Welcome to my linux environment setup

My stack consists of the most 5 important elements:

• Arch linux
• Nvim
• Alacritty
• Zsh
• Bspwm

Installation steps:

• Install arch linux ISO from [http://mirror.pmf.kg.ac.rs/archlinux/iso/2021.06.01/]. By the time you are watching this, there will be new versions. Choose the newest.

• Make ISO bootable and plug it in. For this step you are free to use any method you want.

• Open bios on start laptop ( usually F2, with plugged bootable USB ).

• Disable secure boot in bios.

• Change usb boot order ( select your USB device and move it to the top of boot order )

• By this time you should get prompted with your Arch Linux installer which is just the terminal

• Let's get that wifi rolling!.
  

  iwctl
  

  device list
  station ${device name} scan
  station ${device name} get-networks
  station ${device name} connect ${SSID} ( Enter passphrase )
  exit
  

  Verify wifi connection once you are connected:

  ping google.com ( Confirm net )
  

• Setup the time

  timedatectl set-ntp true
  

  Verift the time:

  timedatectl status
  

• Next up we have to do the partitioning. Find Hard Disk you wish to install linux on.

  fdisk -l
  

  Select Hard Disk you wish to install linux on.

  fdisk /dev/${Hardisk/SSD name}
  

  This will lead us to fdisk environment. We have to create a partition table with 3 partitions. Bootable, swap and filesystem once. Filesystem is the one most important for us, because our Linux is actually gonna live on that partition.

  Let' create partition table.

  g
  

  Create boot partition. You will get prompted to fill parition number and size.

  n
  

  Partition number 1 Partition size +550M

  Create swap partition ( Good practice to have it double the size of RAM )

  n
  

  Partition number 2 Partition size +30G

  Create filesystem partition

  n
  

  Partition number 3 Partition size will be the rest of remaining memory. Just hit Enter

  Next we have to change type of boot partition. t 1 1

  Next let's change swap t 2 19

  Last filesystem partition is already correct type becauase it is selected by default.

  Write out our partition table w

• Out first boot partition is going to be FAT type

  mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/{ Device name partition 1 }
  

• Adding swap parition

  mkswap /dev/{ Device name partition 2 }
  

• Turning the swap on

  swapon /dev/{ Device name partition 2 }
  

• Filesystem partition is gonna be EXT4

  mkfs.ext4 /dev/{ Device name partition 3 }
  

• Then we mount our filesystem partition to /mnt path

  mount /dev/{ Device name partition 3 } /mnt
  

• Now we need install linux on our /mnt path. To initilize our linux instalation on our partition that is mount pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware

• Genfstab our /mnt

  genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
  

• Finally let's enter our /mnt as arch installation.

  arch-chroot /mnt
  

• Find your zone. It should be close to your location at least.

  ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
  

• Then we set it up simply by:

  ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Belgrade /etc/localtime
  

• Let's check is our clock is correct.

  hwclock --systohc
  

• Install all of the required packages with pacman ( some might be missing from the list.

  pacman -S neovim sudo grub efibootmgr dosfstools os-prober mtools networkmanager base-devel git xorg xorg-xinit picom nitrogen discord nemo flameshot alacritty bspwm sxhkd rustup alsa-utils pulseaudio pavucontrol bc rofi wmctrl xdotool ripgrep wget noto-fonts neofetch net-tools docker docker-compose redshift xclip xdo ntfs-3g acpid firefox
  

• Install zshrc

  sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
  

• Copy .zshrc from repo to $HOME/.zshrc for ZSH Shell.

  nvim **$HOME**/.zshrc && source **$HOME**/.zshrc
  

  Install:

  git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k
  

  and

  git clone https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-z
  

  and

  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
  

  and

  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
  

  and

  git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.git ~/.fzf && ~/.fzf/install
  

  To have the same configuration, you can also copy .p10k.zsh from repo into your $HOME/.p10k.zsh

• Now we uncomment en-US language so our Linux system displays all the text in that language.

  vim /etc/locale.gen ( uncomment line 177 )
  

  Then we reload:

  locale-gen
  

• Set the hostname.

  vim /etc/hostname
  

  Then simply write wanted hostname. I recomment "arch".

• Set the hosts

  vim /etc/hosts
  

       127.0.0.1 		localhost
       ::1 		        localhost
       127.0.1.1 		${hostname}.localdomain	${hostname}
  

• Set the root password

  passwd
  

• Add a user that you will use, since using root is not practical.

  useradd -m ${username}
  

  Then we set the password for our new user

  passwd {username}
  

  We also give him different permissions. Most important is wheel. Then we can assume root role essentially by running sudo.

  usermod -aG wheel,audio,video,optical,storage,input,docker {username}
  

  But we all want to uncomment wheel all alll line so wheel group acts as godlike group.

  EDITOR=nvim visudo
  

  As said, we uncomment wheel all all line, so wheel is any role.

• Create boot entry for first partition. Then install grub, so our system knows where to boot from.

  mkdir /boot/EFI
  

  mount /dev/{ First boot partition } /boot/EFI
  

  grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck
  

  grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  

• Enable NetowkrManager, so we can have access to wifi next time we log in.

  systemctl enable NetworkManager.service
  

• Let's install yay helper, so we can easily install other dependencies not included in official pacman repo. git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-git.git && cd yay-git && makepkg -si && cd .. && rm -rf yay-git Then we install: yay -S polybar libinput-gestures spotify postman-bin betterlockscreen ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd ttf-fira-code-nerd ttf-hack-nerd noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-extra We will also install nvm to manage our node versions. git clone http://github.com/creationix/nvm.git .nvm source $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh

• Install npm global packages

    npm install -g typescript typescript-language-server diagnostic-languageserver jest mocha pyright svelte-language-server prettier npm eslint_d
  

• Configure sound with

   alsa-mixer
  

• We have to configure out touchpad as well. We take shared default one and put in /etc

   cp /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
  

  Then add to touchpad section:

   Option "NaturalScrolling" "true"
   Option "Tapping" "true"
  

• To run startx on login take .zlogin file from repo and put it in $HOME/.zlogin

   vim $HOME/.zlogin
  

• To suspend on lid switch change /etc/systemd/logind.conf and uncomment HandleLidSwitch=suspend

• To configure neofetch take neofetch folder from repo and put it in $HOME/.config

• To autologin edit:

  sudo vim /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
  

  Then

  ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -a USERNAME %I $TERM
  

  Then

  ln -sf /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected] /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/[email protected]
  

• Copy bspwm folder. Put it in $HOME/.config.

• Copy sxhkd folder. Put it in $HOME/.config.

• Copy polybar folder. Put it in $HOME/.config.

• Copy picom folder. Put it in $HOME/.config.

• Copy alacritty folder. Put it in $HOME/.config.

• Copy .xinitrc file. Put it in $HOME.

• Finally we unmount and that's it:

umount -I /mnt

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All that is left is to <code>reboot</code> and enjoy.
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