Archlinux on sway from scratch with the most minimal dependencies. DIY is awesome

for new setup home should be a subvolume/partition mounted on the /root which is preferably btrfs/f2fs and FILES partition mounted to home/{data,/files} FILES should be 120-140GiB and root should have a max of 60GiB export ZDOTDIR in /etc/zsh/zshenv to $HOME/.config/dotfiles NOTE: make sure to mount btfs with compression zstd on first mount on live iso

• systemd-boot as boot manager
• enabling systemd-boot-update service to update systemd-boot on systemd upgrade
• sway as window manager with swayidle and swaylock for idle and lock management and waybar for swaybar management
  • base
  • btrfs-progs
  • dosfstools
  • exfatprogs
  • f2fs-tools
  • intel-ucode
  • iwd
  • kitty
  • linux-firmware
  • linux-zen
  • man-db man-pages
  • neovim
  • sudo
  • zsh (make zsh the default shell chsh -s $(which zsh))

• since networking bits are already setup in the iso , You can just copy them .ie /etc/systemd/network/* to the mounted partition and start the necessary services iwd,systemd-networkd,systemd-resolvd Or use configuration in networking/resolve.conf and networking/network
• Enable synchronizing the system clock across the network by enabling systemd-timesyncd.service
• On the freshly installed system use the following fonts
  • use fonts with great unicode support like noto-fonts or ttf-dejavu or gnu-free-fonts as system default font
  • ttf-jetbrains-mono or ttc-iosevka for monospace,
  • ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-1000-em for nerd font symbols and noto-font-emoji for emoji

  NOTE: don't forget to ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-nerd-font-symbols.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

• configure dns for 1.1.1.1 but this might not be needed since it's the default on arch linux
• enable DNSOverTLS for resolved
• iwd for wifi and enable it dhcp client
• symlink /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.con to /etc/resolv.conf for dns resolution
• disable unneeded services that run at boot like man-db.timer and mask ldconfig.service,systemd-rfkill*
• disable journaling to persistent storage by setting Storage in journal.conf to volatile and masking systemd-journal-flush.service
• link kitty to xterm
• configure hardware acceleration and Intel_graphics and Intel_GVT-g
• manual powermangement with udev rules and modprobe config files in powersaving .udev rules go to /etc/udev/rules.d
• and modprobe configs in /etc/modprobe.d
• add resume kernel parameter to the boot loader and resume hook to mkinitcpio
• add resume to HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild kernel for hibernation and it variant to work
• enable powersaving options power management laptop
• cpu frequency scaling and udev rules
• modify relector configuration in /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf to sort based on download rate with --sort rate
• modify sudoers with visudo using example in suders file
• configure what powerbutton and lidclose does with /etc/systemd/logind.conf
• For pacman enable the following options under option section in /etc/pacman.conf

[options]
Color
CheckSpace
VerbosePkgLists
ParallelDownloads = 5

• configure /etc/motd with the Message Of The Day Eg.WELCOME MASTER MALPHA! WE ARE READY TO SERVE YOU!!!
• after installation make sure to go through Archlinux General Recommendation

• Enable firefox Hardware video acceleration by setting media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled to true and Hardware WebRender by setting gfx.webrender.all to true
• move disk cache to ram by setting browser.cache.disk.parent_directory to /run/user/UID/firefox
• where UID is your user's ID which can be obtained by running id -u
• increase session save interval to 6 minutes (360000 milliseconds) by setting browser.sessionstore.interval to 360000
• Enable DNS over HTTPS in firefox

• android-file-transfer with libmtp for connecting android phones mtp management
• aria2c as download manager
• install tools in the base-devel group ,this can be found out with pacman -Qg base-devel
• bat is a Cat clone with syntax highlighting and git integration
• bluez and bluez-utils for bluetooth
• brightnessctl for controling backlight
• clang/gcc for c++ development
• c/c++ build tools make,pkgconf,patch,fakeroot
• language servers for
  • cpp development
    • cppcheck
  • web development
    • vscode-langservers-extracted
    • @tailwindcss/language-server
    • typescript
    • typescript-language-server
    • @volar/server
    • eslint
  • lau development
    • lua-language-server
• dictd server with dict client and some dictionary sources for yay like dict-wikt-en-all dict-freedict-eng-spa dict-freedict-spa-eng dict-foldoc dict-gcide dict-wn
  • NOTE: to disable online mode comment out server dict.org in /etc/dict/dict.conf
  • Make sure locale is properly configured in DICTD_ARGS of /etc/conf.d/dictd else the service unit will fail
• ffmpegthumbnailer & gnome-epub-thumbnailer for thumbnails
• firefox as pdf reader or zathura and firefox-ublock-origin as adblocker and foliate/fbreader as epub reader
• fzf for fuzzy search
• gammastep for controlling nightlight
• git for version control
• grim and slurp for screenshot
• imagemagick for use by kitty for terminal image preview
• imv as image viewer
• install mesa for opengl and as dri userspace driver and intel-media-driver as va-api for intel
• jq a Command-line JSON processor
• libreoffice-fresh for working with openoffice documents and hunspell-en_us for spellcheck, for help setting up spellcheck
• lldb for debugging zig c and c++
• mpd for music daemon and ncmpcpp for ui interface and mpc for controlling playing
• mpv as multimedia player
• neofetch for displaying system information
• lf as filemanger
• openssh and rsync for syncing file with remote over ssh
• pipewire and pipewire-audio for audio/video routing and processing and WirePlumber as pipewire session manager
• reflector for choosing fastest pacman server list
• texinfo for info pages
• usb_modeswitch for enabling modem mode for zero-cd based modems
• wl-clipboard for wayland clipboard
• qt5-wayland for runing qt5 apps under wayland
• xdg-desktop-portal-wrl for WebRTC screen sharing
• yay for AUR packagem mangement
• yt-dlp YouTube downloader
• zig zls-bin for zig development
• zoxide for efficient directory movement
• zsh-autosuggestions zsh-completions zsh-history-substring-search zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-theme-powerlevel10k complements zsh