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Secure Boot

Arch Linux Installation

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

Updated 2 months ago by Sebin

Media Management

exiftool

Rename photos based on EXIF metadata exiftool -d '%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S.%%e' '-filename<EXIF:DateTime...

Updated 5 months ago by Sebin

UT2004 (Atari DVD Release Version)

Arch Linux Games

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

Updated 8 months ago by Sebin

Wine

Arch Linux Games

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

Updated 8 months ago by Sebin

Sim City 3000

Arch Linux Games

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

Updated 8 months ago by Sebin

Graphics Cards

Arch Linux Hardware

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

Updated 8 months ago by Sebin

Firefox

Arch Linux Software

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

KDE Plasma

Arch Linux Desktop Environemt

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

Fonts in GNOME Flatpak apps are not anti-aliased on non-GTK desktops

Arch Linux Troubleshooting

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

Boot Loader

Arch Linux Installation

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

initramfs

Arch Linux Installation

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

Sound

Arch Linux Hardware

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

Network

Arch Linux Installation

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

Time Zone & Locale

Arch Linux Installation

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

Base System

Arch Linux Installation

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

Encrypt non-root devices (LUKS)

Arch Linux Partitioning

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

LUKS on LVM (encrypted, cached, Desktop)

Arch Linux Partitioning

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

LVM on LUKS (encrypted, Laptop)

Arch Linux Partitioning

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

LVM + dm-cache (unencrypted)

Arch Linux Partitioning

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin

Singular file system (LUKS, encrypted)

Arch Linux Partitioning

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

Updated 9 months ago by Sebin