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Secure Boot

Arch Linux Installation

Secure Boot Secure Boot is a UEFI security feature designed to protect the pre-boot environment f...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Sebin

initramfs

Arch Linux Installation

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

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Boot Loader

Arch Linux Installation

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

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AUR Helper

Arch Linux Installation

An AUR helper is a tool that automates the process of installing packages from the Arch User Repo...

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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...

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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 ...

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Trusted Platform Module

Arch Linux Hardware

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

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Network

Arch Linux Installation

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

Updated 1 month ago by Sebin

KDE Plasma

Arch Linux Desktop Environemt

KDE Plasma is a modern, highly customizable desktop environment that strikes a rare balance in th...

Updated 1 month ago by Sebin

Graphics Cards

Arch Linux Hardware

Most graphical user interfaces these days are hardware accelerated, so the appropriate graphics d...

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Fingerpint Reader

Arch Linux Hardware

Linux can utilize fringerprint readers through fprintd. It allows the Pluggable Authentication M...

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Node.js (nvm)

Arch Linux Software

Use the Node Version Manager ( nvm) to install Node.js into your current user's path and switch N...

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Spell checking

Arch Linux Software

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

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Printing

Arch Linux Hardware

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

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Base System

Arch Linux Installation

Setting up mirrors The Arch installation environment comes with reflector, a tool that generates...

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zram

Arch Linux Installation

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

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zsh configuration

Arch Linux Customization & Tweaks

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

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Time Zone & Locale

Arch Linux Installation

Time zone Use timedatectl to check which time zone your system is currently set to: ...

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Understanding Linux file systems

Arch Linux Partitioning

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

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Getting Started

OpenTTD

Welcome to OpenTTD! OpenTTD is an open source reimplementation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe by Chri...

Updated 4 months ago by Sebin