Samsung N150 Plus

Install Arch Linux on an old Samsung N150 Plus netbook.

Characteristics

• CPU: Intel® Atom™ N455 @ 1.66 GHz
• Memory: 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM
• Hard Drive: 250 GB Serial ATA-150

Troubleshootings

• GRUB hangs
• Hyprland crashes

Arch Linux installation

See Arch Linux

Bootloader

Install SYSLINUX since GRUB does not work:

pacman -Sy syslinux
syslinux-install_update -i -a -m

Compositor

Install weston or sway since hyprland crashes:

pacman -Sy weston sway ttf-dejavu

Enable pipewire:

systemctl --user enable --now pipewire