ARCH Linux Setup

  1. Setup WIFI

    iwctl

    station wlan0 get-networks
station wlan0 connect <Network name>

  2. Arch Install

    • GUI 
      archinstall

    or

    • CLI

      Create partition

      cfdisk /dev/nvme0n1

800 M for EFI System
> 20 GB for Linux filesystem
... for Linux swap

      Format

      mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/<EFI System>
mkfs.ext4 /dev/<Linux filesystem>
mkswap /dev/<swap>

      Mount

      #root
mount /dev/<linux filesystem /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/<EFI system> /mnt/boot
swapon /dev/<swap>

      Install

      pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel linux-zen linux-firmware git sudo neofetch htop intel-ucode nano vim bluez bluez-utils networkmanager 

      genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
cat /mnt/etc/fstab

      Enter the system

      arch-chroot /mnt

# change root password
passwd

# create user
useradd -m -g users -G wheel,storage,power,video,audio -s /bin/bash <username>
passwd <username>

EDITOR=vim visudo
# uncomment line %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

      Timezone

      ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/... /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc
vim /etc/locale.gen #uncomment en_US ...
locale-gen
vim /etc/locale.conf # add "LANG=en_US.UTF-8

      Hostname

      vim /etc/hostname # add hostname

vim /etc/hosts
# add this line:
127.0.0.1   localhost
::1         localhost
127.0.1.1    <hostname>.localdomain   <hostname>

      Bootloader

      pacman -S grub efibootmgr dosfstools mtools

grub-install --traget=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

      Finish

      systemctl enable bluetooth
systemctl enable NetworkManager
exit
umount -lR /mnt

Unplug the USB drive and boot to the system

  1. Setup Enable radio wifi

    nmcli dev status
nmcli radio wifi on
nmcli dev wifi list
sudo nmcli dev wifi connect <name> password "<password>"

# update
sudo pacman -Syu

    Install Desktop GUI

    sudo pacman -S xorg sddm plasma-meta plasma-workspace kde-applications

sudo systemctl enable sddm
sudo systemctl start sddm

  2. Fix Backend Fix Discover App

    sudo pacman -Sy flatpak

    Install Nvidia Driver

    lspci | grep -E "NVIDIA"

sudo pacman -Sy nvidia

  3. Edit boot loader

    sudo pacman -Sy os-prober
sudo vim /etc/default/grub
# change following line
# GRUB_TIMEOUT=20
# uncomment GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

  4. Chinese Character and Keyboard

    sudo pacman -S noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-extra noto-fonts-emoji ttf-dejavu ttf-liberation
sudo pacman -S fcitx5-im fcitx5-rime

cd ~/.local/share/fcitx5/rime
git clone https://github.com/iDvel/rime-ice.git
cp -r ./rime-ice/* .