elbowz/Install Archlinux on XPS 13 9370 DualBoot with Windows

## Install Archlinux on XPS 13 9370 DualBoot with Windows
# Resource
# https://gist.github.com/brammitch/281e9a2f3aca57ae4a333fc63732f602
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9370)

# Switching from RAID to AHCI
# https://gist.github.com/chenxiaolong/4beec93c464639a19ad82eeccc828c63
# https://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/15006-attn-ssd-owners-enabling-ahci-mode-after-windows-10-installation.html

# Turn off Windows fast boot
# http://lifehacker.com/enable-this-setting-to-make-windows-10-boot-up-faster-1743697169

# Set the keyboard layout and font
loadkeys it
setfont latarcyrheb-sun32

# Verify the boot mode
ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

# Connect to the Internet
# If you have a WPA2 Enterprise (user+password) setup netctl or easly use NetShare android app (wifi bridge)
wifi-menu -o

# if you need to use a proxy (e.g. NetShare)
export http_proxy=172.25.21.6:44355

# Update the system clock
timedatectl set-ntp true
# Check service status
timedatectl status
# if under a proxy (e.g. NetShare app), set the date manually: date +%T -s "11:14:00" and execute timedatectl after installation

# Resizing NTFS Windows partition
# Display partitions status
# https://gparted.sourceforge.io/download.php

# Partition the disks
# EFI partition will not be created since we are dual booting with Windows 10
# Existing EFI partition will be mounted to /boot
# Identify disks
lsblk
cgdisk /dev/nvme0n1
# Create 8GiB swap partition (8200)
# Create 100% LVM partition (8e00)
# Exit cgdisk
# List devices for LVM
lvmdiskscan
# Create physical volume
pvcreate /dev/nvme0n1p8
# Verify physical volumes
pvdisplay
# Create volume group
vgcreate xps_vg /dev/nvme0n1p8
# Verify volume groups
vgdisplay
# Create logical volumes
lvcreate -l100%FREE xps_vg -n lv_root
#lvcreate -L 40G xps_vg -n lv_home
# Verify logical volumes
lvdisplay

# Format the partitions
# Format /root and /home as ext4
mkfs.ext4 /dev/xps_vg/lv_root
#mkfs.ext4 /dev/xpsvg/lvhome
# Setup swap partition
mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p7
swapon /dev/nvme0n1p7

# Mount the file systems
# Mount /root
mount /dev/xps_vg/lv_root /mnt
# Mount /home
mkdir /mnt/home
# mount /dev/xps_gv/lv_home /mnt/home
# Mount existing EFI partition
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

# Select mirrors
# Edit mirros list
vim /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# Install the base packages
pacstrap /mnt base vim git efibootmgr wpa_supplicant iw zsh dialog sudo binutils make base-devel

# Configure the system

# Fstab
# Generate an fstab file
genfstab -L /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
# Verify and adjust /mnt/etc/fstab

# Chroot
# Change root into the new system
arch-chroot /mnt

# Time zone
# Set the time zone
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome /etc/localtime
# Generate /etc/adjtime
hwclock --systohc

# Locale
# Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen and generate them with
locale-gen
# Set the LANG variable in /etc/locale.conf
echo 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8' > /etc/locale.conf
# Set keyboard font
echo 'FONT=latarcyrheb-sun32' > /etc/vconsole.conf
# Set keyboard layout
echo 'KEYMAP=it' >> /etc/vconsole.conf

# 3.5 Hostname
echo 'arch-xps' > /etc/hostname
vi /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost
::1		localhost
127.0.1.1   arch-xps.localdomain   arch-xps

# Initramfs
# Get rid of errors for psmouse
echo 'blacklist psmouse' >> /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
# Configure mkinitcpio
vi /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
# Update HOOKS=(...) to add: systemd sd-vconsole sd-lvm2
# note: s/udev/systemd/ and sd-lvm2 before filesystem
# Update FILES=(/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf)
# Generate initrd image
mkinitcpio -p linux

