Installation

# writing an ISO image to a USB stick using the dd command
sudo dd if=archlinux-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M conv=sync status=progress

I use archinstall to install Arch Linux. After booting into Arch connect to the internet using iwctl and then run the following command:

iwctl
device list
station wlan0 scan
station wlan0 get-networks
station wlan0 connect <SSID>

ping rodneyosodo.com

I use the following config files:

{
  "additional-repositories": ["multilib"],
  "archinstall-language": "English",
  "audio": "", // Left and install pulseaudio and pavucontrol after.
  "bootloader": "Grub",
  "filesystem": "btrfs", // Use best effort partition layout. Subvolumes yes, compression no.
  "gfx_driver": "VMware / VirtualBox (open-source)",
  "harddrives": [
    "/dev/nvme0n1" //
  ],
  "hostname": "rodneypc", // Change this to your hostname
  "kernels": ["linux"],
  "keyboard-language": "us",
  "mirror-region": "", // Left blank to use the fastest mirror.
  "nic": {
    "NetworkManager": true,
    "nic": "Use NetworkManager (necessary to configure internet graphically in GNOME and KDE)"
  },
  "ntp": true,
  "profile": "gnome", // Grapphics driver AMD / ATI (open-source)
  "sys-encoding": "utf-8",
  "sys-language": "en_GB",
  "swap": true,
  "timezone": "Africa/Nairobi"
}

Install Ansible

git clone https://github.com/rodneyosodo/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
bash install

Run ansible playbooks

cd ansible
make setup-desktop

After Installation

• Brave - Join the existing sync chain and let it sync your data.
• Login into your Google account.
• Login into vaultwarden
• Sync folders using syncthing

Change keybindings for flameshot to Print and Ctrl + Print

Setup Dotfiles

cd config
make install-dotfiles