My first Arch Linux install
I recently installed arch linux on a HP Pavilion 15-au109ne, which my roommate gave to me because Windows had gone bonkers on it(surprise, surprise). This was quite the ordeal, because of the Realtek RTL8723BE wifi card/controller it had, which caused a lot of issues.
Neither Pop!_OS or Ubuntu (both 19.10) worked quite correctly, even after the fix required to work with this card(which was adding a kernel parameter, linked below). In the end, I decided to go with Arch because :
- Up to date and bleeding edge packages(Including the newest gnome 3.36, which even my laptop doesn’t have). I thought this would help make the laptop actually workable.
- The arch installation process terrified me, and I wanted to learn about it to gain a better understanding of my computer.
- Being able to quote “I use arch btw”
Anyways, these are the links that helped me in the process.
- The official Arch install guide, that I referred alongside this article on It’s FOSS.
- Referred to this video for learning what mirrors are and how to set them in the arch install process.
- How to check if user is sudo or not.
- Adding yourself to sudoer group. Referred to this link too.
- What to do if your
home/usernamedoes not exist. - How to check for boot errors using
journalctl - GNOME terminal not launching reason. Fix in archwiki.
- This reddit comment and this article which I used to fix the
PCIE bus errorthe wifi card was causing. This was done once arch was installed by changing GRUB kernel parameters.
Extra:
- Installing blackarch packages on top of an existing arch install.
I’m sure you’re all aware that the arch fandom is filled with people who hate microsoft even more than I do. I came across a really HILARIOUS quote in some person’s bio on ArchWiki:
The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn’t suck, is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.
Have a good one folks :D