#Help me to improve my arch linux installation

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dim coral
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I'm a relatively new Linux user and, like any beginner, I came across a distro (which, by the way, is Arch) and I also chose specific desktop settings, such as using a window manager instead of a desktop environment and I also dedicated myself to trying to have an environment as light as possible, without bloatware and only what is necessary. Even though the notion of perfect is something quite utopian, I would really like to hear the opinion of those who know about Linux judging my installation process, from some polluted and ugly/unnecessary commands, to wrong decisions, bad applications and things like that. Maybe my installation is too raw, maybe I'm forgetting something in the security part, I don't know, I came here looking for this help lol, I'll leave below a text document where all the commands I use for my installation are listed.

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empty cairn
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make your profile check for $DISPLAY and the tty number instead of just executing startx:

if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ]; then exec startx; fi
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also set up a firewall

vestal remnant
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.aw post installation

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mystic quail
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.aw general recommendations

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mystic quail
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This is also good to skim through

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One thing though, did you ever run hwclock --systohc?

dim coral
# empty cairn also set up a firewall

So, I've been researching this and I've come to the conclusion (correct me if I'm wrong) that a firewall would only be necessary for public networks or for more inexperienced users who don't know how to browse the internet safely, since firewalls like ufw and others only serve to block certain network traffic. So, considering that I only use it at home and I have full knowledge of where I browse, would it still be interesting to configure these things? Because I myself had already made some configurations like this, regarding firewall, energy saving (tlp), openssh configurations and things like that, but I realized that for my use, where I'll only be connected (I don't use my computer outside of home) and will only browse the internet, I think a lot of things would be unnecessary, right? Besides the fact that iptables is already quite competent.

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