#arch linux setup

[darcksama]

Conheça todos os segredos do biglinux e ferramentas ocultas do sistema que pode te ajudar ainda mais na sua produtividade.

[godlessarco]

Welp after Recall got announced the whole internet panicked a little

And understandably so, and so did I

So I’ve made the full transition to Linux.

It was tedious, and complicated, but I believe EndevourOS is now stable in my PC

Now figuring out gaming essentials.

So yea, hello Arch community, I’m a total Linux newbies whose for some reason computer didn’t like Kubuntu and since I really wanted KDE Plasma, EndevourOS was my pick.

I fucked up a lot, but my friend really likes this one image so I have learnt to live by it too, the endevour of this switch will be worth it if anything so that I learn how to Linux

I’m taking in Wallpaper recommendations since I used to use the Windows 11 default one but now idk what to use :P

[nashvillehotchicken]

"windows 11 upgrade ready!" "your computer is eligible for windows 11!" "download windows 11 now!"

[scaththefloof]

damn, I never realized how much my Linux setup has changed

my main laptop went from running ubuntu to kubuntu (Ubuntu KDE flavor), to running arch thanks to an ethernet cable laying around

and I went from this on my main laptop:

to this:

and there is probably going to be more changes in the future

[bisexual-engineer-guy]

*installs Firefox and opens emacs and starts crawling around and murring*

how does one even run a linux blog,,

[bunabyte]

wanting to do more setup stuff on my arch Linux install, but I can’t, because I have to go to school. This is so transphobic guys.

[emme-likes-words]

I don't like Arch Linux, and let me tell you why.

First, one of the major "selling" points of Arch is that it's light. However, if your computer isn't from, like, 1856, the amount of "bloatware" on something like Mint is insignificant, and there won't be a noticeable difference in performance between that and Arch. If your PC is powered by a potato battery and has a raw chunk of quartz as a processor, then sure, Arch might be for you. But if you're one of those people with 128 gigs of RAM and a 4090, then you have no reason to avoid bloatware like it's the plague. Besides, "bloated" distros are already much lighter than Windows, which is what the average person uses. Second, another major "selling" point is that you'll learn all about your setup. And that's partially true; you'll learn what programs do what, because you installed them all yourself. But after a while, that's done. Anything else you wanna learn, you have to go out of your way to do it, and if you have to go out of your way to learn, you could have probably learned that on PopOS or Mint. And besides, if you really want to learn Linux, using Arch isn't the way to go, studying is. Take a class or go on an online course. That'll teach you more than any OS ever could. Then, there's the whole "you have control over your system" thing. And to that, I say: You're on Linux. Almost every OS gives you control over your system. You can customize Mint as much as you can customize Arch. I would know, I use Mint with i3, and it works great. Super customizable, I don't have to put up with all the struggle that comes with Arch, and I have all the features that come with Mint. It's lovely. That just leaves the cool factor, which is a valid reason to use Arch, but I find it wears off rather quickly. After a certain point, having to tinker isn't cool, it's annoying.

To summarize my last three points: All distros let you tinker, but Arch makes you tinker, and tinkering is much less fun when you have to do it. To conclude this post: I don't see many reasons to use Arch in a personal-use PC, but if you find a reason I haven't listed here, I would love to hear it! And if you're considering using Arch, don't let me stop you. It's not for me, but maybe it's for you. Only one way to find out.

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[ceausescue]

Hi, can you tell me about btrfs? It was a default choice for the filesystem when I installed fedora on my laptop and I read little bit about how it is different from like ext4 and what cool stuff it supports etc. But I newer, like, utilised all that stuff in it. So, if you don't mind, can you tell me what am I missing and how do I utilise it potential?

