An intuitive way to install ArchLinux

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Step 01 - Connect to the Internet.

Check your Wifi network interface:

Enter the IWD interface:

Inside the interface, type the following commands:

To start searching the network assuming your device is wlan0

To list available networks (SSID)

Finally, connecting to the Internet

Optional Step - Backup - For a system reinstall without formatting

BACKUP CAN BE, FOR A LIST.

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OR YOU CAN REUSE EXISTING PACKAGES FROM YOUR HD WITH THIS METHOD:

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First mount the root partition (/)

Analyze if there is subvolume interfering:

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Back up existing packages in the cache:

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Step 02 - Partitioning and Formatting:

Partition the HD

Create "sda1" 250MB to boot - If it is UEFI the partition of BOOT have to be in FAT.

Create "sda2" a partition for the root (/) of the system (root) of at least 30GB.

Create "sda3" 512MB or 3GB for swap/ 3GB if you want sleep mode - can be a larger size, up to the same number of your RAM

To partition use these commands:

To check existing partitions:

To quickly zero the HD and create a new partition table:

To just create partitions within an existing partition table:

For another partitioner in text mode, very efficient by the way, in my opinion the best: parted

To properly format each linux partition. Format in ext4 64Bits or XFS.

Example:

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EXT4 and more compatible with DESKTOP programs: games, etc. Not to mention that ext4 is a mature system. Which supports improper shutdown.

On the other hand XFS is the fastest file system with proper support for SSDs. Equally, it is a mature system with Journaling.

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For UEFI:

The partition /boot or /boot/EFI already have to be in FAT-12/16/32

It is worth noting that a partition FAT12 have to have at least 1M. already the FAT16 with at least 9M and FAT32 with at least 33M

If you are going to use it as /boot have to have at least 250M as /boot/EFI is the minimum indicated above corresponding to the chosen FAT partition type.

Use -F12 for FAT12. Example:

FORMATTING EXAMPLE

The option -L assigns labels to partitions, which helps to query them later through /dev/disk/by-label without having to remember your numbers. Now mount your partitions:

PARTITION TABLE ASSEMBLY EXAMPLE, ACCORDING TO FORMATTING ABOVE:

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Step 03 - FINALLY, LET'S GO TO INSTALLATION:

To just load the keyboard layout for US:

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Now it's inside the system (chroot):

For encrypted HDs, that is, only, if you deliberately encrypted your HD, to do so, follow this LINK from my tutorial:

In order for the system to start correctly, install GRUB:

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For systems UEFI

The partition /boot or /boot/EFI already have to be in FAT-12/16/32. As already mentioned.

Now prepare GRUB for UEFI:

For BIOS (i386-pc):

Finish with:

If you dual boot with Rwindows, install the following "os-prober", then repeat the above command, or do it before running:

"Root password"

Create your username: Don't forget to change the name: YourPreferenceUser <-- To your preferred Username. No accents. Example: john

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Creating a password, for your user:

Editing SUDOers to have admin access:

Look for the line: "root ALL=(ALL) ALL"

And just below include your username like this: YourPreferenceUser ALL=(ALL) ALL

For XORG - That is, without it you will not have a graphical interface, it is extremely important:

If you dual boot with Windows, use:

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To your hostname:

To have internet:

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Step 04 - Drivers

For Nvidia drivers:

Enable Multilib in /etc/pacman.conf

Strip the hashtag before the two lines: [multilib] and Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

For intel driver:

Enable Multilib in /etc/pacman.conf

Strip the hashtag before the two lines: [multilib] and Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

For AMD driver:

Enable Multilib in /etc/pacman.conf

Strip the hashtag before the two lines: [multilib] and Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Para o driver de Áudio:

Enable Multilib in /etc/pacman.conf

Strip the hashtag before the two lines: [multilib] and Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

You can enable Radv, for your AMDGPU RADEON, so follow my tutorial, super easy:

Step 05 - Desktop

Workspaces, choose either one or the other. Among them are: KDE, Cinnamon, GNOME, DEEPIN, XFCE, MATE

For Plasma kde:

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To install Cinnamon:

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To install GNOME:

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To install DEEPIN:

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Or, if you don't have deepin-anything-dkms:

To install XFCE:

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To install MATE:

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KDE uses 800MB RAM, Cinnamon and GNOME use 750MB RAM, DEEPIN uses 700MB RAM, XFCE and MATE use 650MB RAM

To install XMATECE, an interface as beautiful and complete as MATE, but which uses less than 300MB of RAM, follow this tutorial:

Step 06 - For those who want to use the startx rather than SDDM/GDM/LightDM and etc

For TTY Autologin - GETTY - here is for autologin, WITHOUT NEEDING DM (Desktop Manager), like: lightdm, GDM, SDDM and etc:

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Don't forget to change YourPreferenceUsername <-- To your preferred username. No accents. Example: john

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Start SERVICE

Step 07 - Adjustments for: PERFORMANCE / GAMES / SECURITY

Prepare for games. All the necessary dependencies, including to considerably increase the performance in games:

Enable Multilib in /etc/pacman.conf

Strip the hashtag before the two lines: [multilib] and Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

For codecs (codecs, are extremely important in the system, for better multimedia harmony: sound and video):

Enable Multilib in /etc/pacman.conf

Strip the hashtag before the two lines: [multilib] and Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

To make your computer much faster, more efficient, more secure. Increase performance and FPS in GAMES:

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In /etc/security/limits.conf Note: Below command will increase performance and FPS in games.

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include in /etc/systemd/

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For notebooks:

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If you don't enjoy your monitor, turning off, or dimming the screen (black screen), do the following:

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Step 08 - Enable Hibernation

For system HIBERNATION. Example:

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In resume=UUID change according to the example below and place according to the result of the blkid command, only the part of the UUID

In /etc/mkinitcpio.conf include in "HOOKS=" "resume" right after "filesystems"

After everything changed, run the commands for the system to go to sleep:

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If you use paging swapfile - file to virtual memory (swapfile) and want the system to hibernate, follow the tutorial below:

Step 09 - Additional Apps, Drivers and Configs:

To install to printers:

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Totally optional, for virtualbox run:

To install LibreOffice:

Optional. To install TrueType fonts to increase the number of fonts on your system, search and install the ones you prefer:

If you prefer to install all the fonts available in the repository, all at once, without even searching:

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Or you can also install these fonts:

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To have excellent accessibility support like TTS, follow the tutorial on my website:

For you to change the name of your distribution, if you want:

So that you can use the famous AUR repository, when you don't have the desired program in the official repository, install yay, to use the AUR repository:

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For you who came from UBUNTU or DEBIAN, and are used to the apt-get command, use:

If you want to install Windows Games on Linux with ease. See the PlayOnGit project

For obsolete driver incompatible with current kernels: Catalyst

DO NOT use it, it's deprecated, it's here for Linux history purposes.

pacman-key -r 653C3094

pacman-key --lsign-key 653C3094

echo # uninstall the open drivers:

pacman -Rcc lib32-ati-dri ati-dri xf86-video-ati

pacman -S catalyst-hook catalyst-libgl catalyst-utils acpid qt4

install extra components (optional but needed for gaming):

pacman -S opencl-catalyst lib32-catalyst-utils lib32-catalyst-libgl lib32-opencl-catalyst