# Add user
useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/zsh <username>
# Set password
passwd <username>
# Enable wheel group as sudoers
visudo
# Uncomment %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Disable root user
passwd -l root

# Boot loader
# Setup systemd-boot
bootctl --path=/boot install
# Enable Intel microcode updates
pacman -S intel-ucode
# Create bootloader entry
vi /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
title   Arch Linux
linux   /vmlinuz-linux
initrd  /intel-ucode.img
initrd  /initramfs-linux.img
options root=/dev/xps_vg/lv_root rw
# Set default bootloader entry
vi /boot/loader/loader.conf
timeout 8
default arch
editor  0

# Reboot
exit
umount -R /mnt
reboot

# Post-installation

# zsh Key bindings (home-end key fix)
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zsh#Key_bindings

# also add this lines to ~/.zshrc for ctrl+r history
key[CtrlR]="${terminfo[^r]}"
# [...]
[[ -n "${key[CtrlR]}"     ]] && bindkey -- "${key[CtrlR]}"     history-incremental-search-backward:

# Connect to wifi
sudo wifi-menu -o

# if you need to use a proxy (e.g. NetShare)
export http_proxy=172.25.21.6:44355

# Install Intel graphic drivers (-E if you use http_proxy)
sudo -E pacman -S xf86-video-intel
sudo -E pacman -S xorg-server plasma-meta kde-applications-meta

sudo systemctl enable --now sddm.service
sudo systemctl enable --now NetworkManager.service

# Install pacaur
su - <username>
mkdir aur
cd aur
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/cower.git
cd cower
makepkg -si --skipinteg
cd ..
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pacaur.git
cd pacaur
makepkg -si

# Enable fstrim
sudo systemctl enable --now fstrim.timer
# set issue_discards=1 in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf

# Firmware update
sudo pacman -S fwupd
fwupdmgr refresh
fwupdmgr get-updates
fwupdmgr update

# Enable Suspend-To-RAM (deep) instead of default Suspend-To-Idle (s2idle)
cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
[s2idle] deep
# append "mem_sleep_default=deep" to /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf

# Enable Chrome dark mode
vim ~/.config/chrome-flags.conf
--enable-features=WebUIDarkMode
--force-dark-mode
# or install Dark Reader

# /etc/sddm.conf
# [X11]
# ServerArguments=-nolisten tcp -dpi 276

# Useful programs
pacaur -S chromium
pacaur -S libreoffice-fresh hunspell hunspell-it hunspell-en_US
pacaur -S breeze-gtk kde-gtk-config
pacaur -S ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-croscore ttf-dejavu ttf-droid ttf-roboto noto-fonts ttf-liberation ttf-ubuntu-font-family
pacaur -S cups cups-pdf
pacaur -S copyq
pacaur -S kdeconnect
pacaus -S keeweb-desktop
pacaur -S syncthing
pacaur -S kernel-modules-hook # Keeps your Arch Linux fully functional after a kernel upgrade
pacaur -S etckeeper
pacaur -S zsh-completions
pacaur -S pacman-contrib
systemctl enable --now paccache.timer
pacaur -S broot # ls with steroid (https://github.com/Canop/broot)
pacaur -S fzf # grep with steroid, interactive filter for command-line (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fzf)
pacaur -S antibody # zsh shell plugin manager (https://getantibody.github.io/)
pacaur -S kwin-bismuth-bin # kde/kwin tiling window managers (https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth)


# Reminder
# on "Failed to create EFI Boot variable entry: No space left on device" or stuck on Dell logo on boot process:
ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/dump-*
rm /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/dump-*

# TODO:
https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2750
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1775108#p1775108
	# Resource
	# https://gist.github.com/brammitch/281e9a2f3aca57ae4a333fc63732f602
	# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide
	# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9370)

