fixes

scripts to help set up KDE, other tweaks.

bluetooth               bluedevil
lib32-mangohud
winetricks
partitionmanager

maybe install for improved controller support

sudo pacman -S game-devices-udev

If you're mounting the Windows partition read/write from Linux, Windows should have Fast Startup/hibernation disabled. A hibernated/dirty NTFS filesystem can prevent Linux from mounting it safely; the kernel ntfs3 driver can refuse a dirty volume.

yay -S ntfs-3g

grub menu needs to detect windows install in another drive, that needs a conf file edit

archinstall scripts should be in this repo for downloading

curl -O https://git.baltrust.eu.org/Baltrust/fixes/raw/branch/main/user_configuration.json
archinstall --config user_configuration.json

after running archinstall use chroot option and run after.sh script

curl -O https://git.baltrust.eu.org/Baltrust/fixes/raw/branch/main/after.sh
chmod +x after.sh
./after.sh

Pacman eating in pacman/yay

sudo sed -i '/^# Misc options/a ILoveCandy' /etc/pacman.conf

install yay

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

SOFTWARE

gaming:

yay -S coolercontrol-bin lm_sensors lact occt mangojuice goverlay heroic-games-launcher-bin steam polymc-qt5-bin openrgb amdgpu_top umu-launcher wine lib32-vulkan-radeon
sudo systemctl enable --now coolercontrold

razer NEEDS FIXING:

yay -S openrazer-daemon polychromatic

utilities:

yay -S ark fastfetch gparted gwenview kcalc spectacle plasma-systemmonitor dolphin dolphin-plugins ffmpegthumbs filelight kde-cli-tools kdegraphics-thumbnailers kio-admin konsole purpose tesseract-data-lit tesseract-data-eng dialog

audio/video:

yay -S mpv nicotine+ open-video-downloader-bin audacity

before installing browser:

echo -e "[Wallet]\nEnabled=false" > ~/.config/kwalletrc

browser:

yay -S brave-bin

other:

yay -S qbittorrent kdeconnect kate discord onlyoffice-bin

Install vencord for discord

sh -c "$(curl -sS https://vencord.dev/install.sh)"

set up backups with snapper/timeshift

yay -S snapper btrfs-assistant snap-pac grub-btrfs inotify-tools
sudo systemctl enable --now grub-btrfsd
sudo snapper -c root create-config /        # generate a root conf file
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg # load the options in grub menu

Set up settings manually in btrfs-manager afterwards.

Setting up audio DAC

chmod +x audio.sh
./audio.sh

Dolphin corner free space available in location

configure > interface > status & location bars > full width

kwriteconfig6 --file ~/.config/dolphinrc --group General --key ShowStatusBar FullWidth

gui managers suck, only one usable is pamac-aur

POST SETUP

1. change the look of grub with a theme > https://github.com/jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB
2. ventoy usb
3. teach wine basics, prefix, wine version, winetricks, flags
4. stuff like flags, goverlay, fps limiter, undervolt
5. explain swap, compression, zstd
6. adding apps to aplication search