New to Garuda Mokka

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Being a long time user of KDE Neon (with more than one frustration), decided, after listening to Troy on this recent video report about Mokka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKwUY2RtvM - never heard of Mokka before, so, decided to take it out for a spin.

This was not a small leap for me.
Manjaro turned me off anything Arch for years!

So, what a pleasant surprise Mokka turned out to be!
Everything i use on normal days, was installed at a blink of the eye.
Had momentarily gone over to CachyOS, and it’s iteration of Octopi could not find Dropbox.
So, here i am, back with Mokka…
One of the issues that KDE Neon Plasma 6.4 bothered me alot (among other things), was its inability to wake up from sleep mode.
Something Mokka handles quite well thus far.

Sure, every OS has its quirks, but Mokka has broken my allergic reactions to Arch.

Thank you to Garuda team from Arkansas. :slight_smile:

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Welcome

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Thank you! :wink:

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Another win win plus with Mokka is the lightning speed apps are downloaded and installed.

Is this a typical Arch thing, or something Garuda has managed to “tweak” out?

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That’s Arch Linux’s pacman.

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On second thought, there are actually tweaks we make to make the experience better:

Our garuda-update script automatically ranks all the mirrors and makes sure the fastest mirror is chosen before running the update.

The chaotic-aur mirrors are automatically ranked based on where the closest one to you is. If that mirror happens to be offline or out of date, it will be automatically forwarded to another mirror near you too.

Additionally, Garuda Linux is also configured to run multiple downloads at once. I believe this is a default on Archlinux as well nowadays though.

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Also wait a minute….

Isn’t Manjaro considered not a Arch based distro?

I know it comes from Arch but, isn’t like Arch officially denouncing it ? xD

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One more detail, much appreciated.

Whether searching for something in Octopi to simply logging in when back from sleep mode; no need to click into a box!

Simply enter query or password and hit enter!

For me, that is a sign of finesse. :smiling_face:

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I would still call it Arch based, even if it uses a different repository set, in the same sense that Ubuntu is based on Debian. Artix is another example of an Arch based that uses different repos.

Perhaps Garuda, Endeavor and the likes can be called “Arch compatible” beyond just Arch based (taken with a grain of salt of course) because they overlay the Arch repos rather than replacing all of them. The AUR is much more likely to cause trouble in Artix or Manjaro.

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Another thing that made my day, is to find JamesDSP in Octopi. :slightly_smiling_face:

It’s (imho) the next best thing to FXsound for Windows.

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On a side note… noticed KDE will be coming up with their own rendition to be called KDE Linux and based on ARCH!

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Install only with pacman in terminal.
Best Sound with JamesDSP - Garuda’s Nextcloud

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Any specific reason for this choice?

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GG Bro

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Everything was going well, until after a few reboots.

Then Octopi started crashing all the time…

Must regrettably put Mokka on hold for a while.

Have been since, dabbing with Debian’s Trixie latest beta release and there are no crashes.

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If something is crashing check the logs why.

Octopi is working OK on Garuda Mokka. Also its used only to lazy search packages installation should be done in CLI

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Not giving up…

But… where to find the log and how to proceed with CLI.

Haven’t seriously tinkered with any Arch based system in years!

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Open Konsole, type octopi and press enter, when it crashes, observe if there’s any meaningful information in the terminal. If there is nothing helpful, you might want to try completely reinstalling octopi:

sudo pacman -Rns octopi

rm -r ~/.config/octopi

sudo pacman -Syu octopi
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Try Bauh if you want to test out a decent GUI Qt replacement for Octopi. Remember though, it’s always best to use the terminal and garuda-update for performing system updates, (not a GUI package manager).

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Arch based systems log everything into journalctl so just run journalctl in the konsole

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Or use jctl

# Get the error messages from journalctl
alias jctl 'journalctl -p 3 -xb'

or Rani …

Better use pacseek, not octopi :slight_smile: