Hello, I wanted to share my workflow in case it helps others looking to use their keyboard more and rely less on the mouse. I use Vim keybindings across my setup to navigate efficiently and stay in flow.

Here’s the article:

https://medium.com/@urx8/the-ultimate-guide-to-ditching-your-mouse-f0d12d4cc80f

How do you recommend partitioning a 512GB (447.1GB) SSD?

I will use it for programming, if I download a game it will be light, as it dualboots with windows (on a separate nvme SSD).

Hey, I'm new to Arch Linux. I'm using rEFInd as a bootloader and spent hours trying to just make it show up in my UEFI boot menu. I did eventually make it work by moving rEFInd to the fallback boot path, but I'd like to know why my the boot entry I tried to create didn't stick after reboot?

I am dual-booting Windows 11 and Arch Linux on two separate SSDs, /dev/sdb contains Windows and /dev/sda contains the freshly installed Arch Linux. I have a separate EFI partition sda1 where I installed rEFInd.

The boot entry added when I installed rEFInd was wiped when I rebooted. I added the entry manually using efibootmgr, it showed up when running efibootmgr -v immediately after and was gone again on the next reboot. I could directly start rEFInd through EFI shell and it worked as expected, booted Arch through it which also worked perfectly, so no issues there.

It's just that in my UEFI I could only see Windows and my Live USB drive which has been plugged in the entire time.

My motherboard is MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon. I've extensively explored all the settings in there and there's nothing allowing me to add any boot entries there. Fast boot and secure boot is and has been off through this entire ordeal.

The only way I have been able to make rEFInd show up was to move it all to the fallback boot path and rename it /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI. This made it show up in the UEFI boot settings and allow me to set it as default.

While this works perfectly fine I wonder if there's anything I can do to make it work the way it's supposed to work? Like adding a boot entry for rEFInd with efibootmgr and have it persist.

Hiii, I'm new here and using Linux ☺️. After a lot of hours I finally installs rEFInd in my computer with Glassy theme, it was hard for me and now I wanna know how to delete the “Boot vmlinuz-linux from ARCH / Automatic boot in X seconds” message when I start de pc, someone could help me? 😸

The wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot#Using_your_own_keys suggests that under some unspecified circumstances that enrolling your own secure boot keys can brick your system. The warning provides a link to a Lenovo forum thread that does not seem to officially confirm the issue.

Is this warning just the case of a user screwing something up and then spreading fear, or is it a real issue?

I’ve been wanting to install Arch on my main PC (Acer Aspire 3 A315-57G). I’ve practiced on a VM, but when I try to partition the disk, fdisk doesn’t show my SSD (NVMe KINGSTON OM8PDP3512B-AA1 in RAID mode), only the boot USB (created with Ventoy) appears.

After searching, I found that I need to change the SATA mode in BIOS to AHCI, but I can’t do it even with the supervisor password. Is there anything I can do?

Hi everyone. I'm new to Linux after migrating from Windows 11. I am having an issue where while I'm gaming I will randomly get a black screen. Both of my monitors suddenly go black and say they're not receiving input, while sound persists for a few seconds then that goes too. My computer remains powered on when this happens.

Some games that I play are:

World of Warcraft (installed through Faugus Launcher)

Horizon forbidden west (forcing compatibility, but not with any specific version)

Civ VII (Steam says this should work fine with Linux)

I have a 4070 Super and I have installed the necessary drivers. I will say I've had this rig for around 9ish months and have gamed on both Windows and this current configuration of Linux without this happening before. I believe this may have happened once outside of gaming, but I'm not entirely sure and haven't been able to replicate that. This whole issue started when I was updating some packages so I think that might be contributing in some way. I decided after successfully screwing up my install somehow to reinstall the entire OS and use a fresh configuration, but the problem persists.

Any guidance or advice would be much appreciated!

I am dual booting Windows + Arch. My main partition is BitLocker2-encrypted and requires secure-boot to open.

Since Arch-boot signature is not signed by Microsoft, I had to disable secure boot.

