2025-06-25 :

I HATE ARCH LINUX

despite arch linux being my main distro

i hate it so much

so basically...

arch linux updated how they handle linux-firmware link
so they refactored how the packages were managed and now we need to manually uninstall and reinstall the linux-firmware package.

massive problem is

im stupid, i forgot to reinstall it

this lead to a massive headache where I didn't have intel firmware or realtek firmware so I didn't have internet or graphics.

so I had to chroot into my laptop and remove the gdm display manager so that I could go to tty. in tty after installing sway and i3 I noticed I had no wifi, so I decided to use NetworkManager's nmtui to figure out the problem

nmtui showed me that i had no wifi hardware, so i checked if i had linux-firmware, and i realized i forgot to reinstall it.

oops