Still trying to learn Linux and all, but now after setting up my Hyprland setup I realized i want to be able to dual boot into Windows. Can I partition my SSD after already having installing ARCH? I tried using Gparted, but it's not letting me partition my disk. Unless It's because it's being used as my home directory.

As the title says, I have been ripping my hair out for 3 hours trying to fix this. Whenever I run the "grub-install /dev/sda" command it returns 3 errors and the install fails. The errors are:

"warning: grub-core/partmap/gpt.c:gpt_partition_map_embed:194:this gpt partition label contains no BIOS boot partition; embedding won't be possible."

"warning: embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be install in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.."

"grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists."

I am a first time arch user so it's probably just me being stupid but I have everything else installed and set up, and my partitions have been made and configured with filepaths set, what am I missing here?

I had dual booted arch linux and linux mint on my PC. A few weeks ago I had to do a job which required windows and that could be done through windows only. With no option being left, I decided to put windows on my PC. With my arch linux open, I partitioned the arch linux root directory to create some space for windows, which was really stupid decision which ruined my arch. Now whenever I try to open arch linux, I get the following error:

[FAILED] Failed to start File System Check .1ad768-....
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for /sysroot.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Initrd Root File System.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Mountpoints Configured in the Real Root.
You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, or "exit" to continue bootup. 

Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
See sulogin(8) man page for more details.

Press Enter to continue.

I decided to live boot USB and tried to chroot. When I tried to mount the root partition, I got the following message.

mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. 
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call. 

I typed dmesg | grep 'sda3' and got the following output

[86.090736] EXT4-fs (sda3): bad geometry: block count 143546504 exceeds size of device (78643200 blocks) 

I do not know what should I do from here. I know what I did was very stupid. Is there any way I can recover my system or at least recover files from home directory? Please help me.

This happens like half of the time, otherwise the booting process is very fast. But why does it sometimes get stuck on this black screen "The system will reboot now!" I have no idea why this is happening or how to fix it. Sometimes It can take 5+ minutes!!

I recently reinstalled arch with hyprland, only exception is that I also installed the noctalia shell. When i reistalled davici resolve it worked fine. I followed all the steps like doing "sudo chown $USER:$GROUP /opt/resolve/.license" since I used to run into a problem where davinci resolve wouldn't let me activate the license. Now though, it re-prompts me every time I start the app. I can still have a full work session while I work after the activation but usually within a day I run out of re-activation attempts. Anyone have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this or what could be going on?

Edit: Since I needed Resolve for urgent work. I found out I can "rent" a license and connect to the app with my black magic account. When doing so the license sticks fine - no issue at all, I can restart the app as much as I want without it prompting me again. This doesn't solve my issue though as I still would prefer using my permanent license over paying 30 dollars every month.

I have a vertical monitor and I'd like to be able to snap windows to the top and bottom of the monitor, the same way you can snap them to the left and right. I haven't been able to find an option for that, and I haven't been able to find anything online about it either. Does anyone know if it's possible for me to set it up to do this? TIA

im using a debloaded custom OS for WIndows, but im soon going to get a laptop for college, and windows 11 just wont cut it, though ill need the laptop for College and work, so is there any ways i could get most adobe apps to run with gpu passthrough, Clip studio to run?

Optional but if possible it would be nice to get Fortnite too

To connect to my college’s wifi, it requires an authentication which needs a browser, but unlike my roomate’s windows laptop, mine doesn’t show the option to authenticate on browser

When I use something like http://neverssl.com or http://httpforever.com the authentication pop up only lasts a few seconds and doesn’t give me enough time to enter the login details…please help

Up until two or three days ago, everything was working fine—playing videos, audio playback, Discord conversations, and watching videos. But starting around today, things suddenly changed... even though I can still connect to the internet. Maybe Arch just isn't the right fit for me. I'm thinking of copying the data structure—including things like .sh files—and switching to something like Ubuntu. Are there any other, perhaps more complex, solutions I should try first?

Hello,

Is there a way to minimize Thunderbird on the tray on Gnome 50? I use the AppIndicator extension.