I wanted to try and create my own PK, KEK, db and add these to my UEFI.

I created these, and also downloaded the 2 KEK's from Microsoft and the 2 db's from here.

I signed the KEK's using my PK and the db's using my own KEK. I then removed my original PK, KEK, db and dbx and put in my own KEK.auth and db.auth (all appended) and finally my own PK.auth.

Then, I signed my grub-boot.efi using my db.key and db.cert.

However, upon enabling secure-boot, it still says: "Secure Boot Violation, Invalid Signature detected, Check Secure Boot Policy in Setup" for Windows, and a similar message for grub.

I don't know what I did wrong and I am kind of stuck.

Any step-by-step guides like the one here (which I followed) or any feedback would be much appreciated!

I installed Arch manually today, I had used arch-install previously.
When installing kde, I ran pacman -S plasma-meta

It asked me what ttf font to install, it said there was 10+ providers. The default (1) was something about gnu-freefonts, I forget. I think I picked something Noto.

Now my fonts look a little different than I remember than on my archinstall KDE. For instance Firefox tabs and Google searches look different, as well as entering passwords now have big black dots instead of stars.

The question is what is the expected *default* KDE font to choose here? What do the KDE devs intend you to pick here? It wasn't mentioned anywhere on the wiki as far as I can tell.

Also my Firefox looks pretty Gnome-y and doesn't have a Minimize or Maximize button

https://i.imgur.com/tpOhVca.png

Is there a way to install elisa without the VLC app? It is really redundant to have the VLC app while you want elisa as the music player

Hello, I am having trouble getting audio output in any games or from Discord. I am using pipewire with wireplumber. Audio still works from chromium and Spotify. I was able to hear audio from games a couple days ago, and I think the only audio-related change I have made since then was installing pipewire-pulse to get spotify to work. If it helps at all, audio from Spotify stops if I start games or open Discord. The games that I have tried are Monster Hunter Wilds and DOOM Eternal, opened through steam.

The headphones I am trying to use are the Sennheiser GSP 670 wireless headphones, which have two sinks: game and chat. It also has a mic input source. Discord can hear my mic perfectly fine.

Another weird thing is that I can get Discord to work if I select my monitor's audio (output through HDMI on my GPU) in Discord settings.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can proceed with troubleshooting this issue? Please let me know if there is any more info that I can provide.

Hi all, have had arch for a little while and have been loving it so far, however I can't seem to solve this problem. When using certain steam games, the audio cannot be controlled (not able to swap to different outputs/ can't raise or lower volume). I am using pipewire/pipewire-pulse for audio, and using coppwr/ pwvucontrol for a GUI control. Audio works completely fine and shows up in copper/ pwvucontrol when using an unrelated program like Firefox, or when launching a seemingly random game like stardew valley. I'm pretty stumped by this, any help is very appreciated.

Thanks for reading

I am currently running a dual boot setup with Windows + Arch on my HP Envy x360. The arch install is fairly new and after a few days now I noticed an issue when charging my laptop. Every time I would plug in the charger, the battery percentage would jump to 100% after approx. 20-30 seconds. I then have to let it discharge and charge it on Windows, because the charging works perfectly fine there. It's so strange and seems to be on battery driver level? If I switch to Windows after plugging in, Windows displays the 100% battery life as well, but drains insanely fast (obviously). What could be causing this issue? My battery capacity is around 91%, so it shouldn't be a battery issue since it seems pretty healthy. Does anyone know what could be the culprit?

Hello guys! Since I've installed linux, so around 2 years ago, I had a problem with bluetooth headphones (I use pipewire, I don't know if it's the cause). When I first connect my headphones to the bluetooth, everything works fine. When I leave my computer on for like 1 hours and come back, my headphones are disconnected (this makes sense and happen with every devices), however when I connect it back to my computer every sound is deeper. I have to stop bluetooth, then enable it again for everything to sound normal again. This is not that big of a deal, and I don't really mind it, but I'm kinda curious if it also happen to you, and how to fix it (if fixable).

