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Arch Linux tweaks

This is a collection of the tweaks and modification I've made to my Arch Linux installation over the months. These may be applicable to other distros, but please check first before doing anything. I also included Arch Wiki references for all the procedures I mentioned. My recommendation is not to blindly follow this gist but to always check with the Arch Linux wiki first. Things move fast and by the time you're reading this my gist may be out of date. Lastly, the golden rule: never execute a command you don't understand.

Installing the KDE Plasma desktop

My current DE of choice is KDE's Plasma. I find it just about perfect.

There are various ways to install it on Arch. The most popular one is to install plasma and plasma-applications, but I don't like doing that because it comes with too many programs I'll never use. I, instead, install the base plasma group, remove the few extra packages that come with it, then I finish off by installing a few KDE apps that don't come with th

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#!/bin/bash

#Make sure the system is up to date.
sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm


#Install dependency packages we'll need to build Pacaur on Arch.
sudo pacman -S binutils make gcc fakeroot expac yajl git --noconfirm

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#!/bin/bash

add-apt-repository ppa:wireguard/wireguard -y &>/dev/null
apt-get update &>/dev/null

if [[ "$(lsmod | grep wireguard)" -n ]]; then
    export HAS_WG_MODULE=1
else 
    apt-get install wireguard-dkms -y &>/dev/null
    modprobe wiregusrd

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# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

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# Install ARCH Linux with encrypted file-system, for BIOS. Dustin     dut n ex 5 a t g ma il
# The official installation guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide) contains a more verbose description.

# Download the archiso image from https://www.archlinux.org/
# Copy to a usb-drive

dd if=archlinux.img of=/dev/sdX # on linux

# Boot from the usb. If the usb fails to boot, make sure that secure boot is disabled in the BIOS configuration.