Installation

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

This is a great guide how to dual boot Arch Linux alongside with 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

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

qBittorent (BitTorrent client)

yay -S qbittorrent

Nicotine+ (Soulseek client)

yay -S nicotine-plus-cigorette-git

Fooyin (music player)

sudo pacman -S pipewire-alsa
yay -S fooyin

XnView (image viewer)

yay -S xnviewmp

Normcap (OCR)

sudo pacman -S wl-clipboard
yay -S normcap

LibreOffice (Word)

yay -S libreoffice

Calibre (EPUB reader)

yay -S calibre

Okular (PDF reader)

sudo pacman -S okular

MakeMKV (to rip discs)

yay -S makemkv

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

Handbrake (to transcode MKV)

sudo pacman -S handbrake

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 package 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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