new-arch-installation.md

• format:
• GPT: mkfs.fat -F32 for 512M efi partition, mark it as esp (EFI system in fdisk), / as btrfs.
• MBR: format ext4 512Mb for /boot, and btrfs / for the rest.
• Mount the 2 partitions; enable zstd compression on btrfs.
• install with pactrap the base packages (see this page, basically just kernel)
• use arch-chroot to enter the chroot
• Edit /etc/fstab for UUIDs and compression (it's generated these days, see this page)
• install bootloader, but not systemd-boot. In my experience it's not detected by systems, better go with the old pal Grub.
• pacman -S --needed plasma i3 xorg-server git wget gdb konsole sudo pipewire-pulse feh picom hunspell-{ru,en_us} man mold moreutils ttf-ubuntu-font-family xorg-xinput spectacle noto-fonts-emoji gnome-keyring libsecret seahorse libnma cmake extra-cmake-modules man-pages cups system-config-printer libreoffice-fresh meson base-devel libaio perf zsh-completions dnsutils gnome dbus-broker dnsmasq
  • dnsmasq is for WiFi sharing to work.
• systemctl enable cups.socket NetworkManager dbus-broker && systemctl --global enable dbus-broker
• create a user, set a password. As the user account:
  • copy my configs/dotfiles
  • gio mime x-scheme-handler/http org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop && gio mime x-scheme-handler/https org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
  • systemctl enable --user pipewire.socket
• echo user_allow_other >> /etc/fuse.conf
• edit FLAGS in /etc/makepkg.conf to -march=native -O3 -pipe -fmerge-all-constants -flto
• reboot
• log into Gnome and launch some app that requires storing a password to keyring and store something (presumably, a secret-tool store --label="MyApp" myapp myusername may work). This is needed for keyring to get properly initialized, otherwise it won't work in other DEs.
• disable the utterly stupid default limiting amount of wrong password attempts sudo sh -c 'echo "deny = 0" >> /etc/security/faillock.conf'