THL4-Installation-Setup.txt

Arch Linux K.I.S.S. system with Gnome40 setup (intel nuc, intel laptop & intel desktop)
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Network
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ip a
iwctl

Partition
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lsblk
gpart efi +300M hex ef00
root all disk w q
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdx1
mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdx2
mount /dev/sdx2 /mnt
btrfs su cr /mnt/@
btrfs su cr /mnt/@home
umount /mnt
mount -o noatime,compress=lzo,space_cache=v2,subvol=@ /dev/sdx2 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/{boot,home}
mount -o noatime,compress=lzo,space_cache=v2,subvol=@home /dev/sdx2 /mnt/home

base setup
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pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux-firmware nano intel-ucode intel-media-driver libva-intel-driver mc zsh gnome gdm geany alsa-utils pulseaudio-bluetooth bluez bluez-utils pulseaudio neofetch git
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot

timezone
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ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Halifax /etc/localtime
timedatectl list-time | grep <city> Halifax
hwclock --systohc
nano /etc/locale.gen
choose your locale en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen
nano /etc/locale.conf LANG=en_US.UTF-8

hostname
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nano /etc/hostname <<-- put whatever you want for your hostname

root passwd & pacman grub efi network linux
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passwd <<-- type a root password
pacman -S grub efibootmgr networkmanager network-manager-applet dialog wpa_supplican xdg-utils xdg-user-dirs inetutils linux-headers bash-completion

Kernel modules setup intel kms modesetting & btrfs
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nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES=(i915 btrfs)
mkinitcpio -p linux

UEFI Bootloader Grub
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grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

setting up systemd stuff
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systemctl enable NetworkManager
systemctl enable bluetooth
systemctl enable gdm

User & passwd
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useradd -mG wheel <username> tuxhat
passwd <username> tuxhat
visudo
Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to exec any command
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
:x

Setting up Yay AUR Package Manager
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git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -sri --noconfirm --needed
yay -S gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock-gnome40-git <<-- Dash-to-Dock for gnome 40

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Example script
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install-yay.sh

if ! command -v yay >/dev/null; then
    tmp=$(mktemp -d)
    function finish { rm -rf "$tmp"; }  # clean up after yourself...
    trap finish EXIT                    # ...no matter how you exist

    git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git "$tmp"
    pushd "$tmp"
    makepkg -sri --noconfirm --needed
    popd

    if ! command -v yay >/dev/null; then
        >&2 echo "yay failed to install"
        exit 1
    fi
fi

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Timeshift & Timeshift-autosnap Setup (need yay)
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yay -S timeshift timeshift-autosnap

Gnome-Terminal Themes
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bash -c  "$(wget -qO- https://git.io/vQgMr)"