This is a basic installation and set up guide for Arch. Before we getting in to the setup, her’s a simple intro. Arch is a DIY GNU/Linux distro which allows you to customize the system as you wish! It supports the x86-64 architecture. Below is a general architecture diagram for the base linux subsystem setup (this will help visualize the setup steps ): Installation Methods We can set up Arch Linux:...
Wondering what to do next after installing the basic version of Arch? Here’s a checklist! PS: Somethings are already covered in my previous post (Arch installation guide), I’ll add a * to those items General Edition: Sorting the mirrors*- follow the instructions to re-order your mirrors by fastest speed. I have used Reflector. Install Sound system and Display Server (Xorg or Wayland)* Set up Window manager or Desktop environment like GNOME, Plasma, Xfce etc* Create user directory files sudo pacman -S xdg-user-dirs xdg-user-dirs-update Configure Pacman Using the below command, you can open the pacman configuration file and uncomment the necessary lines: -allow ParallelDownloads under [options] -add colors -enable VerbosePkgLists to view name, version and size of target packages formatted -CleanMethod = KeepCurrent under[options] to clean up the cache so that only outdated tarballs are deleted -NoExtract (Guidelines with examples) sudo nano /etc/pacman....