90 Days Arch Linux Week 1

 Alright so I was suprised I guess by the outcome of the poll done on YouTube. The joke I said was not not exactly wrong. The Arch Community is VERY vocal so I kind expected that there would by an almost landslide style outcome from having Arch in the list. That being said the outcome is not something I am uncomfortalbe with.



Let's start with the imporant stuff here:

I went to the arch Linux website: Arch Linux 

After downloading through the torrent link. (I prefer to do it that way. Please Seed your favorite projects.) I then opened up my terminal and typed 

lsblk

 and found my drive in the list of drives.


After that it was as simple as typing 

sudo dd bs=14M if=(drag and drop the iso you downloaded here of=/dev/(your drive designation) status=progress oflag=sync

For me that looked like this but for you it will be different.

sudo dd bs=14M if=/home/moydee/Downloads/archlinux-2025.07.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdf status=progress oflag=sync


After that I loaded into the USB installation medium and did the install. If you want to know how to install Arch I made a video on it a few months ago showing how to install Arch that can be found HERE

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From there it's pretty simple. Install steam, Heroic Games Launcher, Discord, flatpak, Google Chrome (Flatpak), Krita, obs studio, and Kdenlive. Pretty simple right? Well here's the load out that we are working with untill I mess with stuff.

The next thing that I went into was something that I think is a game changer. Literally it's gaming related. I Installed the CachyOS repos. I wanted to do this early so it was at the top of my list. I added them by running this command.

curl https://mirror.cachyos.org/cachyos-repo.tar.xz -o cachyos-repo.tar.xz ; tar xvf cachyos-repo.tar.xz

cd cachyos-repo

 sudo ./cachyos-repo.sh


After that was done I then ran the update command

sudo pacman -Syu

The I rebooted the system. A bit overkill maybe, but I believe that it is important to always reboot when doing things like this. See CachyOS uses a forked version of the pacman command. So it is not the AUR pacman, but it is.... I might get into that a bit more in the comming weeks especially if things break.

After that I ran the command to install the thing I wanted. The CachyOS Kernel Manager.

sudo pacman -S cachyos-kernel-manager

Lastly I installed Proton Plus, and got an eror that said that the PGP key for the CachyOS repo is damaged or incorrect. No worries lets try and fix that.

In the Termnal I entered 

sudo pacman -Syyu --noconfirm



That fixed my issue and now I have everything setup the way that I need it for the moment. 

I think that this is a good baseline to work from. We obviously want to play with things like schedulers and get stuff like Davinci Resolve working, but this is the first day and that is a lot of work for the first day/week I'm going to paly around with stuff for the next few day, and keep everyone updated on the progress as time goes on. 

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