I happened to vanilla installed Arch Linux + incomplete KDE and several eye candies.
Caveat to installing
- Remove secure boot
rfkill unblock wifi
- Install btrfs, i.e. "better fs"
- Install NetworkManager. No, there won't be iwctl or
NetworkManager
, if you don't install it. - User management and install
sudo
- Install GRUB, but switch to refind later, with
cp /etc/os-release /boot/etc/os-release
- Install yay. I know that Ubuntu / Debian do have
apt search
, butyay -Ss
,yay -Qs
searches the whole AUR and looks more powerful - Install missing drivers
- Install not only plasma, but also
kde-applications
, just to uninstall many later. (Also installedsddm
. Liked better thanlightdm
)
yay -Rc $(pacman -Qsq kde game) konsole dolphin konquerer kmail
yay -S terminator thunar chromium vscodium-bin vscodium-bin-marketplace
- Does anyone really use Konquerer / Epiphany, BTW?
- Editing Plasma desktop (KDE) to look like GNOME / Xfce.
- Edit SDDM with Arch theme
- Edit icons as deem fit, by editing
~/.local/share/application/**/*.desktop
and finding the icons
find /usr/share/icons -iname '*.png'
- Change Mail application to
[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=xdg-open https://mail.zoho.com/zm/#compose
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=internet-mail
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=Email in browser
Name=Email in browser
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
What about your desktop?
Doesn't have to be Arch. Might be i3wm or Openbox or something else. Care to share your customization?
(BTW, I don't know if I will survive if I tried non-systemd
, like Artix.)
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I had two major problems with Arch.
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, not/@
BTW, how do people usually use btrfs? I plan to use Timeshift