Anthonys Arch Setup
1. Boot Into Arch and Run the Installer
- Create an Arch USB using Etcher or Ventoy.
- Boot the laptop from USB.
- When the terminal loads, run:
archinstall
Install Settings
Here is what I did for these settings. Some are abvious and I’m not trying to be condisending. Think of this section as a checklist
Archinstall language
Select_language = “English”
Locales
Keyboard_layout = “us” Locale_language = ’en_US.UTF-8" Locale encoding = UTF-8
Mirrors and repositories
Do nothing
Disk configuration
Select “Partitioning” Then select “Use a best-effort default partition layout” Select the main hard drive Select the filesystem ext4. Select btrfs if you want better snapshot and rollback support but this type is less battletested. It will ask if you want to make a seperate partition for /home. Chose no unless you know what your doing
Swap
Do nothing
Bootloader
Bootloader = “Grub”
Kernels
Do nothing
Hostname
Hostname = “anthopc” // name this whatevery you want your pc name to be
Authentication
Select “Root password” Set the root passowrd Select User account Select Add a user type a root password Select “add new user” Type a user name type password for that user Do nothing for U2F login setup
Profile
Select “Type” Select “Desktop” Select “KDE Plasma”
Applications
Select “Bluetooth” Select “Yes”
Network Configuration
Additional packages
Timezone
Select “America/Los_Angeles”
Automatic time sync (NTP)
Select “Yes”
Save the configuration
Then press Install
Misc
If it asks you to if you want to create a seperate partitoin for /home say no unless you know what your doing
Use X11 if it recomends it to you and your using a cheap toster computer
Wifi
Run these commands
sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager
Go to System Settings Select Connections Press the Pluss Button. You can use this menu to add Wifi Manualy if you don’t see your network in this menu. It may be needed to do so manualy. Your on linux after all.
Install WhiteSur Theme
As you know, I have a scew lose in my head and like to make my computer setups look like apple computers. I love it when people say you use mac, nice… Wait a minute is that mac. And then they get super confused as to what I’m using. White sur is perfect for that.
