arch install

this is a quick and dirty installation checklist that doesn't include disk encryption because i tried to follow the wiki and fucked up so bad. i'm just distrohopping until debian 13 goes stable, and i'm pretty sure like, a week after i did this, debian testing's sway packages caught up. oh well.

with installation media

1. iwctl: station wlan0 connect SSID-name
2. timedatectl
3. cfdisk /dev/nvme0n1
   • /dev/nvme0n1p1: 1G
   • /dev/nvme0n1p2: 4G
   • /dev/nvme0n1p3: remainder
4. format
   • mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3
   • mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
   • mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p2
5. mount
   • mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt
   • mount --mkdir /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot
   • swapon /dev/nvme0n1p2
6. pacstrap pacstrap -K /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware sof-firmware efibootmgr networkmanager grub neovim sudo zsh bash man-db man-pages texinfo
7. genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
8. arch-chroot /mnt
9. ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/New_York /etc/localtime
10. hwclock --systohc
11. Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen. Run locale-gen.
12. echo "LANG=en_US.UTF08" > /etc/locale.conf
13. echo "thinkpad" > /etc/hostnme
14. mkinitcpio -P
15. passwd for root
16. grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
17. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
18. Reboot.

as root

1. echo "export ZDOTDIR=~/.config/zsh" >> /etc/zsh/zshenv
2. useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/zsh spica
3. EDITOR=nvim visudo and uncomment %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

packages as user

• for development: git, curl, sed
• dotfiles: stow
• desktop: sway, wayland, swaybg, swayidle, swaylock, bemenu, pipewire, wireplumber, ttf-font-iosevka-nerd, noto-fonts-cjk, noto-fonts-emoji, mako
• firefox
• pass, gnupg, openssh

yay and AUR

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si