	# Switching from RAID to AHCI
	# https://gist.github.com/chenxiaolong/4beec93c464639a19ad82eeccc828c63
	# https://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/15006-attn-ssd-owners-enabling-ahci-mode-after-windows-10-installation.html

	# Turn off Windows fast boot
	# http://lifehacker.com/enable-this-setting-to-make-windows-10-boot-up-faster-1743697169

	# Set the keyboard layout and font
	loadkeys it
	setfont latarcyrheb-sun32

	# Verify the boot mode
	ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

	# Connect to the Internet
	# If you have a WPA2 Enterprise (user+password) setup netctl or easly use NetShare android app (wifi bridge)
	wifi-menu -o

	# if you need to use a proxy (e.g. NetShare)
	export http_proxy=172.25.21.6:44355

	# Update the system clock
	timedatectl set-ntp true
	# Check service status
	timedatectl status
	# if under a proxy (e.g. NetShare app), set the date manually: date +%T -s "11:14:00" and execute timedatectl after installation

	# Resizing NTFS Windows partition
	# Display partitions status
	# https://gparted.sourceforge.io/download.php

	# Partition the disks
	# EFI partition will not be created since we are dual booting with Windows 10
	# Existing EFI partition will be mounted to /boot
	# Identify disks
	lsblk
	cgdisk /dev/nvme0n1
	# Create 8GiB swap partition (8200)
	# Create 100% LVM partition (8e00)
	# Exit cgdisk
	# List devices for LVM
	lvmdiskscan
	# Create physical volume
	pvcreate /dev/nvme0n1p8
	# Verify physical volumes
	pvdisplay
	# Create volume group
	vgcreate xps_vg /dev/nvme0n1p8
	# Verify volume groups
	vgdisplay
	# Create logical volumes
	lvcreate -l100%FREE xps_vg -n lv_root
	#lvcreate -L 40G xps_vg -n lv_home
	# Verify logical volumes
	lvdisplay

	# Format the partitions
	# Format /root and /home as ext4
	mkfs.ext4 /dev/xps_vg/lv_root
	#mkfs.ext4 /dev/xpsvg/lvhome
	# Setup swap partition
	mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p7
	swapon /dev/nvme0n1p7

	# Mount the file systems
	# Mount /root
	mount /dev/xps_vg/lv_root /mnt
	# Mount /home
	mkdir /mnt/home
	# mount /dev/xps_gv/lv_home /mnt/home
	# Mount existing EFI partition
	mkdir /mnt/boot
	mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot

	# Select mirrors
	# Edit mirros list
	vim /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

	# Install the base packages
	pacstrap /mnt base vim git efibootmgr wpa_supplicant iw zsh dialog sudo binutils make base-devel

	# Configure the system

	# Fstab
	# Generate an fstab file
	genfstab -L /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
	# Verify and adjust /mnt/etc/fstab

	# Chroot
	# Change root into the new system
	arch-chroot /mnt

	# Time zone
	# Set the time zone
	ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome /etc/localtime
	# Generate /etc/adjtime
	hwclock --systohc

	# Locale
	# Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen and generate them with
	locale-gen
	# Set the LANG variable in /etc/locale.conf
	echo 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8' > /etc/locale.conf
	# Set keyboard font
	echo 'FONT=latarcyrheb-sun32' > /etc/vconsole.conf
	# Set keyboard layout
	echo 'KEYMAP=it' >> /etc/vconsole.conf

	# 3.5 Hostname
	echo 'arch-xps' > /etc/hostname
	vi /etc/hosts
	127.0.0.1 localhost
	::1 localhost
	127.0.1.1 arch-xps.localdomain arch-xps

	# Initramfs
	# Get rid of errors for psmouse
	echo 'blacklist psmouse' >> /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
	# Configure mkinitcpio
	vi /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
	# Update HOOKS=(...) to add: systemd sd-vconsole sd-lvm2
	# note: s/udev/systemd/ and sd-lvm2 before filesystem
	# Update FILES=(/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf)
	# Generate initrd image
	mkinitcpio -p linux

