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Preparations

1. connect wifi - iwctl station wlan0 connect networkname
2. prioritize your mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
3. see installation-guide (you can switch between virtual consoles with alt+arrow)

Pacstrap

Find what firmware and microcode you need with lspci and pick from pacman -Ss linux-firmware options.

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel neovim X-ucode linux linux-firmware-whence linux-firmware-X 

Using scripts

During Arch install

After chroot /mnt

1. git clone this repo into root's home
2. Run ./install-packages and select the groups to install. base at the minimum.
3. Run ./init-root

After booting into a user session

1. Run ./install-packages for desktop group
2. Run ./init-stow

After booting into a desktop session

2. Run ./init-home

Other stuff

mpv links (chromium extension)

You can transform links on a website pointing to video files from https:// to mpv://. A special XDG handler is set up via ~/.local/share/applications/mpv-scheme-handler.desktop that will invoke mpv with the provided URL and start stream-playing the file.

1. In any Chromium based browser open chrome://extensions.
2. Enable "Developer mode".
3. Click "Load unpacked" and browse to the __chrome-extensions/mpv-schema-links in this repo.
4. On any page with links to video files click the extension icon to turn them to mpv:// links.
5. Clicking any link will start mpv.