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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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Fedora xfce

Fedora been my go to for quite a while though I sometimes switch - desktops lmao. I have tried the gnome version but it doesn't really - fit me so most of the time I have used the kde spin though recently - kde just haven't been feeling the same. It has been feeling buggy - and have been fighting with nvidia drivers. After running xfce on my - second computer for a while I grew to really like it and started - using it on my main and it have been running much better then - kde.
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- Fedora xfce can be downloaded here.

- Setting up fedora -
- Nvidia drivers -
- Useful things in fedora -

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Setting up fedora

Fedora has a little extra setup you wouldn't see in something - like linux mint though it isn't that bad.

Packages

You can speed up dnf by adding these to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
- max_parallel_downloads=20 - fastestmirror=True
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- The default repos have lots of stuff but you might want an app that - isn't in it like steam. I know the gnome version has a enable 3rd - party repos button that does everything I listed here but I am on - the xfce version and also had to do this on the kde verison.

Setup rpm fusion to get more packages in dnf with the - resources here -
Install flatpak if not already there using "sudo dnf install - flatpak" then add flathub to get some cool apps! -

Multimedia

By default fedora doesn't have many codecs and you need to - install them yourself. Without them many media files will not work - and lots of youtube videos will not be able to play. The fedora docs - use to show how to install them but they removed it from their page - and instead shows a new version which installs some stuff but not - everything. I do both of them to make sure I get all the codecs I - need.

Update your system with sudo dnf upgrade
Install the new packages with sudo dnf group install - multimedia
Install the old ones with these three commands in a row: -
- sudo dnf install - gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-\*,good-\*,base} - gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-libav - --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel
- sudo dnf install lame\* - --exclude=lame-devel
- sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg - --allowerasing
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Nvidia drivers

Nvidia isn't the best on linux and I like AMD much more though I - am stuck with nvidia for now. For xfce there are some extra settings - to enable it but it works great once that is done. You will need rpm - fusion first before you can install the drivers.

Follow the fedora docs on nvidia here -
Also look at the rpmfusion docs on nvidia here -
Follow the archwiki on nvidia in lightdm here. -
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".

Useful things in fedora

Fedora doesn't - have "update-grub" so instead you have to use these:
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sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg

-          sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg

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Xfce DE

Indeed the best DE out there.

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By default xfce is a very plain desktop and looks kind of old and - shitty (like this website), but it can look and feel great with some - work!

Install nicer icons like papirus, can never go wrong with - papirus icons. then set them as your icon theme
Install a better theme. Some good ones are: -
- - flat-remix -
- - gruvbox -
- - DoorMaker -
- - BaZik -
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Install kvantum and kvantum-qt5 to change qt themes. Add this - to /etc/environment for kvantum to work:
- QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=kvantum
Whisker menu for those who want a more modern menu: -
- Install whisker menu for a way better menu
- Go into the panel settings to remove the old one and - change it to whisker menu.
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Enable clipman as one of the startup apps for a kde like - clipboard.
Make some nicer keybinds: -
- Bind xfce4-popup-whiskermenu to something - like alt+f1 than use xcape to bind it to super to get around - the xfce super key bug. Add xcape -e - 'Super_L=Alt_L|F1' as a startup application or whatever - dummy keybind you binded to whiskermenu. Sadly xfce cant bind - anything to super key without breaking other shortcuts that - use super so we have to use xcape in a painful hacky way.
- Bind "super+v" to xfce4-clipman-history to - make it feel more like the kde clipboard
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Make new windows show up at the mouse by going into the - "Window ManagerTweaks" "Placement" tab, turning the minimum size - all the way up and chaning the place windows position to under the - mouse pointer.
Go into "Window Manager" and set a cooler window style and - more sane shortcuts for virtual desktops.
Go into "Window Manager Tweaks" and fuck around with the - compositor settings for cool clear things.

Rofi in xfce

The default xfce appfinder been causing me - issues lately so I decided to switch to rofi.
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- To make rofi work with my workflow I like to add some binds for it: -

Bind rofi -show drun -icon-theme "Papirus-Dark" - -show-icons to super+d
Bind rofi -show run to super+r
Bind rofi -show window -icon-theme "Papirus-Dark" - -show-icons to super+w

There is much more I could use rofi for but this is all I need. -

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