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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...
UT2004 (Atari DVD Release Version)
Install from the DVD. Navigate to the location the DVD was mounted at and run: sudo sh ./linux-in...
Graphics Cards
Drivers for hardware accelerated desktop rendering, improving performance and fidelity. The Linux...
Firefox
Install Firefox via these packages (adjust for your desired locale): pacman -S firefox firefox-i1...
KDE Plasma
Base KDE Plasma packages for the full Plasma experience. Bundle with other packages to prevent pa...
Fonts in GNOME Flatpak apps are not anti-aliased on non-GTK desktops
Under Wayland GNOME apps get their anti-aliasing settings from XDG Portals. To make fonts look ni...
Sound
For audio handling on Linux, PipeWire is the currently recommended framework. PipeWire is a serve...
Time Zone & Locale
Time zone Create a symbolic link to your local time zone at /etc/localtime and sync the time with...
Encrypt non-root devices (LUKS)
If you have more than one hard disk that you need to encrypt (e.g. SSD as main disk, HDD as data ...
LUKS on LVM (encrypted, cached, Desktop)
LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a sta...
LVM on LUKS (encrypted, Laptop)
LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a sta...
LVM + dm-cache (unencrypted)
LVM dm-cache is a feature of the Linux device mapper, which uses a fast storage device to boost d...
Bluetooth
Install the following packages to enable Bluetooth functionality and the necessary tools to contr...
Understanding Linux file systems
Linux supports a number of different file systems with different sets of features and intended us...
Extra: Installing via SSH
WARNING: Only do this in a trustworthy network environment, e.g. at home, to prevent the possibil...
Preparations
INFO: This is a shortened version of the Arch Wiki installation guide. Download an ISO from the A...
DOSBox
Install DOSBox Staging for a more enhanced DOS gaming experience: yay -S dosbox-staging General ...
sudo
sudo is the standard tool for gaining temporary system administrator privileges on Linux to perfo...