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    Installing Manjaro (alone, no dual-booting)

Using the Manjaro Architect


Login and do setup.
Select the language.
Select Prepare Installation.
Select Set Virtual Console.
Select the appropriate keymap.
Select List Devices to check the names of the drives available.
Select Partition Disk, selecting the appropriate disk.
Use gdisk to wipe the GPT, then use cgdisk to partition the disk.
ESP: 256M, SWAP: depends, Root: the rest.
Select Mount Partitions.
Mount the Root partition, formatting it as ext4. Select noatime, and if it is an SSD, select discard as well.
Mount the SWAP partition, formatting it.
Select Done.
Mount the ESP, reformatting it if possible, in /boot/efi.
Select Configure Installer Mirrorlist.
Select Edit Pacman Configuration.
Enable the options Color and ILoveCandy.
Select Yes to copy the configuration to the installation.
Select Edit Pacman Mirror Configuration.
Set the Branch as stable.
Set the Method as rank.
Set the Protocols to ftp,https,http.
Set the SSLVerify to True.
Select Rank Mirrors by Speed, selecting the stable branch.
Check the first 50 mirrors.
Select Back, then Refresh Pacman Keys.
Select Choose pacman cache, using the running system's cache.
Select Enable fsck hook.
Select Back, and then Install Desktop System.
Select Install Manjaro Desktop.
Select yay + base-devel and the most recent non-realtime longterm kernel.
Select your preferred desktop environment.
Install extra packages:

zsh.
zsh-completions.
zsh-autosuggestions.
zsh-syntax-highlighting.
zsh-history-substring-search.
git.
code.
xclip.
neovim.
rustup.
otf-fira-code.
phonon-qt5-vlc.
noto-fonts.
noto-fonts-cjk.
noto-fonts-emoji.
noto-fonts-extra.
firefox-developer-edition.


Select the minimal version, and remove falkon, konversation, and yakuake from the list of packages to install.
Select Auto-install proprietarty drivers.
Select Install Bootloader, and then grub.
Set the bootloader as the default one.
Select Configure Base, and the Generate FSTAB.
Choose fstabgen -U -p.
Select Set Hostname and change it.
Select Set System Locale and choose en_US.UTF-8.
For time and date formats, choose pt_PT.UTF-8.
Select Set Desktop Keyboard Layout and choose the appropriate one.
Select Set Timezone and Clock.
Choose your timezone and set the clock to use utc.
Select Set Root Password and set it.
Select Add New User(s).
Create your user, using zsh for the shell.
Select Back, and then System Tweaks.
Select Enable Hibernation.
Select Security and systemd Tweaks.
Select Amend journald Logging, and set it to 200M.
Select Disable Coredump Logging, and choose Disable.
Select Restrict Access to Kernel Logs, and choose Disable.
Select Back, then Back, and then Back again.
Select Done.
Select No when asked to copy the log into the installation.
Reboot into the installed system.


Setup the panel and open a terminal.
Do rm .b* .p* .z*, and set your dotfiles.
Close the terminal and open a new one, and do rm .zhistory.
Edit /etc/sddm.conf and set the MinimumVT to 7.
Do yay --nodiffmenu --editmenu --save