Arch Linux

INFO: This is a shortened version of the Arch Wiki installation guide. Download an ISO from the A...

ATTENTION: The Arch Linux installation medium does not support Secure Boot. You will have to disa...

WARNING: Only do this in a trustworthy network environment, e.g. at home, to prevent the possibil...

Linux supports a number of different file systems with different sets of features and intended us...

The simplest, most basic partitioning scheme in any Linux operating system consists of 3 partitio...

LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a sta...

If you have more than one hard disk that you need to encrypt (e.g. SSD as main disk, HDD as data ...

LVM dm-cache is a feature of the Linux device mapper, which uses a fast storage device to boost d...

LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a sta...

LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a sta...

The absolute minimum set of packages required to install Arch Linux onto a machine is as follows:...

Time zone Create a symbolic link to your local time zone at /etc/localtime and sync the time with...

Set up the default host name of the machine as well as localhost: NOTE: sebin-desktop is used as ...

Set the password for the root user: passwd This password schould differ from the regular user pa...

sudo is the standard tool for gaining temporary system administrator privileges on Linux to perfo...

zsh is a modern shell with lots of customizability and features. Install the following packages: ...

It is advised to add a regular user account for day to day usage. Add a new user, create a home d...

An AUR helper is a tool that simplifies the process of procuring extra packages from the Arch Use...

The initramfs contains all the necessary programs and config files needed to bring up the machine...

The zram kernel module provides a compressed block device in RAM. If you use it as swap device, t...

Secure Boot is a security feature found in the UEFI standard, designed to add a layer of protecti...

systemd-boot systemd comes with systemd-boot already, so no additional packages need to be instal...

Drivers for hardware accelerated desktop rendering, improving performance and fidelity. The Linux...

For audio handling on Linux, PipeWire is the currently recommended framework. PipeWire is a serve...

Install the following packages to enable Bluetooth functionality and the necessary tools to contr...

Install the following packages for printer support: pacman -S cups logrotate system-config-printe...

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is an international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor, which is...

Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) is an open standard that strengthens and simplifies two-factor authent...

Base GNOME packages for the full GNOME experience. Bundle with other packages to prevent package ...

Base KDE Plasma packages for the full Plasma experience. Bundle with other packages to prevent pa...

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library used by Firefox, Thunderbird, Chro...

Emoji Fonts pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji Asian Language Fonts pacman -S noto-fonts-cjk adobe-sourc...

polkit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivile...

Install Firefox via these packages (adjust for your desired locale): pacman -S firefox firefox-i1...

Install Google Chrome from AUR: yay -S google-chrome Tweaks To enable hardware accelerated video...

Apostrophe is a simple and distraction-free Markdown editor with a minimalistic interface, live p...

Discord is a proprietary, cross-platform, all-in-one voice and text chat application. Install Dis...

Playback In order play Blu-Rays install the following packages: sudo pacman -S libbluray libaacs ...

Use the Node Version Manager (nvm) to install Node.js into your current user's path and switch No...

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a hypervisor built into the Linux kernel. Install libvirt ...

Help scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and SARS-CoV-2 by simply running...

Timeshift is a backup and restore tool utilizing either rsync or btrfs snapshots. Installation WA...

Install snapper pacman -S snapper snap-pac Generate root config snapper -c root create-config / ...

Install Wine to play (almost) any Windows game on Linux. For a compatibility list refer to Proton...

The popular game distribution platform and library management client from Valve. NOTE: activate t...

Install DOSBox Staging for a more enhanced DOS gaming experience: yay -S dosbox-staging General ...

Dabble in some adventure games of yore with ScummVM: pacman -S scummvm

A legitimate copy of the game is required to play, either bought from Steam GOG.com...

A legitimate copy of the game is required to play, either bought from GOG.com a ret...

A legitimate copy of the game is required to play, either bought from Steam GOG.com...

Legitimate copies of the games are required to play, either bought from GOG.com ...

The official Minecraft Launcher package maintained by Microsoft: yay -S minecraft-launcher

Widescreen hack Edit SC3U.exe with a hex editor and search for the following byte sequence: 8b 4c...

Install from the DVD. Navigate to the location the DVD was mounted at and run: sudo sh ./linux-in...

dbus-broker is a drop-in replacement for the libdbus reference implementation, which aims "to pro...

Akava https://akava-design.github.io/ yay -S breeze-blurred-git akava-kde-git akava-konsole-git k...

CAUTION: The developer of Latte announced his retirement from maintining the project. Dock based ...

Additional packages one might find useful to have installed on their system File System Utilities...

zsh configuration as provided on a standard Manjaro install with some additions General settings...

Plymouth replaces boot messages with a pretty splash screen. Installation yay -S plymouth ttf-dej...

Backup Folders in /home .dosbox (DOSBox configs) .local/bin (local scripts) .mozilla (Firef...

Display server To utilize Wayland for Qt-based applications install the qt5-wayland and qt6-wayla...

Orphans can accumulate as packages are removed via pacman -R instead of pacman -Rs, makedepends o...

After a firmware upgrade the firmware settings might get reset to their default values, including...

During initrd generation mkinitcpio might output the following messages: ==> Starting build: '6.2...

After a new minor release of Python (e.g. 3.9 -> 3.10) some Python packages from the AUR might st...

Sometimes Discover fails to delete the lockfile for PackageKit. In this case, delete the lockfile...

Under Wayland GNOME apps get their anti-aliasing settings from XDG Portals. To make fonts look ni...