btrfs! what is btrfs? btrfs is a copy-on-write journaling filesystem with various other goodies. my experience is mostly using it on one disk on my personal machine, which seems to be what you're doing with it also. you may have heard some bad things about btrfs eating your data silently and then the mailing list being really mean about it, and all that is true but it's only true if you're using btrfs raid4 or raid5, which you aren't. for our use case there's absolutely nothing to fear- btrfs is an absolutely rock solid filesystem and i wouldn't accept any other for my daily driver

i was planning on writing this whole long thing summarizing my notes because when i was learning all this stuff i couldn't find any source that had everything i needed in one place. but that was 4 years ago, and since then fedora switched to using it by default. nowadays there are a bunch of articles explaining all the fundamental concepts and commands and such. the two linked at the bottom ive read and can vouch for, and they cover basically all the intuition for the concepts and commands and such. so im going to focus on cool things you can do with a COW filesystem

basically all the cool things you can do are snapshots. snapshots, better explained in the links, are lightweight copies of entire file trees. you can, for instance, take a snapshot of your home directory and then be able to access all your files at the time of the snapshot whenever you want, even if you change them in the "real" version. but you can do better than this. if your subvolume layout is correct (and don't worry, fedora's is), you can rollback to a previous snapshot whenever you want. with a little configuration you can make all your root snapshots bootable, so you can select in grub or whatever which version of your filesystem you want to boot into. with a little bit of doing, which im not sure is easy on fedora but certainly might be, i got my computer set up so that my boot directory is just a btrfs subvolume on my regular filesystem. if an update breaks my setup, which does happen from time to time, i can go back to exactly the state i was in, files packages kernel and all

you can and should use btrfs for your backups also. not local snapshots, those aren't very good backups, but incremental backups to an external drive or over ssh to another machine. for this i use btrbk, which is a pretty simple script that just makes use of btrfs features to make safe, fast, and reliable backups to wherever you might want them. then, because it's using native features of the filesystem, recovering from just about anything is dead simple. you can send over the subvolumes and mount them wherever. the one thing is that for most of these you need a bootable drive with btrfs and enough drivers to work on your system. whatever you used to install fedora should work fine

and with that you basically need fear no file loss event, big or small. i mean i wouldn't give up git or anything, but now you can retrieve your desktop layout, your browser settings, your /etc, whatever you want. its absolutely magic. since doing an install with this btrfs setup 4 years ago i have had absolutely nothing break in a way i couldn't fix in under 15 minutes, even running arch objectively badly. imagining life without snapshots feels barbaric now. its one of a handful of things which are just objectively better on linux for any user at any skill level. data loss is a choice, and it has been for almost a decade. take my hand

additional notes:

APFS: yeah apple has this too. time machine is a brilliant piece of software and the apple ppl are lucky to have it. however! i have needed to actually go back and use my backup like 2 times ever. most of the time i just use the snapshots locally. plus afaik you don't have the same range of options to deal with snapshot size- i dont hang onto my steam directory for very long

ZFS: if you need raid id say zfs is definitely better (zpool is awesome). but a lot of the things you can do with snapshots and subvolumes on btrfs aren't actually possible on zfs. a rollback on zfs is a very specific action which invalidates everything that came after- it's not to be done lightly. with btrfs you just move subvolumes around and they're available whenever you need them

encryption: its annoying but you should put your filesystem inside of lvm inside of LUKS and it'll work fine. its the same as using LUKS normally, and once it's open it's the same as using btrfs normally. this would probably suck for multiple disks, in which case you should use zfs

hibernation: use LVM to have a swap partition and call it a day, storage is cheap these days. ive heard swap files are improved somehow (?) but i dont use one and there really isn't any reason to

compression: imo not a showstopper or anything but it comes in handy. i wouldn't expect huge gains in space usage (storage is cheap anyway) but a lot of modern cpus are good enough at compression that it's actually faster to store everything compressed bc the bottleneck is disk IO. you can test what algorithm and level works best for you, and tune it by subvolume. on my nvme i dont notice a difference, but my server has some hard drives and compression speeds things up

[zoeythebee]

Since you use Arch:

1) What made you choose Arch?

2) How hard is it to use?

3) If you do that, how hard is it to dual boot with Arch?

