#I hate networkmanager

[sunskimmer82]

hello everyone please look at hyprland because it's pretty

there's still a lot of work to do but it's coming along and I've gotten past the worst random problems

[poipoipoi-2016]

Alright, so:

Ubuntu install:

Get new Ubuntu live USB

Install that USB onto a backup boot USB that will live in the back of this box forever.

Upgrade/install/etc the initial Ubuntu install which is pretty much "Just works" noting that I had to grab 21.10 instead of 20.04 LTS because Ryzen 5000-series APUs.

Arch install:

Bootstrap Arch onto the first M.2 drive

Alright, let's get Grub working.

Hmm, it's not picking up this install?

Ah nope, that's on me. Gotta mount /boot first

And add an /etc/fstab entry to /mntubuntu to keep the Ubuntu install part of grub....

Woohoo, we have a booting system!

Sorta:

Fuck, no networking

Alright, I'm pretty sure it's not drivers. Ethernet should work clean, so focus on that?

OK, reboot into Ubuntu and arch-chroot again to get dhcpcd and wpa_supplicant

That... doesn't work? Well, I have internet, but not permanently.

Ok, so you need NetworkManager. Reboot, mount, arch-chroot again.

Dbus is crashing, permissions issues reading a conf file. We're running as a non-root user, but the file has permissions... Can't see a directory?

Ok, so / got set to 1000:1000 chmod 700 instead of root:root 755, so a quick chmod

Alright, let's go.

Huh, it works for 30 seconds at a time. Woops, turn down the 2nd dhcp service, but point Network Manager at it, and poke nm_cli a bit

It works!

Alright, we have networking so we're not playing grub games to install everything.

Get a display manager. Gnome seems to work best on Arch, KDE is glitchy.

pacman -S gnome

Why is my terminal crashing? Alright, open a TTY and get Konsole for the moment....

Really, I need to generate /etc/locale.conf? Really? Really?

Browser:

There's an AUR for Chrome, it just works out of the box

I wonder if sound works?

OH MY GOD SOUND WORKS OUT OF THE BOX ON LINUX IN 2021!

BOTH THE SOUNDS JUST WORK!

IT IS SAWANO TIME

Cleanup

I hate gnome and want a taskbar. Install Gnome-extensions

rsync /home to the 2nd M.2 drive

And the end result:

For the record, this took 2 evenings.

It has been 4 hours and I just managed to get Arch Linux to connect to internet on reboot.