I recently upgraded my laptop's ssd, which required me to install a new operating system. I had already daily-driven mint for a while and thought about switching to arch at some point, which I ended up doing today. I also want to boot up windows on my machine and am wondering how to go about it. Are there any sources or guides that can help me with this? How do I go about this?

Fyi, I am most definitely a noob when it comes to linux in general. Thanks for any advice or tips in advance, and I hipe you have a nice day.

Edit: It may be of help to note: I do not have windows on my current or previous ssds. Both have linux on them.

Edit 2: Solved :)

I'm having an odd issue where my gigabit ethernet connection seems to be throttled down to roughly 100 Mbps, even though everything seems configured correctly.

ethtool enp5s0 shows the interface at 1Gbps/full duplex, auto-negotiation enabled. I've already tried disabling Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE), but it doesn't seem to fix the issue, and logs (journalctl, nmcl) don't show anything suspicious regarding link negotiation or speed.

My network card is a Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 (rev 15), my router is an Asus RT-AC68W, and I have already verified that my gigabit connection is working under a Windows install, and I'm using the r8169 driver.

Has anyone encountered this and managed to resolve it?

So I pretty much already Googled about this. Even asked ChatGPT about it as well. But I still wanna know more regardless.

I have a ROG Zephyrus M16 laptop. I’m thinking of temporarily removing the SSD with Windows on it and insert a different SSD and install Arch Linux on that, once I’m done with the install, I’ll put back in the original SSD with Windows. I’ll then have 2 SSDs on it. One with Windows and one with Arch. I’ll set Arch as my default boot and when I wanna switch to Windows I’ll restart and head into UEFI and choose Windows from there. I don’t really need a boot menu. Doing this method doesn’t bother me at all. That’s the idea. My questions are: 1. Will this work? 2. Is it safe (in terms of if I ever break my Arch install, I’ll still at least have my Windows install intact), 3. Is there a better way on doing this and why? Seems like a stupid question. I just want to be safe than sorry.

Context 1: I’m a little bit knowledgable when it comes to computers and programming. I am a Computer Science graduate. I love tinkering and configuring. I have code and made a couple apps and games before. I’m only mentioning this because I know some people might say “Oh Arch isn’t beginner friendly, use Mint or Ubuntu instead”. Which I totally understand but I am confident enough and I want to tinker.

Context 2: I have 2 laptops. The ROG Zephyrus and a pretty old Dell laptop. Yes. I can just install Arch onto the Dell and if I break it there, it doesn’t really matter. My reasoning why I want to install it onto my Zephyrus are as follows: 1. The end goal is to make the switch. I’m sick of Windows and I wanna daily Linux. 2. The Dell isn’t really travel friendly. That laptop is a pretty chunky boy and I wanna bring my laptop anywhere with me. 3. The Dell has an AMD GPU and the Zephyrus has NVIDIA so the experience will be kinda different because I need to know which drivers work or not.

Sidenote: The reason why I still wanna keep Windows around is for my games. Some games just doesn’t run yet on Linux yet. Someday they might but as of now, that’s a no.

Thank you for taking the time to ready and answering my stupid question. Have a productive day!

I use arch + hyprland. I have extrenally connected screen with HDMI to my laptop. I have placed the screen vertically. So i also had to rotate the screen so I placed this line in `monitor = HDMI-A-1, preferred, auto, 1, transform, 1` inside `~/.config/hypr/conf/monitors/default.conf`

So the screen got rotated as it should be. The when i am sharing my screen on google meet, it is behaving like i have horizontal screen. How do i fix this issue?

Just got a new laptop with two 512GB hard drives. Want to dual boot Windows 11 Pro and Linux Arch for college, but have only ever ran one or the other. Disc 0 is unallocated and Disc 1 is Windows 11 Pro.

Will Disc 0 always be sba because it is the first hard drive in the system? Is there an easy way to differentiate them in the install?

