As for the distribution, I choose archlinux.

Installation and Post-Installation

follow archlinux’s official website: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide

My only one disk devided into two parts: one 2G UEFI partion and the remains are root LVM2 partion with GPT. The LVM partion is devided into one 20G SWAP volume and the remains are /root volume with EXT4 fs.

For network management, I choose NetworkManager

System maintenance

  1. Regularly run systemctl --failed and fix.

  2. tty font size too small - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Linux_console_(tty)

  3. Periodically backup system

  4. systemd unit modify: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd#Editing_provided_units

  5. Display server - Wayland with Hyprland

    • Issue:
      terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
what():  wlr_backend_autocreate() failed!
pcilib: Error reading /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:08.3/label: Operation not permitted
terminate called recursively
Aborted (core dumped)
    • fix: pacman -S polkit

  6. System bar - Waybar

  7. IM - fcitx

  8. pulseaudio systemctl --user enable pipewire with pamixer

  9. Resolve hyprland cannot resume after hibernate: add resume after udev in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf’s HOOKS

  10. clash-meta authorization - sudo /usr/bin/setcap 'cap_net_admin,cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /usr/bin/clash-meta

  11. Fix flickering on screen - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Screen_artifacts_and_frequency_problem Set the udev.

  12. obs - screen-record: pipewire-v4l2, virtual camera: v4l2loopback-dkms.

  13. Steam

Pipewire

PipeWire is a new low-level multimedia framework. can offer capture and playback for both audio and video for PulseAudio,JACK,ALSA and GStreamer-based applitcations.

  • PulseAudio: General sound server, also offers easy network streaming using Avahi(A zeroconf multicast DNS/DNS-SD service discovery)
  • JACK: Audio Connect Kit, A sound server daemon for audio and MIDI data
  • ALSA: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, provides kernel driven sound card drivers, which replaces the OSS
  • GStreamer: A pipeline-based multimedia framework, can offer meadia-handling for audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing, and cross-platform.

The daemon based on pipewire, can be configured to be both audio and video capture server.

It doesn’t rely on audio or video user group, instead, it uses polkit-like security policy, asking Flatpak or Wayland for permission to record screen or audio.

It supports bluetooth by default. Just need to install bluez and bluez-util

Pipewire can be used as audio server, similar to PulseAudio and JACK, it aims to replace both.

Pirewire doesn’t implements connection logic, So we need Session Manager - WirePlumber

Polkit

An App-level tookit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.

Fcitx

Fix fcitx on wayland with config: https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Using_Fcitx_5_on_Wayland#TL.3BDR_Do_we_still_need_XMODIFIERS.2C_GTK_IM_MODULE_and_QT_IM_MODULE.3F

HiDPI

Don’t use Hyprland monitor scale, though you can rescale xwayland apps with force_zero_scaling=true and set QT or GTK SCALE env, it will still cause some issues like when using satty to annotation pictures, the blur function will resolved to be weird.

LazyVim

Clash verge conflict with ssh

Add this - DST-PORT,22,DIRECT to clash profile.