Editing Arch Linux

=Archlinux=
Archlinux is a rolling release linux distribution that is constantly updating and is often considered bleeding edge. It has a tendency to break, often, with updates but it generally impacts low level applications and custom things that rely on super-selective (outdated) versions of other software.

=Installing Arch Linux=

*[[Installing Arch Linux]]
*[[Installing Arch Linux on Raspberry Pi]]
*[[Installing Arch Linux on VMWare]]

=Packages of Interest=
Most of this has moved to [[Arch Packages]] 

==Graphical Interface==
To get setup in a GUI, your basic steps are:

* Drivers
** Like [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA NVIDIA] or [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#AMD AMD] or [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vulkan Vulkan]
* Xorg
** pacman -S xorg xorg-xinit xorg-server xorg-server-utils xterm
* Desktop Environment
** Like [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XFCE XFCE] or [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE KDE]
** Make sure to get a display manager as well like [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SDDM SDDM]
* Audio
** Pulseaudio / ALSA

==Gaming==
===Dependencies===
* Wine
* Proton
* Vulkan
* Lib32

===Launchers===
* Steam
* Lutris
* Legendary (Epic Games Store)

===Hardware Performance and Monitoring===
* Glances
** Hardware monitoring and process viewer
** Typically just execute the following or add it to your autostart and goto http://localhost:61208/
    glances -w &
* [https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch Steamtinkerlaunch]
** To launch things like Gamemode and MangoHUD
** Tweak launch settings of a ton of things prior to launching a game
    gamemoderun %command%
    mangohud %command%
** Modify steam launch options or run a game in place of command with
    stl %command%
* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gamemode Gamemode]
** Modifies performance profiles (like CPU/GPU powersave/performance) and other tweaks for games
* [https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud MangoHUD]
** Overlay for performance monitoring

==Custom Kernels==
See [[Kernels]] for more info

=Maintenance=
[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance ArchWiki]

==Cleaning up after Pacman and systemd==
Sometimes pacman and systemd will get really bloated after a while and you'll notice /var/ getting a little heavy on disk side. If you're not doing log rotation you'll likely encounter more issues in /var/log, but we'll get to that.

<pre>
journalctl --vacuum-time=2weeks
pacman -Sc
</pre>

That'll clear up some disk space for ya.

=Goals=
* [[Yawgix]]
* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF Passthrough]

=Backups=
Sometimes you gotta nuke it from orbit, here's how to prepare for rebuilding:


==Configs==
See what's changed since you installed the system (run as root):
    pacman -Qii | awk '/^MODIFIED/ {print $2}'
User configs are typically in the /home/ folder or ~/.config

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