(I think many/maybe most Linux OS have documentation, but I'm not very familiar with Arch other than the memes. My main debugging skills are looking stuff up and asking people, in that order)

(The 3 distros on top of my to-try list are Debian, Mint, and Arch. I'd be delighted to have a reason to put one of them higher on the list.)

1. The size of the repository. With the AUR plus the already large official repository practically every program no matter how niche is one command away. And also the documentation is fucking incredible. I've been trying out Debian lately but honestly I might switch back because its repository sucks (latest neovim version is 6.x????) And the documentation is awfulllll.

2. Just as easy as every other distro. Also since you set up the environment you can tune it to your need. I tend to work exclusively through a terminal so I rock a super minimal setup.

Setup can be kinda tricky, installing is a process but the guide is very easy to follow, and there is also the archinstall script that makes the process way way simpler.

Setting up your environment is a rabbit hole but it's mostly installing programs and setting then up. You can install a display manager and KDE and have a totally fine easy to use experience with next to how effort. And while setting up I can practically guarantee the wiki has a detailed page with all the info you may need.

TL;DR the install process can be complex, setting up a desktop environment is super easy, and using it is very easy.

3. Dual Booting is either super simple. Or genuinely the hardest thing you can do with linux. If you dont mind manually opening the bios and switching the boot source to switch its easy.

If you want to be able to launch windows from GRUB without opening the bios prepare for hell on earth. When I tried it, it took a week and I never got it to work. And it's very easy to fuck up your boot loader and fixing that is extremely difficult with few resources online.

I personally

[centlinux]

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[cypheroxide]

So, last week I tried streaming on Twitch for the first time ever. I wanted to show the process I go through for installing and setting up my workstation for cybersecurity and gaming. The catch is that I use Linux as my main operating system and **WHILE I WAS STREAMING**, my capture desoldered itself and my Arch install disc got corrupted.

45 minutes into a stream, a week of posting on my socials, setting up OBS and reconfiguring my desk setup for dual pc streaming, and my social anxiety was correct. I should have never hit "start streaming".

And now I'm reconsidering.... I wonder, now that my setup is finished and tweaked to my preference, should I try streaming again? Maybe this time I'll do the install in a VM instead of a live production machine... Or maybe I should just listen to the 8 pounds of anxiety meat slopping around in my head and stay a social hermit.

[violetlypurple]

quick q about ffxiv; are you on plain arch or an arch-based distro? gathering intel to help a friend switch to linux in a month or two & don't play mmos myself; I'd like to see about taking the non-steam version for a spin on my Garuda installation beforehand to see if it generally works well, but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

either way, good tip about just using "add to steam"; hadn't considered that!

I'm on plain arch with KDE using the mesa drivers that come with the kernel for an arc 750 (which is about all we get on intel dgpus atm, I've tried the official ones included with ubuntu but I'm not convinced they're better and this is an unprompted tangent so moving on). Giving equivalency for performance is a little hard because arc gpu's are hard to pin in a hierarchy with the state of their drivers, but FFXIV locks to a steady 60fps at 1440p and hovers up around 100fps at max settings if I uncap it. This will likely change in a month when the new expac comes out, but your FFXIV-playing friend already knows that part I'm sure 🙏

On my driver tangent, someone in the reblogs made a good point about proprietary drivers and I'd amend, for the general viewing public while I'm here, that the two main cases where that will be relevant are nvidia gpu drivers and wifi adapters, since amd and intel have open source ones that most modern distros will pack in or give an option in setup for. Ubuntu and the archinstall script have those options and I thiiiink mint did too the last time I turned my nose up at it. So in most cases I would only direct a newcomer to seek out drivers if they are having an issue. Or nvidia shenanigans happen, as they are wont to do. My overall distro experience is fairly limited to ubuntu, arch, and the barest whiff of armbian, but the proprietary driver install in ubuntu's setup is dead easy and ubuntu's desktop environment comes with a shortcut that directs to the update settings for proprietary drivers. Its fantastic for terminal-shy newcomers and old "can't be bothered" people like myself.

