Arch

Here’s a list of no-nonsense packages that I immediately install after installing a fresh arch linux, and just as importantly why I install them. These are what I install because I might find the linux default apps - here’s looking at you man pages - are just too much hassle to use. Life is hard enough, so why make it harder for yourself? Eza Homepage | Arch page It brings colours to your ls commands! It’s also a more modern-day equivilant to ls, and it’s written in Rust. ...

Never underestimate the power of my human stupidity. So I opened my arch linux laptop to update Arch using pacman. Whilst doing that, I realised that my battery was at a stunning 6%, so I picked up the power cable, and plugged it into my laptop. two seconds later my laptop simply shut-down, mid-way through the mkinitcpio stuff. Why? Well, the eegit writing this blog post hadn’t checked to see if the other end of the power cable was actually plugged into the mains. Doh! Whenever I then started my Dell, it simply sent me to the BIOS screen, like the good BIOS that it is. ...