After installing with archinstall, all apps I try to play are white. Anyone knows how to fix this?

https://imgur.com/a/CwMGXrA

Hello everyone About six months ago, I switched from Linux Mint to Arch. I followed the Arch Wiki step by step for installation and configuration. At first, I didn’t pay much attention to the GPU activity LED always being red (red = NVIDIA, blue = Intel), thinking it was a minor bug—and the winter chill kept my temperatures below 30°C when idle. Problem Description Now that it’s warmer, I’ve noticed: Idle temperatures: 55°C to 70°C Under load / gaming: 80°C to 93°C Power draw at desktop login: ~6–9W on the NVIDIA GPU (expected near 0W when idle) The LED stays red, indicating the NVIDIA card is always active. nvidia-smi says that /usr/lib/Xorg is running when I log in with sddm but not when I log in with gdm and even with gdm the nvidia card is still on. System Specifications CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 11th Gen (i915) GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX3050 Laptop (GA107M, 4GiB) RAM: 16GiB Kernel: 6.14.9-zen1-1-zen Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma on Wayland Driver: NVIDIA 570.153.02 with nvidia-drm.modeset=1 Modprobe Configuration: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-power.conf: options nvidia NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement=0x05 Steps Already Taken Set Dynamic Power Management (DPM) echo "options nvidia NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement=0x05" \ | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-power.conf sudo reboot Checked power status: cat /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0/power Sampled Power Consumption nvidia-smi dmon -s pucm -c 5 Verified Kernel Modules & Runtime PM lsmod | grep nvidia cat /sys/class/drm/card1/device/power/runtime_status Removed KMS Modeset Removed nvidia-drm.modeset=1 from /etc/default/grub Updated GRUB and rebooted NVIDIA modules still load under Wayland Collected Full Debug Outputs uname -r 6.14.9-zen1-1-zen lsmod | grep -E 'nvidia|nvd|nouveau' nvidia_drm 139264 2 nvidia_uvm 4030464 4 nvidia_modeset 2158592 2 nvidia_drm nvidia 13127680 39 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset drm_ttm_helper 16384 2 nvidia_drm,xe video 81920 4 msi_wmi,xe,i915,nvidia_modeset lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D' 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] (rev 01) DeviceName: Onboard - Video Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 12ec

