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