source for defaults. the normal stuff isn't working is there a trick to getting this working on blenos?...

No wifi for install screen

I booted up the install usb (flashed through balena etcher). I get the Jade UI but it says no internet connection. The network icon is disabled and I think it doesn't recognize the wifi adapter. This is a brand new MSI Prestige 16 with i7-13700H and 32GB RAM with Intel graphics and integrated Wifi 6. How do I enable wifi?

KDE plasma not working

Hello, has anyone installed kde plasma? How are you doing with it? I personally have thousands of problems, the distribution kit with this environment is completely not working, I can describe the problems for a very long time, but probably the biggest one is not working containers, only Arch and Fedora work, and already half of them are not working, they cannot install anything, the same Steam or yay, and debian ubuntu kali is completely not working (the root password does not work, I drive the...

trying to fix audio sibilance

i have noticed some nasty noises coming from my speakers only in blendos gnome 44 i think. am trying to fix that and hit this wall here when trying to make this change, it is odd. says the package doesn't exist but then it says i can't install jack2 cause pipewire-jack conflicts......but i can't remove pipewire-jacked. anyone know what i am doing wrong?...

Unable to install packages after installing Blend OS 4 Alpha on fresh Arch install

I've just install Blend OS 4 alpha, the described on the announcement, just after installing Arch (from bootstrap, not iso) on a laptop. Many things works well, but... not my touchpad... So I think to install drivers or something. I tried the system , but it is missing (and so are missing user and bpkg commands). As expected, pacman does not work. What should I do ?...

Migration / Switching

Haven't found any related post . I downloaded Gnome version insted of KDE by mistake . Anyway I installed it. Is there a way to switch to KDE Plasma now?...

Dual boot and encryption

Hey there! Is there any way to install blendOS in dual boot with win11 and use encryption and lvm?

I just installed blend os on an external

I just installed blend os on an external hard drive, but blend os does not appear in the bios nor does manjaro grub detect it, what can I do?

Boot Menu Can't Find Windows After Installation

After installing blendOS on my 1TB SSD i have windows on a separate 500gb SSD but it is no longer listed in my bios, how do i fix this issue?

balena etcher & ventoy cant flash the iso

I am using etcher for flashing all i get is this when i try to flash latest blendos kde iso by selecting the file. Also, when i use a different way (Ventoy) i reboot to ventoy and when i select the blendos iso i get a flashing black screen for half a second with some errors and then closes....
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Awesomewm Support?

Anyone using awesomewm ? Any advice how to install it the correct way to be part of the "main/host" system...

Trouble installing `steam-devices`

Is there anything particular that I need to do to get AUR packages to install using system? I can't manually set udev rules (like the ones Flatpak Steam requires for gamepad support) bc of the immutable system but installing in the containers doesn't appear to do anything (related question: is priority just for binaries, or packages?)...

Running application installed in container

I have created an Arch container and installed evernote-bin using yay. The application shows up in my list of applications but I am unable to launch it. Very new to this OS and can't figure out how to launch apps installed using these containers. Any direction is appreciated.

I just installed BlendOS and looking for documentation

I'm looking for info on a few simple usability issues. 1. I would like to copy/paste in the Linux containers I setup. for ex. I want to install OBS, Zoom, Chrome (full browser) etc. in Ubuntu Linux container but I'm sadly used to a GUI installer so copy and pasting stuff like urls for using wget to download .DEB's, is copy/paste with mouse or CTRL-V possible? 2. may also solve 1. can Gnome Software be installed in container and then be available in the host system? Would be useful until I get fa...