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:
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Install some packages:
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S
nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings
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Rebuild the initramfs:
sudo mkinitcpio -P
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Follow a guide found here to
setup lightdm for nvidia.
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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.
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After reboot you can check the drivers with:
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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".
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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 -
-Sc also works in yay.
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