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Antergos actually uses the same lsb-release file as Arch. To get the Antergos logo back, remove the package lsb-release via Pacman. For more information, see here

For anyone else experiencing this issue from NZ/Australia, I created my own mirrorlist using a mix between the official Arch mirrors and the Antergos mirrorlist. On my internet connection the download speeds range from ~200KB/s to 1.5MB/s, which is a lot better than servers cnchi chose at least.

The mirrorlist needs to be overwritten (/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist) after cnchi performs its mirror ranking.

This is one of those things where if you install Arch (even in a VM, just to learn) you'll by coincidentally learning how to help yourself to troubleshoot. Since you're new to Antergos/Arch, I would suggest setting up a VM and practice installing Arch, when you're up to it.

In most systemd distributions, the journal is effectively the log. If something breaks, anything, you should look here. When programs fail, they should report errors to the journal. You can look for errors, which are clues as to what's wrong, then you can go down the path of searching for a solution.

Here's a link to some friendly examples of how to check your journal:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-journalctl-to-view-and-manipulate-systemd-logs

And I would suggest reading the man pages, too:

$ man journalctl

JDK is if you need to compile and provides the function “javac”, JRE is if you only need to run and it provides the function “java”

To run your JAR file:
1) Check if you have java installed via terminal
$ java —version
2) If not installed, then install it
$ sudo pacman -S jre8-openjdk
3) Run your JAR file like so, substitute where needed
$ java -jar [options] thejarfile.jar [args]

If that doesn’t work you will most likely need to use Oracles JRE which is a bit more complicated to install.
Here is a link to the wiki on Arch linux -> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=jre8-openjdk

The same as Arch: 4.8.13
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/

If youhave problems with 4.8, you might try linux-lts (4.4.43): https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux-lts/

Check out "Failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)" error

Well, you can download a pre-4.4 LTS kernel and install it manually:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernels/Traditional_compilation

https://www.kernel.org/

At least, even if you're using an older kernel, you're using something safe security-wise.

In my experience, almost never.

I should clarify, though I'm a somewhat longtime Arch user, I've spent plenty of time away from Arch and derivatives.

Between Arch, Antergos and Manjaro (though Manjaro somewhat mitigates your concerns anyhow) I probably have about 3 years of actual time spent using something Arch based as my daily driver.

There have been instances where Arch updates have required significant manual intervention to avoid breakage, but none that I can recall while I was using it.

Currently I'm about 3 months in on Antergos, and I haven't had to think at all about a single update during that time.

I was told when I first started using Arch that it was better as an Arch user to update frequently rather than waiting a long time between updates, so that you don't "stack" any little issues that do occur, frustrating troubleshooting that could be required. I don't know how true this is, but I have always followed the advice anyhow, as it seems to make sense to me on the surface. I generally apply updates daily, or if I'm feeling lazy I might do it twice a week.

If you want to be really careful, you can always check the front page here before updating:

https://www.archlinux.org/

If there is a known problem, or a planned set of steps for a just released update, you will see an entry there. I'll admit I almost never do that though.

In my opinion, you'll find far more people who don't use rolling distros telling you how often things break when rolling than you will users of rolling distros.

It happens, for sure. I bet you could find someone with a horror story. But it's not that hard to find Ubuntu update horror stories either.

As others have pointed out, the benefit of Antergos is the installer. You'll be updating right along with "pure" Arch, so keep that in mind. Don't enable the testing repos and I really think you are likely to be OK.

I read a story about this in Linux and then someone suggested this and the person that submitted the story said it worked. https://sourceforge.net/projects/rescatux/

I have this on a disk now just incase windows 10 tries that crap on me and I'm still more or less a linux newb but I'm learning fast and trying to get the tools I need for emergencies.

All I did when Antergos went down was to update all mirrors to Arch sources. I removed antergos sources from pacman.conf and replaced the mirrorlist using mirrors from one generated at https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ After that ran:

sudo pacman -Syyuu

There were a few other issues I had to run down, and cinnamon broke during the the process.
Purged and reinstalled cinnamon and everything has been running fine since. Probably preferable to just do a clean install, but it is certainly possible.

There was also a script running around to convert to EndevourOS, but I cannot find it at the moment.

No it does not. The slide show while installing doesnt work, but thats not really an issue.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/antergos/files/mirror/iso/release/antergos-minimal-17.5-x86_64.iso/download

Download, install, done.

Go here: https://www.archlinux.org/groups/
or
open up pamac (the package manager GUI) and click on the groups button on the left.

Scroll down and you'll see a bunch of kde groups. They're just handy little lists of packages, so to install a group you just select all the packages in the group and install those. Note that pacman can also do this from the command line e.g.

pacman -S kdebase

would install all the packages in the kdebase group.

Anyway I'm guessing you probably want the "plasma" package. The rest of them are up to you.

Did this, and rebooted, everything is working fine (I only made a sub volume for "/" as "/home" is in another partition). But now when I try to install timeshift (AUR) it gives a lot of build errors like this one (repeated many times), pretty sure not related to the BTRFS stuff, some update must have broken this pkgbuild, if you've got any hints on how to fix this I'd be glad to hear them.

Ok, do i understand that right? - The Live-System does not boot?

Please check: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU#Loading

The OpenSource-Part is in the kernel - i know there were some patches after 4.7 kernel release. But Antergos should have that, since i guess they are runnning 4.7.x?

An easier way - i dunno how your internet is and if you got some time - you could try manjaro, i fairly recently got an release. Just to see, if it boots properly. ( - https://manjaro.org/ - )

UNetbootin is unreliable in my experience. If you look at the instructions here the first bullet point says to not to use UNetbootin. I you can't be assed to read or mess with dd, I suggest you try etcher. It's worked pretty well for me.

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