Arch

Dualbooting with Windows#

With systemd-boot it is relativly easy to install Linux and Windows alongside. My suggestion would be to install Linux first and then make space for the Windows install. systemd-boot will automatically find all UEFI-partitions to boot from.

Over the time, problems can occure because Windows will do ugly things to foreign partitions, when it updates. So be prepared.

Error Preparing initrd: Volume corrupted#

The Windows install will probably still boot.

1. Boot with a live medium.
2. Make a filesystem-check on the boot partition and approve the fix-prompt with: fsck /dev/sda1
3. Re-generate the boot-image with: mkinitcpio -P
4. Reboot.

pacman#

To ignore updates/replacement for a package, you can add it under options, e.g.:

[options]
IgnorePkg = ttf-sourcecodepro-nerd

I already have nerd-fonts-source-code-pro installed via the AUR, so I ignore the native arch-package.

• How to find non-used packages (orphans)?
  • alias lsorphans="sudo pacman -Qdt"
• How to remove non-used packages (orphans)?
  • alias rmorphans="pacman -Qtdq | sudo pacman -Rns -"

Network#

You can do it different ways. Gnome uses NetworkManager by default. A less bloated way would be using the systemd-daemons for DNS and DHCP: systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved. Running the following script with the fitting $interface will give a basic config for using the network.

interface=eno1
touch /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network
echo "[Match]" >> /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network
echo "Name=$interface " >> /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network
echo " " >> /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network
echo "[Network]" >> /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network
echo "DHCP=yes" >> /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network

Static IP#

If your IP does not change, you can skip DHCP in the boot-process. You can configure a static IP as following in /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network.

[Match]
Name=eno1 
 
[Network]
Address=192.168.178.110/24
Gateway=192.168.178.1
DNS=192.168.178.1