- Wayland - Plasma 6 - Plymouth - PipeWire - LVM on LUKS - Unified Kernel Image - TPM PIN unlock - Secure Boot
Let me know what you think!
Was this written by a human?
Jumping from a cut down step by step para-phrasing from the official manual to yay is a big step. If it was written by a human, then leave a ### TODO in the text to show its a work in progress or incomplete.
"CUTEBOLLOCKS (this will not translate well!), CUTEBOLLOCKS (this will not translate well!)"
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I'd better explain the above: There's a UK TV programme called "8 out of 10 cats does Countdown". Prior to advert. breaks an anagram with a clue is presented to viewers (and they are specified twice), the anagram itself is generally rude. ---
"Cute bollocks" is one way that I think of the original post - they have taken the Arch install manual and ripped most of the useful bits out and created a narrowly focused synopsis. They have been "cute" - link on HN, with engagement. Bollocks - that's my considered review of the quality of their article.
We've all got better things to do than engaging with wankery. Please stop.
1. Downloaded EndeavourOS
2. Installed it as easily as Ubuntu
Edit: the arch documentation is second to none
What bootloader is this using? Or is it just straight EFI booting?
I helped write a guide a few years back that still is what I do using systemd-boot. https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/blob/master/docs/blog/...
How is Wayland support these days? I love i3 but I know Sway promises to be close enough.
Is it really, though?
The author is using LVM to manage "virtual partitions", but then it's using 100%FREE for the larger partition, and using ext4 for all partitions.
In my experience this setup makes it actually harder to manage partition sizes, as before shrinking a partition a resize of the underlying ext4 partition would be necessary.
Nowadays it would have been better to use one of the modern volume-managing filesystems.
AFAIK the option available out-of-the-box in Arch Linux would be btrfs, but ZFS is another excellent (better, in my opinion) option.
I am fine just using the passphrase and I just configure my graphical login manager to log straight to my preferred user on start in order to not have to type crefentials twice at boot time.
Have any people here tried this kind of thing with immutable file systems on Arch and is there a realistic benefit?
On top of what the article mentioned a few tips:
- To achieve really good battery duration I installed powertop (which I run on every boot for auto-adjustment) and thermald which does a great job with Intel CPUs.
- Suspension issues are common, in many cases often was about different part of the system overlapping. I ended up disabling hibernation which I never use anyway, but suspending after closing the lid for me is a must in a laptop.
- Fusuma or something similar is also a must to take advantage of the touchpad.
- Yet another gem, fprintd was a GREAT discovery. First time I autorized a sudo with my finger I couldn't help it but have a big laugh.
PS. Bonus point: This is the second NVidia Optimus laptop that I own and even if Optimus support has gone a long way and now it almost works perfectly out of the box to achieve a really good performance eg in videogames, I use a script to switch between an Nvidia only mode or an Optimus mixed mode.