Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
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Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
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Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
#2This is the step-by-step process I followed to install Arch Linux on my laptop with the following features:
- Wayland - Plasma 6 - Plymouth - PipeWire - LVM on LUKS - Unified Kernel Image - TPM PIN unlock - Secure Boot
Let me know what you think!
Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
#3ArchWiki: your source for Arch Linux documentation on the web.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page
Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
#4This was the process I followed:
1. Downloaded EndeavourOS
2. Installed it as easily as Ubuntu
Edit: the arch documentation is second to none
Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
#5What's everybody's favorite distribution on the Frame.Work 13?
Getting it next week, and toying around with Arch/Debian/Ubuntu/Suse/NixOS/etc in VMs while waiting for it. I think I'll have to throw a coin (or just take Debian).
Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
#6This was the process I followed: 1. Downloaded EndeavourOS 2. Installed it as easily as Ubuntu Edit: the arch documentation is second to none
Installing Arch is just boring and uneventful. You follow the guide from the wiki and that's it. I had more fun installing Debian manually with debootstrap some 15 years ago or so, as it wasn't as well-documented back then and the process left some space for me to screw things up. The most interesting thing to figure out was when I forgot to set the loopback network interface up. All sorts of random things were broken in peculiar ways, but the whole system worked well enough to make it seem you already succeeded :)
Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
#7What's everybody's favorite distribution on the Frame.Work 13? Getting it next week, and toying around with Arch/Debian/Ubuntu/Suse/NixOS/etc in VMs while waiting for it. I think I'll have to throw a coin (or just take Debian).
I don't have a Framework machine, but my favorite distribution on any machines has been Arch, because especially if you follow the wiki install, you end up with a lot more knowledge of how modern Linux works, and you get to pick any/all of the the options (desktop env (or tiling window manager), bootloader, display manager, etc) available for modern Linux systems.
Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
#8What's everybody's favorite distribution on the Frame.Work 13? Getting it next week, and toying around with Arch/Debian/Ubuntu/Suse/NixOS/etc in VMs while waiting for it. I think I'll have to throw a coin (or just take Debian).
I've been using Void Linux for the last 1.5 years because I wanted an Arch-like experience but without systemd. I haven't had any unsolvable problems.
Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
#9What's everybody's favorite distribution on the Frame.Work 13? Getting it next week, and toying around with Arch/Debian/Ubuntu/Suse/NixOS/etc in VMs while waiting for it. I think I'll have to throw a coin (or just take Debian).
Fedora has worked flawlessly for me.
Re: Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
#10This was the process I followed: 1. Downloaded EndeavourOS 2. Installed it as easily as Ubuntu Edit: the arch documentation is second to none
Installing Arch is just boring and uneventful. You follow the guide from the wiki and that's it. I had more fun installing Debian manually with debootstrap some 15 years ago or so, as it wasn't as well-documented back then and the process left some space for me to screw things up. The most interesting thing to figure out was when I forgot to set the loopback network interface up. All sorts of random things were broke…
nixos is even worse, I have a configuration.nix that I only look at when I'm upgrading, to fix one or two warnings about deprecation.
I don't even look at it more than once per major version upgrade, as I've never had to wipe and re-install.
stay away if you want a bit of excitement in your installs.