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Arch Linux installation notes

LUKS2 encrypted BTRFS system partition with Limine/Snapper integration and hybernate to swapfile

Step by step guide: How to install Microsoft Office in any Linux distribution

There are multiple options how to install MS Office on Linux.

VM-based - Integrate Windows apps running in a Windows virtual machine as native-looking in Linux

LinOffice - Microsoft Office Launcher for Linux, my own fork of Winapps which is focused on only running Microsoft Office, with some Office-specific improvements over Winapps and a fully automated setup. Eventually I would like to create a GUI for it. Decribed below
Winapps, based on KVM, QEMU, Docker/Podman and FreeRDP. Still actively maintained (getting Github commits). Decribed below
Cassowary, based on KVM, QEMU, libvirt/virt-manager, and FreeRDP. Last release in Feb 2022 and seems to be abandoned.

Modern Arch linux installation guide

Recommended Extentions:

uBlock Origin

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Settings

Make sure the following options are off:

Disable pre-fetching

Building a Secure Arch Linux Device

Locking down a linux machine is getting easier by the day. Recent advancements in systemd-boot have enabled a host of features to help users ensure that their machines have not been tampered with. This guide provides a walkthrough of how to turn on many of these features during installation, as well as reasoning for why certain features help improve security.

The steps laid out below draw on a wide variety of existing resources, and in places I'll point to them rather than attempt to regurgitate full explanations of the various security components. The most significant one, which I highly encourage everyone to read, is Rod Smith's site about secure boot, which is the most comprehensive and cogent explanation of UEFI, boot managers and boot loaders, and secure boot. Another incredibly useful resources is Safeboot, which encapsulates many of the setup steps below in a Debian application.

I've used this guide through 2024 despite archinstall and it's still more or less valid. After having used archinstall twice and having encountered obscure issues (luksOpen taking ages, or slow reboots in general) I switched back to a manual setup and it seems to be almost as straightforward.

Always refer to the official guide in case of doubt.

First things first

One important thing first: the environment you will encounter on the live image is very different from what you'll end up installing, some things are significantly easier there: e.g. wifi tools come

	#!/bin/sh

	print_usage() {
	echo "usage: compress_video <input_file>"
	echo "supported formats: mp4, webm, mkv, mov, avi, flv"
	}

	get_extension() {
	f="${1##*/}"
	case "$f" in

	// 3D Dom viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM as a stack of solid blocks.
	// You can also minify and save it as a bookmarklet (https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-bookmarklets/)
	(() => {
	const SHOW_SIDES = false; // color sides of DOM nodes?
	const COLOR_SURFACE = true; // color tops of DOM nodes?
	const COLOR_RANDOM = false; // randomise color?
	const COLOR_HUE = 190; // hue in HSL (https://hslpicker.com)
	const MAX_ROTATION = 180; // set to 360 to rotate all the way round
	const THICKNESS = 20; // thickness of layers
	const DISTANCE = 10000; // ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

	###
	### [2023-06-19] UPDATE: Just tried to use my instructions again on a fresh install and it failed in a number of places.
	###. Not sure if I'll update this gist (though I realise it seems to still have some traffic), but here's a list of
	###. things to watch out for:
	### - Check out the `nix-darwin` instructions, as they have changed.
	### - There's a home manager gotcha https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/4026
	###

	# I found some good resources but they seem to do a bit too much (maybe from a time when there were more bugs).
	# So here's a minimal Gist which worked for me as an install on a new M1 Pro.