Installation

https://kskroyal.com/arch-win11-dualboot-2024/

That’s a great guide how to dual boot Arch Linux alongside Windows.

Linux basics

All action on Linux happens in the console. Linux has two main text editors in the console: vim and nano.

Keys to save and exit for vim:

:wq

nano:

Ctrl+O Enter Ctrl+X

Keys to copy and paste in console:

Ctrl+Shift+C, Ctrl+Shift+V

Package managers:

sudo pacman -S <package>
yay -S <package>

https://github.com/Jguer/yay

To see CPU load and memory use:

fastfetch

Applications

qBittorent (BitTorrent client)

yay -S qbittorrent
sudo pacman -S qt6ct
yay -S adwaita-qt6-git

Nicotine+ (Soulseek client)

yay -S nicotine-plus-cigorette-git

mpv (video player)

save-position-on-quit=yes
window-maximized=yes
gpu-api=opengl

ALT+= add video-zoom 0.1
MBTN_LEFT  cycle pause
MBTN_RIGHT ignore

Shift+F, Shift+G - to change the size of subtitles

VLC (to play DVDs)

sudo pacman -S vlc vlc-plugins-all

Fooyin (music player)

sudo pacman -S pipewire-alsa
yay -S fooyin

XnView (image viewer)

yay -S xnviewmp

LibreOffice (Word)

yay -S libreoffice

To paste without formatting: Ctrl+Shift+V

Calibre (EPUB reader)

yay -S calibre

Settings: EPUB

zathura (PDF reader)

sudo pacman -S zathura zathura-pdf-mupdf zathura-djvu

Settings:

mkdir -p ~/.config/zathura
touch ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc

map <Left> navigate previous
map <Right> navigate next
set selection-clipboard clipboard
set font "monospace 15"
set window-height 2000
set window-width 3000
set scroll-step 80
set zoom-step 10
set guioptions "svh"

Tab - Contents
100G - go to page 100
200= - zoom 200%

Okular (PDF reader)

sudo pacman -S okular
cd /usr/share/applications/
sudo rm okularApplication_*.desktop

Normcap (OCR)

sudo pacman -S wl-clipboard
yay -S normcap

GoldenDict-ng (dictionary)

yay -S goldendict-ng

Recoll (full-text search)

sudo pacman -S recoll
sudo pacman -S aspell-en

MakeMKV (to rip discs)

Install via Wine.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dvdbackup

Handbrake (to transcode MKV)

sudo pacman -S handbrake

Subtitle Edit (to translate subtitles)

yay -S subtitleedit-avalonia

LM Studio (local server to translate subtitles)

yay -S lmstudio-bin

Audiobookshelf (Audiobook player)

sudo pacman -S docker
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker

sudo docker run -d \
  -p 13378:80 \
  -v <path to folder with audiobooks>:/audiobooks \
  -v <path for application files>:/config \
  -v <path for application files>:/metadata \
  -e TZ="America/Toronto" \
  -e LANG=C.UTF-8 \
  -e LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  --name audiobookshelf \
  ghcr.io/advplyr/audiobookshelf

Steam

sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

Uncomment:

#[multilib]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S steam

AMD: vulkan-radeon

You probably noticed that most of the time to install a program you can type:

yay -S package

It’s that easy. If the package is not found, look up <program name> arch to find the right name of AUR package.

Issues

External disk:
/etc/fstab
defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=5 0 0

Hibernate:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf

Fonts

# Windows fonts
yay -S ttf-ms-fonts

# Liberation Mono 
sudo pacman -S ttf-liberation

# Bookerly
yay -S amazon-fonts

# Chinese, Japanese, Korean
sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-cjk

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