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Universial 2nd Factor (U2F)
Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) is an open standard that strengthens and simplifies two-factor authent...
GNOME
Base GNOME packages for the full GNOME experience. Bundle with other packages to prevent package ...
AUR Helper
An AUR helper is a tool that automates the process of installing packages from the Arch User Repo...
Base System
Setting up mirrors The Arch installation environment comes with reflector, a tool that generates ...
Timeshift
IMPORTANT: Timeshift is not a backup tool! It only creates local snapshots of the system to roll ...
Discord
Discord is a proprietary, cross-platform, all-in-one voice and text chat application. Install Dis...
GNOME Flatpaks
Core apps Name ID Description Calculator org.gnome.Calculator Perform arithmetic, scientif...
Secure Boot
Secure Boot is a security feature found in the UEFI standard, designed to add a layer of protecti...
Fonts
For most desktop environments, a sufficient number of fonts is installed as dependencies. However...
initramfs
The initramfs contains all the necessary programs and config files needed to bring up the machine...
Boot Loader
systemd-boot systemd comes with systemd-boot already, so no additional packages need to be instal...
Singular file system (LUKS, encrypted)
LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a sta...
Singular file system
The simplest, most basic partitioning scheme in any Linux operating system consists of 3 partitio...
Trusted Platform Module
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is an international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor, which is...
Booting the installation medium
ATTENTION: The Arch Linux installation medium does not support Secure Boot. You will have to disa...
ZFS: the file system to end all file systems
ZFS (Zettabyte File System) is a high-performance, advanced file system originally developed by S...
Ext4: the reliable all-rounder
Ext4 (Fourth Extended File System) is a high-performance, journaling file system widely used in L...
XFS: the workhorse
XFS is a high-performance journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, Inc. for their IRIX...
Btrfs: modern and feature-packed
Btrfs (B-tree File System) is a modern, copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux designed to add...
Media Management
Rename photos based on EXIF metadata exiftool -d '%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S.%%e' '-filename<EXIF:DateTime...