While doing the updates, I proceeded to upgrade to full version. I selected only a few options to install on desktop system (chromium and libreoffice) then applied to process.
The installer will download an individual file very quickly, but then it takes a minute or so for the next file to start, which will finish almost instantly. Only large files show progress, and those download at approximately 10MB/s. The next file takes a long time to start then.
When I installed Dr460nized on my laptop, everything went very quickly and smoothly.
My desktop is a ryzen5 3700x, gigabyte Aoros b550 mobo. I’m using free drivers.
Yeah, there were a lot of mirrors timing out, and it looked like when I tested mirrors, it just went through the entire list each time I tried to download a file.
After a while, observing and noting which mirror DID work (only 1 was on the final list) I found the mirror list file and deleted everything but the one mirror that worked, and after that, everything came down nice and quickly.
The strange thing is that my laptop, doing the exact same mirror searches on the exact same wifi, found a lot more active mirrors.
Could it be a drivers problem with my motherboard?
I've tried other distros before: Ubuntu could use my wifi, but not my ethernet, Debian couldn't use either, and so on. Only Garuda was able to use both with free drivers.
I'll look for manual arch-linux drivers for my mobo, maybe that'll help. Booting with nonfree didn't work at all, it would just lock up on the load-in screen.
# When: 2021-02-19 14:15:02 UTC
# From: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/
# Retrieved: 2021-02-19 14:12:14 UTC
# Last Check: 2021-02-19 13:21:00 UTC
Server = https://mirror.chaoticum.net/arch/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.f4st.host/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.fra10.de.leaseweb.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.pseudoform.org/$repo/os/$arch
:: Synchronisiere Paketdatenbanken...
core ist aktuell
extra ist aktuell
community 5,4 MiB 2,48 MiB/s 00:02 [----------------------------------------------] 100%
multilib ist aktuell
chaotic-aur ist aktuell
:: Starte vollständige Systemaktualisierung...
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