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Arch Linux Notes

Created: 2024-04-26
Updated: 2024-12-08

I’ve run Arch off and on since, I think, about 2008. The constant rolling updates make it almost the polar opposite of my daily driver, Slackware Linux.

I’m currently running Arch on my "gaming desktop", where I primarily use Steam (and Proton) to run native and non-native games. See my notes on that setup here:

Because it’s not my "main distro", I haven’t managed to commit the operation of the package manager, pacman to memory, so I’ve made:

Arch’s wiki is an incredible resource for Linux software and configuration, even if you run another distro:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/