Arch Linux
Installation
First, create an Arch Linux installer USB drive, refer to USB flash installation medium.
Partition Disk
fdisk -l
/dev/sda 232.89G, Samsung SSD
/dev/sdb 1.8T
/dev/sdc 128G, USB flash drive
cfdisk /dev/sda
RAM: 32G
/dev/sda1 /boot 200MB (efi_sys_partition /mnt/boot)
/dev/sda2 swap 32G (swap_partition)
/dev/sda3 / 200G (root_partition /mnt)
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mkswap /dev/sda2
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
swapon /dev/sda2
Mirrorlist
vim /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# add Server = http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware
genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt
pacman -S dhclient dhcpcd
Locale Settings
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Shanghai /etc/localtime
hwclock —systohc
vim /etc/locale.gen
# uncomment two lines: en_US.UTF-8 and zh_CN.UTF-8
locale-gen
echo LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
echo arch > /etc/hostname
Install Grub
mkinitcpio -p linux
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
passwd # enter password two times
exit
umount /mnt/boot
umount /mnt
reboot
System Time
# sync system time with network time
timedatectl set-ntp true
AUR
32-bit support & archlinuxcn
vim /etc/pacman.conf
# uncomment two lines of the [multilib] section
# add the lines below:
[archlinuxcn]
Server = https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/archlinuxcn/$arch
Server = https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/archlinuxcn/$arch
Server = https://mirrors.hit.edu.cn/archlinuxcn/$arch
Server = https://repo.huaweicloud.com/archlinuxcn/$arch
sudo pacman -S archlinuxcn-keyring
sudo pacman -Sy yay
Software
Check awesome for more info.
| Usage | Software |
|---|---|
| terminal | kitty, alacritty, tmux |
| zsh | zsh, zsh-completions, oh-my-zsh, powerlevel10k, neofetch, xcompmgr |
| X.org | xorg, xorg-xinit |
| window manager | i3-wm, lxdm, dmenu |
| file manager | ranger, pcmanfm |
| applet | network-manager-applet, pa-applet |
| editor | neovim, emacs, code |
| coding | git, python, pip, miniconda, matlab |
| LaTeX | texlive-{most, langchinese} |
| database | mariadb |
| poppler-data, okular, mupdf, evince | |
| office | wps-office |
| mutt, thunderbird | |
| image | feh, imagemagick |
| video | vlc, mpv |
| music | netease-cloud-music |
| browser | chromium, google-chrome |
| utils | conky, albert, dunst, redshift, compton, nitrogen, ntft-3g, proxychains-ng |
| input | fcitx5, fcitx5-{chinese-addons, pinyin-zhwiki, configtool, lua, nord, gtk, qt |
| fonts | jetbrains mono, noto, source-code-pro, font-awesome, meslo-nerd-font |
| chinese fonts | wqy-{microhei,zenhei}, adobe-source-han-serif-cn-fonts |
| VPN | v2ray, v2raya, clash |
fcitx5 config
nvim ~/.xprofile
export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx5
export SDL_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
export GLFW_IM_MODULE=ibus kitty
Fonts
wqy-{microhei,zenhei}
adobe-source-han-serif-cn-fonts
adobe-source-code-pro-fonts
noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-extra
font-awesome
ttf-meslo-nerd-font-powerlevel10k
jetbrains
Make sure to install some nerd fonts (JetBrains Mono NFM, Fira Code, etc.).
VPN
Recommend ExpressVPN/NordVPN, check this link.
Some cheap options:
Nvidia Graphics Drivers, Cuda, Cudnn
yay -S nvidia nvidia-settings lib32-nvidia-utils
Auto start services
systemctl enable bluetooth.service
systemctl enable/start sshd.service
systemctl enable/start lxdm.service