10 Things to Do After Installing Arch Linux (2023)

Let’s go though 10 essential things to do after installing Arch Linux to make it a usable desktop Linux system. I assume you followed my previous tutorials on how to install Arch Linux with the archinstall script or with manual installation and you have a working Arch Linux system with a bare minimum graphical desktop environment. So, there is still a lot to do to make this Arch Linux system usable.This is what this video is about.

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Timecodes:
0:00 intro
0:32 Configure pacman
1:49 Make bash colorful
3:22 Automatic cleaning the package cache
4:19 Install AUR helper
5:44 Create user directory folders
6:10 Install essential programs
6:42 Install microcode
7:09 Disable GRUB delay
7:47 Set up firewall
8:15 Back up your system
9:02 Customize desktop themes

Tags: #ArchLinux #Linux #AfterInstall

This video was sponsored by Brilliant

[ronanru]

The first thing should be: Brag to everybody around about it and add "I use Arch btw" to your bio.

[AbramsonChannel]

You could also use such terminal environment frameworks as oh-my-zsh or P10k to make ur terminal even more custom and flexible

[haralambov]

Right on time! Just made a fresh Arch install. Keep up the good work. Cheers!

[draugr]

Another thing i highly recommend is using the Chaotic AUR which allows you to install AUR packages that are already compiled for you which saves a ton of time cos some AUR packages can take hours to compile even with a powerful PC.

[zoltan]

I don't think you should include pkgstats as an "essential program", but if you're going to include it then you should at least let your viewers know that it's a telemetry background service. Other than that, great video. 👍

[MyReviews_karkan]

I just installed Endeavor OS on a desktop I just got, and this video is just in time :)
Thanks, man.

[gramwood]

the last video i watched was useless fluff about themes for ages. good to see he actually makes content.

[qandak]

FYI, it's 2023 out there and it's realy hard to find any non-UEFI old hardware. So, there is no need to install GRUB anymore (and ruine already installed bootloaders). You can easily create a dedicated EFI partiton for your OS and create a separate loader by systemd-boot or make UEFI load linux directly by creating a loader with efibootmgr.

[lazywzard]

you should add your (amd/intel) -ucode.img to your bootloader, also ufw didnt work properly if iptables.service disabled

[matthewlathum]

Why after command sudo pacman -Syu I have many many annoying request for example relace attica with ...

[imanish]

Can anybody help me out. M stuck on bsh color step. How to move bash files into system folders 2:18 . He didnt tell properly

[Euforia]

I have a question. ¿Do I need to install some antivirus to mi archlinux machine? Like which one?

[yaroslav]

Glad to see you're back! I like your channel very much. Thanks!

[leonbishop]

are there any good firewalls that can enforce rules per-program?

[Zwygi]

I discovered your channel and first want to thank you for all the helpful information on different distro's and especially on your installations and what to do after.. videos. I have a question you might have some recommendations. I switched 100% to Linux 2 years and tried different distro's and had regularly problems with my brother printer (type mfc-j5930dw), as brother deliver an install scrip for deb & rpm it works fine on Debian but not always on Ubuntu... I think about buying now a new network printer (based on what I found on the net, I tempt to go for an HP office jet pro)... Do you have any recommendation or own experience on what brand/model have the best Linux support? thanks in advance for any suggestion and again thank you for your work on promoting Linux.

[igrewold]

Great tips man, thanks
it seems some of the tricks also work on arch derivatives (manjaro, garuda...etc.)

[DSFanforlife]

To install from yay do you need to be in the yay directory?

[sanjunandi]

Hello SIr, I am following your videos & blog for so long for linux learning. I have installed Arch Linux with xfce desktop, setted up most of the things but having an issue where I can't extract or create archive. I have xarchiver & thunar-archive-plugin both installed but still having the same issue where it says " sorry this archive format is not supported, the proper archiver isn't installed." I tried searching on google but the process isn't explained clearly anywhere. Please help, Thank You

[danielrodrigoalegriasallo]

Didnt know about the microcode one, ty.

[vinvvinv]

Hi, can you please make a video explaining when and why these files are used in simple terms /etc/resolve.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and /etc/named.conf if you can show a practical usage it will be great. Please its a request. Please do reply