[antagonistchan]

return

in 2019, i switched to using Linux as my primary operating system. at first, i tried to avoid using Windows as much as possible, but that ultimately turned out to be not viable, switching to Windows on occasion is a necessary part of my lifestyle. but, i still wanted Linux as my primary OS.

of course, Linux comes in many different varieties, and i didn't think too hard about which one i wanted, so... i just went with Ubuntu. Ubuntu's like, the basic starter Linux. not too respected, but not too disrespected either, and extremely well-supported and easy to dip your toes into. i'd actually already dipped my toes into Ubuntu; my dad experimented with maybe switching me to Ubuntu in 2011 when my computer at the time was suffering some major glitches.

and then a few months later, i got my current laptop. because i'd realized that i still needed Windows at this point, i got this laptop with a dual-boot setup. one drive running Windows 10, the other running, again, Ubuntu. and i stuck with this setup for a while.

but then, back in Spring, i decided i was ready to move on from both Windows 10 and Ubuntu. i've always fucking hated Windows 10 so fucking much since it came out, and i already had enough experience with Windows 11 on another computer to know that i VASTLY preferred it (plus, Windows 10 support is ending next year anyway); and i've been primarily a Linux user for five years now, i'm ready to try a different version of Linux.

but upgrading the Windows boot to 11 was a greater hassle than i expected, and i couldn't quite decide on which version of Linux i wanted to switch to. Fedora and Arch were the two candidates- almost as popular and widely-used as Ubuntu, but much more respected. especially Arch, which is what real serious Linuxheads tend to lean towards in my experience.

and, while i still prefer Linux to any version of Windows, i legitimately think Windows 11 might just be my favorite Windows ever, it's like unbelievably tolerable. so for the last few months, i just... briefly went back to being a Windows slut.

like, as i once said in a previous post: when Windows 10 came out, i immediately couldn't get with it, it just turned me off so much. but i didn't want to be a stubborn old woman having a kneejerk reaction to change, so i tried hard to convince myself that Windows 10 was probably fine. but eventually i just had to admit that i just loathe Windows 10 so much. but i had the exact opposite reaction to Windows 11. i immediately found it SUCH a refreshing change and SUCH a drastic upgrade over 10 that i had to hold myself back from praising it too hard- it's still a Microsoft product, and for all i know it's secretly powered by the souls of orphans, so don't just go jumping on the love bandwagon just yet. all i can responsibly say is "Yeah Windows 11 is like infinitely more comfortable for me personally than Windows 10 was".

but it was always a temporary return to Microsoft's cold, calculating embrace. i always intended to go back to primarily using Linux once i finally figured out what i wanted to do and had a good opportunity to do it. and now, i'm very suddenly running into way more Windows Annoyances than i had been for the last few months.

it's time.

(i chose Fedora because Arch does seem a little more intimidating; i think the fairly reliable route to go is just to start with Fedora and eventually upgrade to Arch. unless i just end up really falling in love with Fedora)

[emme-likes-words]

I thought I had retired from my Linux Misadventures. I thought Mint, simple and functional, was the permanent solution to my problems. I was disillusioned with Arch and the like, seeing them as unnecessary complications to avoid a boogeyman known as bloatware, something the average setup has to reason to be concerned about.

However...

Okay imma drop the fancy talk: I got a new laptop and I hate trackpads, so I thought, "Hey, window managers let you use your keyboard for a lot more stuff! Let's use i3."

So, I installed EndeavorOS on my laptop, with i3WM. And... It's lovely. It's beautiful, it's practical, it's speedy and light...

Yeah. I installed it on my PC too. Now, whenever I'm not writing or gaming, I'll probably be back on my Linux Misadventures, customizing like I did on Mint, and even further beyond. To conclude this post: LINUX 4 LIFE!

[heavenlyhorses]

something to remember about me is i am a stubborn linux user who uses vim for writing blogposts. currently im on an old thinkpad but will move to a gamer laptop with a windows/arch setup (working on that in the coming days actually). and i hate thinking about my appearance, i love eating olives, and the only thing i miss when at sea is my farm.