Linux Setup Notes

 In System Settings app: Uncheck Suspend Session in Power Management, Energy Savings (I've had back luck with corrupted suspends that cause boot failure)   Turn on numlock in Input Devices, Keyboard   Turn on night color in Display and Monitor, Night Color In right-click Display Settings, set up random slide show with preferred wallpapers sudo su and then EDITOR=micro visudo  to get rid of update password timeout Defaults passwd_timeout=0  sudo micro  /boot/loader/loader.conf   to set longer time for boot menu Set up Printer.  HP is easy using HPlip.   Set up Printer: For Brother Laser printer: download linux deb package from Brother yay -S dpkg sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture hll2480dwpdrv-4.1.0-1.i386.deb Then set up in KDE add printer; manually point to ppd file at /usr/share/ppd/brother/XXXXX.ppd socket://192.168.4.174 and https://support.cc.gatech.edu/support-tools/howto/direct-ip-printing-unix   yay -S brother-hll2370dw ...

 Virt-Manager will have been installed in base install.  But to enable it (make sure SVM, or whatever virtualization is called in your BIOS is enabled). From https://computingforgeeks.com/install-kvm-qemu-virt-manager-arch-manjar/ sudo pacman -S qemu-full virt-manager virt-viewer dnsmasq vde2 bridge-utils openbsd-netcat dmidecode ip tables libguestfs edk2-ovmf swtpm Then enable and start libritd.service sudo systemctl enable libvirtd.service sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service sudo micro /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf Set the UNIX domain socket group ownership to libvirt, (around line 85 ) unix_sock_group = "libvirt" Set the UNIX socket permissions for the R/W socket (around line 102 ) unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770" Add your user account to libvirt group.   sudo usermod -a -G libvirt $(whoami) newgrp libvirt Restart libvirt daemon. sudo systemctl restart libvirtd.service Section below is quoted directly from https://linustechtips.com/topic/1379063-windows-11-in-virt-mana...

 Create u.sh in your ~/Downloads directory

OneDrive : Install via: pamac build onedrive-abraunegg from the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR) Note: If asked regarding a provider for 'd-runtime' and 'd-compiler', select 'liblphobos' and 'ldc' type onedrive and follow instructions to authenticate.   Then onedrive --force --skip-dot-files --skip-dir venv --synchronize   Google Drive I use Insync   which is intalled via my base install blogpost.  Open and authenticate and sync. Dropbox Dropbox is installed via my base install.  Open and authenticate. but need  yay -S gnome-browser-connector yay -S libappindicator-gtk3 gnome extension:  AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support   by  3v1n0

 In Konsole, go to Settings , Configure Konsole , Profiles and create new profile and make it the default: Restart Konsole.  micro ~/.config/fish/config.fish and add fastfetch to the last row. In Konsole: fisher install IlanCosman/tide@v6  and go through the set-up steps.      alias --save ld="eza --long  --all --sort modified --total-size"   alias --save lt="eza --long --all --tree --level=2 --sort modified --total-size" Edit profile and get new themes (I like Otto); set font to meslo nerd fonts

 Download and unzip makeFish.sh and makeScid.sh into ~/Downloads.  Make them executable with chmod +x ./makeFish.sh etc. Then run the following script. Copy your xxxxx.desktop launch files to ~/.local/share/applications/ and then run 'update-desktop-database' If you want cron: yay -S cronie systemctl enable cronie.service systemctl start cronie.service

This blog is for my notes on setting up Arch from scratch to my liking. I use KDE Plasma as my desktop and my computers have a NVIDIA GPU (my Asus laptop also has an additional integrated GPU). I am not going to cover downloading the ISO, putting it on a USB, booting from the USB or running the Archinstall installer (selecting the Plasma desktop). Get WIFI running iwctl station wlan0 connect xxxxxxx May need:  sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/nvme1n1 if you have btrfs on old installation When running the arch installer: 1. Don't have a /home partition added!  2. Don't forget desktop! 3. Install both linux and linux-zen kernels 4. Add additional packages:  wget git micro duf base-devel kde-applications to log in the first time it may be helpful to create /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf with "options nvidia_drm modeset=1 fbdev=1"   (although cachyos-settings will overwrite later) Apparmor  Add the following kernel parameters to your Boot Manager, see  Boot Manage...