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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<li><a href="#arch-linux">1. Arch linux</a>
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<li><a href="#installing">1.1. Installing arch</a></li>
<li><a href="#post">1.2. After installing</a></li>
<li><a href="#nvidia">1.3. Nvidia drivers</a></li>
<li><a href="#tricks">1.4. Tricks</a></li>
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<h2 id="arch-linux"><span class="section-number-2">1.</span> Arch linux</h2>
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<p>
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.<br />
<br />
<b>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.</b>
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<li><a href="#installing">Installing arch</a></li>
<li><a href="#post">After installing</a></li>
<li><a href="#nvidia">Nvidia drivers</a></li>
<li><a href="#tricks">Tricks</a></li>
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<h3 id="installing"><span class="section-number-3">1.1.</span> Installing arch</h3>
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<p>
A lot of arch users will get pissed as fuck at me but <b>its ok to use
arch install</b>. I personally prefer manually installing arch and wouldnt
want to do it any other way so I dont use it, btw (:<br />
<br />
The <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide">offical arch
installation guide</a> and other resources on the arch wiki is a great way
to install arch though I also like to use
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgyW10xD8s">distro tubes arch
installation guide</a> 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.<br />
<br />
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
<code>--help</code> 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
<code>GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false</code> in <code>/etc/default/grub</code> and mount the MS
Windows(R) directory in the efi directory for OS proper to work
sometimes.
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<h3 id="post"><span class="section-number-3">1.2.</span> After installing</h3>
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<li>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
<a href="../linux_room.html#spacefm">spaceFM</a>. Just fuck around tbh.</li>
<li>If your sound fucking aint working right install sof-firmware.</li>
<li>I use <a href="https://github.com/Jguer/yay">yay</a> because it makes life in
arch easier even though its stupid ass bloat.</li>
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<h3 id="nvidia"><span class="section-number-3">1.3.</span> Nvidia drivers</h3>
<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-nvidia">
<p>
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:
</p>
<ul class="org-ul">
<li><a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA">Offical nvidia arch wiki</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/korvahannu/arch-nvidia-drivers-installation-guide">Some
strangely helpful github guide</a></li>
<li><a href="https://medium.com/@sakalakis/how-to-easily-install-the-nvidia-drivers-in-arch-linux-5f1b3f1a5f66">Ewwwww,
medium site (it strangely works without javascript)</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
Guide for my system mostly and maybe yours:
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<ul class="org-ul">
<li>Install some packages:<br />
<code>sudo pacman -Syu sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings</code></li>
<li>Rebuild the initramfs:<br />
<code>sudo mkinitcpio -P</code></li>
<li>Follow <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus#LightDM">a
guide found here</a> to setup lightdm for nvidia.</li>
<li>Open up the xfce startup app thingy and add
<code>nvidia-settings --load-config-only</code> as a startup app so your nvidia
settings load on login.</li>
<li>After reboot you can check the drivers with:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>My prefered way:<br />
<code>sudo pacman -S mesa-utils glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer"</code></li>
<li>Another way: <code>nvidia-smi</code></li>
</ul></li>
<li>For multi monitor refresh rate issues add these to your
/etc/environment<br />
<code>CLUTTER_DEFAULT_FPS=<refresh rate of your sync monitor> __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=<monitor to sync to></code><br />
Then open your nvidia settings, go to OpenGL Settings and turn off
"Allow Flipping".</li>
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<h3 id="tricks"><span class="section-number-3">1.4.</span> Tricks</h3>
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<li>To clean out shit that builds up in pacman run <code>sudo pacman -Sc</code> and
<code>sudo pacman -Qdtq | sudo pacman -Rs -</code><br />
<code>-Sc</code> also works in yay.</li>
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