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#Arch installation help
halcyon crow
I fucked up my installation. Somehow nothing got installed.
I don’t know what I did wrong.
wintry widget
I fucked up my installation. Somehow nothing got installed.
what command did you run?
halcyon crow
The normal ones. Should I use archinstall?
wintry widget
The normal ones. Should I use archinstall?
If you want the easy way out, it will work. But I will warn you it's buggy (somewhat) but still works
halcyon crow
If you want the easy way out, it will work. But I will warn you it's buggy (some...
Oh okay
Can you help me with that
?
wintry widget
Can you help me with that
Would you like help installing it manually or archinstall? and sure.
halcyon crow
Would you like help installing it manually or `archinstall`? and sure.
Idk. I guess if I have help, installing manually would be appreciated.
wintry widget
Idk. I guess if I have help, installing manually would be appreciated.
Alright. Could you do fdisk -l for me? and take a screenshot?
And what partition type do you prefer?
halcyon crow
Nvme is where I want to install it. I’ve partitioned it
I don’t know if it’s correct
The first one is windows
The second one is the boot
The third one is swap and the fourth is root
Or at least it was supposed to be.
wintry widget
what partition type would you prefer for root?
halcyon crow
what partition type would you prefer for root?
I do not have a specific preference.
wintry widget
I do not have a specific preference.
Ah ok, would you like XFS (I hear it's faster)
?
halcyon crow
What’s the difference between xfs and ext4?
wintry widget
What’s the difference between xfs and ext4?
xfs is faster than ext4, but i guess ext4 is the classic to-go filesystem.
halcyon crow
I don’t mind. Whatever you think would be better
I’d it doesn’t have any drawbacks, then sure.
wintry widget
could you type sudo mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p2 ? (This will format the 2nd partition, which you call boot)
Are you using EFI?
I'd assume so
wintry widget
now do sudo mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3 to make the swap file for the 3rd partition if you want it
halcyon crow
Wait
wintry widget
I'll be here
halcyon crow
Look
wintry widget
I meant sudo mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3 mispelled it
wintry widget
yup it worked.
Now sudo mkfs.xfs -L ArchLinux /dev/nvme0n1p4 (-L is label, could be any name tbh)
halcyon crow
wintry widget
If you want to use ext4 still, let me know, but sudo mkfs.xfs -f -L ArchLinux /dev/nvme0n1p4
wintry widget
Xfs is okay I think
kk.
wintry widget
It successfully formatted. now we shall mount /dev/nvme0n1p4
wintry widget
Fucking iPhone taking each photo on 800k, taking up 6mbs
You don't have to take photos btw
halcyon crow
Yayy
halcyon crow
You don't have to take photos btw
Oh okay
wintry widget
let me ask you: Do you prefer a certain desktop environment/application?
(and web browser)
halcyon crow
let me ask you: Do you prefer a certain desktop environment/application?
I would like to use i3, but when I had that, I had some issues, such as not being able to adding the Greek keyboard layout and not having a gui for settings
Are these issues fixable?
wintry widget
I would like to use i3, but when I had that, I had some issues, such as not bein...
oof
wintry widget
Are these issues fixable?
I never used i3, so I couldn't help much :/
with that specifically
halcyon crow
Oh damn unfortunate
Which de would you recommend?
Definitely not KDE, it had fucked me up a lot of times
wintry widget
Which de would you recommend?
If you want something out of the box as a start, I guess you can try GNOME
it can always be uninstalled
wintry widget
Gnome or lxqt?
How old is your computer?
wintry widget
2 years or three. 10th gen intel and thx 1660s
Then you would definitely be able to run both
wintry widget
Gnome or lxqt?
GNOME has a lack of customization when you exclude icon themes or extensions, but lxqt doesn't have many themes
halcyon crow
Let’s go for Gnome for now, then I’ll see what I’ll do
halcyon crow
`linux-hardened` is locked down
Meaning?
halcyon crow
I will do some small virtualization, but I think the normal kernel would be good.
wintry widget
kk.
halcyon crow
The normal one is good for gaming right?
wintry widget
The normal one is good for gaming right?
Yes basically sudo pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-headers linux-firmware gnome gdm (This is the bare minimal with GNOME)
wintry widget
gnome supplies applications, while linux-firmware supplies firmware/drivers/etc
halcyon crow
Oh okay
wintry widget
But do you happen to prefer a web browser?
halcyon crow
But do you happen to prefer a web browser?
I use firefox, because other ones aren’t that good on Linux imo. I used to use brave but then I saw that it had some security issues on Linux
TLDR: Firefox
wintry widget
I use firefox, because other ones aren’t that good on Linux imo. I used to use b...
I see, you can add firefox to the command I pasted.
There is also firefox-developer-edition if you want to go to the edge
halcyon crow
I’ll install normal Firefox for now. It’ll take some time I think for all these to install
wintry widget
I’ll install normal Firefox for now. It’ll take some time I think for all these ...
@ me when it's done installing.
I'll be here
lilac condor
I hate gnome
halcyon crow
Which one do you recommend?
lilac condor
lxqt xfce4 i3
halcyon crow
lxqt xfce4 i3
Do you know a lot about i3?
I’ve had some issues with i3. I couldn’t get a Greek layout to work
halcyon crow
`genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab`
Done
wintry widget
The thing before the input prompt changed
now, nano /etc/locale.gen. And that's normal.
select your locale
in /etc/locale.gen
halcyon crow
Nano not found. I’ll install vim
wintry widget
Locale meaning keyboard layout?
a locale is like for language
mine is
en_US.UTF-8
halcyon crow
Complete
wintry widget
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
wintry widget
Sorry but I have to go for 10 minutes. I’ll be back
Kk all good.
halcyon crow
I am back
11 minutes
@wintry widget
Ah F he is offline
Arch installation help
halcyon crow
Help someone :c
halcyon crow
Please anyone
lilac condor
@halcyon crow ?
cobalt granite
@halcyon crow what do you need help with? it seems like you can just follow the wiki from here
cobalt granite
or tutorial at youtubes
no
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LGBT ARCH LINUX SETUP ISO
halcyon crow
<@404695852297486336> ?
Yes
halcyon crow
Someone help