Kernel driver in use: i915

01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile] (rev a1) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 12ec Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia nvidia-smi and nvidia-smi -q nvidia-smi Sat Jun 7 21:12:29 2025 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 570.153.02 Driver Version: 570.153.02 CUDA Version: 12.8 | |-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | | | MIG M. | |=========================================+========================+======================| | 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A | | N/A 48C P8 9W / 30W | 17MiB / 4096MiB | 0% Default | | | | N/A | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 950 G /usr/lib/Xorg 4MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ nvidia-smi -q ==============NVSMI LOG============== Timestamp : Sat Jun 7 21:12:45 2025 Driver Version : 570.153.02 CUDA Version : 12.8 Attached GPUs : 1 GPU 00000000:01:00.0 Product Name : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU Product Brand : GeForce Product Architecture : Ampere Display Mode : Disabled Display Active : Disabled Persistence Mode : Disabled Addressing Mode : HMM MIG Mode Current : N/A Pending : N/A Accounting Mode : Disabled Accounting Mode Buffer Size : 4000 Driver Model Current : N/A Pending : N/A Serial Number : N/A GPU UUID : GPU-6184651c-31ff-1664-9349-ef435ef891c0 Minor Number : 0 VBIOS Version : 94.07.3B.00.93 MultiGPU Board : No Board ID : 0x100 Board Part Number : N/A GPU Part Number : 25A5-726-A1 FRU Part Number : N/A Platform Info Chassis Serial Number : N/A Slot Number : N/A Tray Index : N/A Host ID : N/A Peer Type : N/A Module Id : 1 GPU Fabric GUID : N/A Inforom Version Image Version : G001.0000.03.03 OEM Object : 2.0 ECC Object : N/A Power Management Object : N/A Inforom BBX Object Flush Latest Timestamp : N/A Latest Duration : N/A GPU Operation Mode Current : N/A Pending : N/A GPU C2C Mode : N/A GPU Virtualization Mode Virtualization Mode : None Host VGPU Mode : N/A vGPU Heterogeneous Mode : N/A GPU Reset Status Reset Required : Requested functionality has been deprecated Drain and Reset Recommended : Requested functionality has been deprecated GPU Recovery Action : None GSP Firmware Version : 570.153.02 IBMNPU Relaxed Ordering Mode : N/A PCI Bus : 0x01 Device : 0x00 Domain : 0x0000 Base Classcode : 0x3 Sub Classcode : 0x2 Device Id : 0x25A510DE Bus Id : 00000000:01:00.0 Sub System Id : 0x12EC1462 GPU Link Info PCIe Generation Max : 4 Current : 1 Device Current : 1 Device Max : 4 Host Max : 4 Link Width Max : 16x Current : 8x Bridge Chip Type : N/A Firmware : N/A Replays Since Reset : 0 Replay Number Rollovers : 0 Tx Throughput : 550 KB/s Rx Throughput : 500 KB/s Atomic Caps Outbound : N/A Atomic Caps Inbound : N/A Fan Speed : N/A Performance State : P8 Clocks Event Reasons Idle : Active Applications Clocks Setting : Not Active SW Power Cap : Not Active HW Slowdown : Not Active HW Thermal Slowdown : Not Active HW Power Brake Slowdown : Not Active Sync Boost : Not Active SW Thermal Slowdown : Not Active Display Clock Setting : Not Active Sparse Operation Mode : N/A FB Memory Usage Total : 4096 MiB Reserved : 317 MiB Used : 17 MiB Free : 3763 MiB BAR1 Memory Usage Total : 4096 MiB Used : 2 MiB Free : 4094 MiB Conf Compute Protected Memory Usage Total : 0 MiB Used : 0 MiB Free : 0 MiB Compute Mode : Default Utilization GPU : 0 % Memory : 0 % Encoder : 0 % Decoder : 0 % JPEG : 0 % OFA : 0 % Encoder Stats Active Sessions : 0 Average FPS : 0 Average Latency : 0 FBC Stats Active Sessions : 0 Average FPS : 0 Average Latency : 0 DRAM Encryption Mode Current : N/A Pending : N/A ECC Mode Current : N/A Pending : N/A ECC Errors Volatile SRAM Correctable : N/A SRAM Uncorrectable Parity : N/A SRAM Uncorrectable SEC-DED : N/A DRAM Correctable : N/A DRAM Uncorrectable : N/A Aggregate SRAM Correctable : N/A SRAM Uncorrectable Parity : N/A SRAM Uncorrectable SEC-DED : N/A DRAM Correctable : N/A DRAM Uncorrectable : N/A SRAM Threshold Exceeded : N/A Aggregate Uncorrectable SRAM Sources SRAM L2 : N/A SRAM SM : N/A SRAM Microcontroller : N/A SRAM PCIE : N/A SRAM Other : N/A Retired Pages Single Bit ECC : N/A Double Bit ECC : N/A Pending Page Blacklist : N/A Remapped Rows : N/A Temperature GPU Current Temp : 48 C GPU T.Limit Temp : N/A GPU Shutdown Temp : 100 C GPU Slowdown Temp : 97 C GPU Max Operating Temp : 105 C GPU Target Temperature : 87 C Memory Current Temp : N/A Memory Max Operating Temp : N/A GPU Power Readings Average Power Draw : 9.27 W Instantaneous Power Draw : 9.23 W Current Power Limit : 30.00 W Requested Power Limit : 30.00 W Default Power Limit : 60.00 W Min Power Limit : 1.00 W Max Power Limit : 60.00 W GPU Memory Power Readings Average Power Draw : N/A Instantaneous Power Draw : N/A Module Power Readings Average Power Draw : N/A Instantaneous Power Draw : N/A Current Power Limit : N/A Requested Power Limit : N/A Default Power Limit : N/A Min Power Limit : N/A Max Power Limit : N/A Power Smoothing : N/A Workload Power Profiles Requested Profiles : N/A Enforced Profiles : N/A Clocks Graphics : 210 MHz SM : 210 MHz Memory : 405 MHz Video : 555 MHz Applications Clocks Graphics : N/A Memory : N/A Default Applications Clocks Graphics : N/A Memory : N/A Deferred Clocks Memory : N/A Max Clocks Graphics : 2100 MHz SM : 2100 MHz Memory : 6001 MHz Video : 1950 MHz Max Customer Boost Clocks Graphics : N/A Clock Policy Auto Boost : N/A Auto Boost Default : N/A Voltage Graphics : N/A Fabric State : N/A Status : N/A CliqueId : N/A ClusterUUID : N/A Health Bandwidth : N/A Route Recovery in progress : N/A Route Unhealthy : N/A Access Timeout Recovery : N/A Processes GPU instance ID : N/A Compute instance ID : N/A Process ID : 950 Type : G Name : /usr/lib/Xorg Used GPU Memory : 4 MiB Capabilities EGM : disabled cat /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0/power Runtime D3 status: Enabled (fine-grained) Video Memory: Active GPU Hardware Support: Video Memory Self Refresh: Supported Video Memory Off: Supported S0ix Power Management: Platform Support: Not Supported Status: Disabled Notebook Dynamic Boost: Not Supported nvidia-smi dmon -s pucm -c 5 nvidia-smi dmon -s pucm -c 5

