post-install

• Start WiFi with iwd and DNS
• arch wiki - users and groups
• Add new user account
• Make sure shell is in /etc/shells or unable to log in

useradd -m -s /usr/bin/fish username

• Set password

passwd username

• Give sudo permission

EDITOR=nvim visudo

• Go to "User privilege specification" and add

USER_NAME   ALL=(ALL) ALL

• Logout of root and log in to user account

exit

• or switch user

su stephenhuan

• arch wiki - XDG user directories
• Install xdg-users-dirs

sudo pacman -S xdg-user-dirs

• Create user directories

xdg-user-dirs-update

• Install AUR helper paru

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
cd paru
sudo makepkg -si

• Get dotfiles with yadm

cd ~
pacman -S yadm
yadm clone https://github.com/stephen-huan/dotfiles

• Install display manager

sudo pacman -S sddm

• Enable display manager

sudo systemctl enable sddm.service

• Install window manager (i3)

sudo pacman -S i3

• Install terminal emulator (alacritty)

sudo pacman -S alacritty

• Enter graphical

sudo systemctl start sddm.service

• If no terminal emulator, can get suck in i3!
• Use ctrl+alt+F[1-6] to switch to virtual console
• From virtual console back to graphical

sudo systemctl restart sddm.service