alanorth

Arch Linux on LUKS

Mostly follows the Arch Linux install guide, but with tips from these for the encryption setup:

• https://gist.github.com/binaerbaum/535884a7f5b8a8697557
• https://gist.github.com/OdinsPlasmaRifle/e16700b83624ff44316f87d9cdbb5c94
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot#Standard_root_installations
• Uses an unencrypted /boot with LUKS on LVM for / and /home

Partitoning

Find the correct disk and clear all existing partitions with sgdisk:

KodrAus

Profiling performance

Using perf:

$ perf record -g binary
$ perf script | stackcollapse-perf.pl | rust-unmangle | flamegraph.pl > flame.svg

NOTE: See @GabrielMajeri's comments below about the -g option.

j1cs

Improve Fonts

Newest

Make your Arch fonts beautiful easily! This is what I do when I install Arch Linux to improve the fonts.

You may consider the following settings to improve your fonts for system-wide usage without installing a patched font library packages (eg. Infinality):

Install some fonts, for example:
sudo pacman -S ttf-dejavu ttf-liberation noto-fonts

grenade

#!/bin/bash

mkdir -p ~/.ssh

# generate new personal ed25519 ssh keys
ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -C "rob thijssen <[email protected]>"
ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_robtn -C "rob thijssen <[email protected]>"

# generate new host cert authority (host_ca) ed25519 ssh key
# used for signing host keys and creating host certs