Arch Linux

While I'm trying to get Encrypted /boot and a detached LUKS header on USB to work,
I had a couple of questions come to mind:

~~1. Does the backup USB key need to be updated?~~
~~2. If so, then how would someone keep all backups up to date?~~

I probably asked a dumb question but if anyone can help guide me through the steps I'd really appreciate you!🤗🌻

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/43472689

For context:
I've encrypted the swap partition with:

cryptsetup -v luksFormat /dev/${DEVICE}
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/${DEVICE} swap

And what I want is for the user to be able to enter their password only once to decrypt their root partition which would contain a keyfile to then decrypt their swap partition.

Does anyone know if this is possible?
Just thought I'd ask to see if anyone's done this already

Links:

• Dm-crypt Unlocking - With a keyfile embedded in the initramfs
• Dm-crypt - Automated unlocking and mounting

Installed Arch this weekend. My transition is now complete :P

I have 2 monitors. I updated last week, some of the KDE windows crash sometimes no big deal maybe it will get fixed. So I updated today hoping the bug would get fixed. Now my second monitor glitches out and it's really annoying. I'm using amd graphics with mesa. I already tried downgrading mesa, made no difference

I'm sure I'm the only arch user on the planet with this issue as usual but is anyone else having this issue?

Update: downgrading to kernel 6.7.9 fixed it. For now.

Since the KDE 6 update, my lock screen crashes my pc once a day. Ctrl + alt + function key does nothing. The cinnamon package on Arch is too messed up out of the box and I hate every other desktop environment so I can't switch to something else. Unity is trash. Gnome is unusable without a taskbar and the taskbar addon is rarely up to date. Lxde is good on old pcs but it doesn't have a task menu search bar.

It just blows my mind how every other time arch updates, at least 1 thing gets fucked up, no one else ever has the same problem and so there's never a fix besides reinstalling. Arch is not a distro that can be purged and reinstalled efficiently, this isn't Ubuntu

Does updating more often make things break more often? Or does updating less often make things more likely to break when you do finally update? Or do things randomly break regardless and there's not a damn thing you can do to prevent it either way?

If anyone else is having problems with the latest updates making their ax200 wifi speed capped at 3.4mb/s and has found a fix that doesn't involve buying new hardware or reinstalling the os, I would love to hear it.

I would like to think installing new updates will eventually fix the problem but I've never seen updates fix anything Iike that ever, not even once.