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Arch linux

Arch is just a better distro, but using arch doesnt instantly - make you a better linux user. Saying "I am a arch user btw" is still - fun and annoys people so I keep saying it reguardless.
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- Warning: This is a ever changing page due to the fact I havent - been daily driving arch for long as of writing this and is - uncompletish.

- Installing arch -
- After installing -
- Nvidia drivers -
- Tricks -

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Installing arch

A lot of arch users will get pissed as fuck at me but its ok - to use arch install. I personally prefer manually installing - arch and wouldnt want to do it any other way so I dont use it, btw - (:
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- The offical arch installation guide and other - resources on the arch wiki is a great way to install arch though I - also like to use distro - tubes arch installation guide alongside the resources. Some arch - users may be pissed I dare tell people to go watch a youtube video. - I am sure most arch installation guides on youtube suck but DT's - video is killer. Plus its not a replacement for the wiki, its just - to help follow it a bit easier and act as a good jumping off - point.
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- Some things I gotta add is for me DT's video I linked doesnt work - 100 percent. When setting up grub it cant find the efi directory. - You gotta use a switch to show that command that fails the efi - directory. I forgor the switch and I am too lazy to look it up but - you can find it if the --help flag. Also to dual boot - with nasty nasty MS Windows(R) you gotta install ntfs-3g for it to - be able to read MS Windows(R) ntfs(R) Microsoft(R) partitions. You - also gotta set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false in - /etc/default/grub and mount the MS Windows(R) directory - in the efi directory for OS proper to work sometimes.

After installing

Make sure you install a good ass DE or WM. No better DE than - good old trusty xfce. Your also going to want lightdm with that. - Thunar is a quite useable file manager though you can betterize it - with gvfs or another opinional packages for cool fancy shit. Or - for even more cool fancy things get something like spaceFM. Just - fuck around tbh. -
If your sound fucking aint working right install - sof-firmware.
I use - yay because it makes life in arch easier even though its - stupid ass bloat. -

Nvidia drivers

A lot can change depending on many things and everything I say - has only been tested on my machine so read some fucking resources - here:

- Offical nvidia arch wiki -
- Some strangely helpful github guide -
- Ewwwww, medium site (it strangely works without - javascript) -

Guide for my system mostly and maybe yours: -

Install some packages:
- sudo pacman -Syu - sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings
Rebuild the initramfs:
- sudo mkinitcpio -P
Follow a guide found here to setup lightdm for - nvidia. -
Open up the xfce startup app thingy and add - nvidia-settings --load-config-only as a startup app - so your nvidia settings load on login.
After reboot you can check the drivers with: -
- My prefered way:
  - sudo pacman -S mesa-utils - glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer"
- Another way: nvidia-smi
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For multi monitor refresh rate issues add these to your - /etc/environment
- CLUTTER_DEFAULT_FPS=<refresh rate of your sync - monitor> - __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=<monitor to sync to>
- Then open your nvidia settings, go to OpenGL Settings and turn off - "Allow Flipping".

Tricks

To clean out shit that builds up in pacman run sudo - pacman -Sc and sudo pacman -Qdtq | sudo pacman -Rs - -
- -Sc also works in yay.

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