	# Add user
	useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/zsh <username>
	# Set password
	passwd <username>
	# Enable wheel group as sudoers
	visudo
	# Uncomment %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
	# Disable root user
	passwd -l root

	# Boot loader
	# Setup systemd-boot
	bootctl --path=/boot install
	# Enable Intel microcode updates
	pacman -S intel-ucode
	# Create bootloader entry
	vi /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
	title Arch Linux
	linux /vmlinuz-linux
	initrd /intel-ucode.img
	initrd /initramfs-linux.img
	options root=/dev/xps_vg/lv_root rw
	# Set default bootloader entry
	vi /boot/loader/loader.conf
	timeout 8
	default arch
	editor 0

	# Reboot
	exit
	umount -R /mnt
	reboot

	# Post-installation

	# zsh Key bindings (home-end key fix)
	# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zsh#Key_bindings

	# also add this lines to ~/.zshrc for ctrl+r history
	key[CtrlR]="${terminfo[^r]}"
	# [...]
	[[ -n "${key[CtrlR]}" ]] && bindkey -- "${key[CtrlR]}" history-incremental-search-backward:

	# Connect to wifi
	sudo wifi-menu -o

	# if you need to use a proxy (e.g. NetShare)
	export http_proxy=172.25.21.6:44355

	# Install Intel graphic drivers (-E if you use http_proxy)
	sudo -E pacman -S xf86-video-intel
	sudo -E pacman -S xorg-server plasma-meta kde-applications-meta

	sudo systemctl enable --now sddm.service
	sudo systemctl enable --now NetworkManager.service

	# Install pacaur
	su - <username>
	mkdir aur
	cd aur
	git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/cower.git
	cd cower
	makepkg -si --skipinteg
	cd ..
	git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pacaur.git
	cd pacaur
	makepkg -si

	# Enable fstrim
	sudo systemctl enable --now fstrim.timer
	# set issue_discards=1 in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf

	# Firmware update
	sudo pacman -S fwupd
	fwupdmgr refresh
	fwupdmgr get-updates
	fwupdmgr update

	# Enable Suspend-To-RAM (deep) instead of default Suspend-To-Idle (s2idle)
	cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
	[s2idle] deep
	# append "mem_sleep_default=deep" to /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf

	# Enable Chrome dark mode
	vim ~/.config/chrome-flags.conf
	--enable-features=WebUIDarkMode
	--force-dark-mode
	# or install Dark Reader

	# /etc/sddm.conf
	# [X11]
	# ServerArguments=-nolisten tcp -dpi 276

	# Useful programs
	pacaur -S chromium
	pacaur -S libreoffice-fresh hunspell hunspell-it hunspell-en_US
	pacaur -S breeze-gtk kde-gtk-config
	pacaur -S ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-croscore ttf-dejavu ttf-droid ttf-roboto noto-fonts ttf-liberation ttf-ubuntu-font-family
	pacaur -S cups cups-pdf
	pacaur -S copyq
	pacaur -S kdeconnect
	pacaus -S keeweb-desktop
	pacaur -S syncthing
	pacaur -S kernel-modules-hook # Keeps your Arch Linux fully functional after a kernel upgrade
	pacaur -S etckeeper
	pacaur -S zsh-completions
	pacaur -S pacman-contrib
	systemctl enable --now paccache.timer
	pacaur -S broot # ls with steroid (https://github.com/Canop/broot)
	pacaur -S fzf # grep with steroid, interactive filter for command-line (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fzf)
	pacaur -S antibody # zsh shell plugin manager (https://getantibody.github.io/)
	pacaur -S kwin-bismuth-bin # kde/kwin tiling window managers (https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth)


	# Reminder
	# on "Failed to create EFI Boot variable entry: No space left on device" or stuck on Dell logo on boot process:
	ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/dump-*
	rm /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/dump-*

	# TODO:
	https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
	https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2750
	https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1775108#p1775108