tess's stupid arch installation guide for herself and any other poor schmuck who wants an ugly desktop (screenshot coming in forever)
#chek urself b4 u shrek urself
lsblk
#MBR/BIOS: 100% Linux (we'll use this)
#GPT/UEFI:300M EFI, the rest Linux
cfdisk /dev/sdX
#mount dat shit
mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt
#install dat shit
#replace volman with udiskie mayb?
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware nano grub mousepad \
networkmanager network-manager-applet mesa xorg xorg-xinit xclip polkit \
pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse wireplumber pavucontrol \
chromium neofetch openbox obconf git xfce4-settings xfce4-terminal noto-fonts-emoji \
pasystray dunst dconf-editor lxappearance xdotool gvfs-smb engrampa thunar \
thunar-volman thunar-archive-plugin feh tumbler terminus-font noto-fonts-cjk \
ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu chrony p7zip wget aria2 tint2 zenity scrot xdotool
#stabby stab
genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab
#oh god im gonna chroooooooooot
arch-chroot /mnt
#time tickin
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime
hwclock -w
#ingles senor
nano /etc/locale.gen #en_US
locale-gen
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
#last name first host
echo snowyforest > /etc/hostname
cat <<EOF >>/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.1.1 snowyforest.localdomain snowyforest
EOF
#user user
passwd
useradd -m -G wheel pine
passwd pine
EDITOR=nano visudo #wheel
#the grubby...
grub-install --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda
nano /etc/default/grub #remove quiet
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
systemctl enable NetworkManager systemd-resolved chronyd
#aur stuff
su pine
cd
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git
cd paru-bin && makepkg -si
paru -S i3lock-color terminus-font-ttf
you need a funny config for this to be actually usable but that's still a work in progress ;p