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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...
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...
UT2004 (Atari DVD Release Version)
Install from the DVD. Navigate to the location the DVD was mounted at and run: sudo sh ./linux-in...
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...
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...