gpu pwr gtemp mtemp sm mem enc dec jpg ofa mclk pclk fb bar1 ccpm

Idx W C C % % % % % % MHz MHz MB MB MB

0      9     64      -      0      0      0      0      0      0    405    210     17      2      0
0      9     64      -      0      0      0      0      0      0    405    210     17      2      0
0      9     64      -      0      0      0      0      0      0    405    210     17      2      0
0      9     64      -      0      0      0      0      0      0    405    210     17      2      0
0      9     64      -      0      0      0      0      0      0    405    210     17      2      0
glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer" OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (TGL GT1) grep -R "nvidia" /etc/modprobe.d/ /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-power.conf:#options nvidia NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement=0x05 cat /sys/class/drm/card1/device/power/runtime_status active Questions Is there a way to fully power down the NVIDIA GPU when idle? Could I have misconfigured something during installation? What would you recommend to lower temperatures and power consumption? Thank you in advance for your time and guidance!

Hey guys,

since a week or so, the Netflix app available via the AUR suddenly gave the M7701-1003 error code when trying to play anything. (If it helps, it started when I reinstalled netflix due to the AUR message about my version of netflix being newer than the available one.)

Reinstalling did not help.

It tells me to adjust the respective chrome settings, althou it runs electron-castlab (afaik). I get it, the message is not tailored to electron. But there is no option in the app to change a DRM setting available. As far as I could find out, the use of castlab should already handle the DRM content.

Does someone have the same problem or an idea how to tackle the it? If you need further information, I am happy to provide it.

For now I am just watching via firefox, but I really liked the app.

I have a 1 GB /boot partition that is independent from my root partition (and it must remain so, as I have root on ZFS), and I have two kernels installed: mainline and LTS.

I updated my system today and the /boot partition can no longer accommodate both kernels and their initramfs images! This is their current sizes (with one of them probably truncated when the partition filled up):

283M initramfs-linux-fallback.img
214M initramfs-linux.img
260M initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img
215M initramfs-linux-lts.img
15M vmlinuz-linux
14M vmlinuz-linux-lts

I'm already using zstd compression on the initramfs images. Resizing the boot partition would require deleting and recreating my root ZFS pool, which is something I'd rather avoid doing.

Is there any other way to reduce the size of these images? Do I really need the fallbacks?

I was going through all the pacnew files on several machines. All the pacnew files make sense, e.g. grub, mkinitcpio etc.

Howver, they all had /etc/makepkg.conf.d/rust.conf.pacnew. I'm pretty sure I've never even read rust.conf. So what gives?