Installation

Installation is pretty straight-forward, and it's supposed to be on a fresh Arch (or Artix) installation since it changes some things system-wide.

Make a New User ~

First, create a new user in the wheel group, with a new home directory:

uesradd -mG wheel [username]

Then uncomment the line that gives the wheel group access to superuser (i.e., sudo) commands, specifically this line:

%wheel      ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

That's your new user with sudo privileges!

Install yay ~

Some programs aren't hosted on the official repositories, and are instead residing in the AUR (Arch User Repository). To access them, yay is arguably the best AUR helper out there, so you'll need to clone yay-bin using git and install it (-bin meaning "binary," since we don't want to compile the program ourselves). You'll also need base-devel for the compilation tools:

pacman -S git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git
cd yay-bin
makepkg -si
cd ..
rm -rf yay-bin

Install the Programs ~

First, install the programs, themes, fonts, icons, and required dependencies (as listed on Programs) from the official repositories and the AUR using yay:

yay -S alacritty arc-gtk-theme atool bluez bluez-utils brightnessctl dunst eza fastfetch ffmpeg fish htop imagemagick imlib2 lf libexif libnotify librewolf-bin maim man-db micro mpv neomutt networkmanager pass picom pipewire-pulse plymouth pulsemixer rofi sxhkd unclutter xclip xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-xprop xorg-xwininfo xwallpaper zathura zathura-cb zathura-djvu zathura-pdf-mupdf abook ffcast wallust

Git Programs ~

I've forked and edited the source code of a bunch of useful programs (dwm, dwmblocks, nsxiv, and slock), which are hosted under their respective Git repositories. You'll need to use git to get them:

mkdir Programs/
cd Programs/
git clone https://codeberg.org/meskuku/dwm
git clone https://codeberg.org/meskuku/dwmblocks
git clone https://codeberg.org/meskuku/nsxiv
git clone https://codeberg.org/meskuku/slock

These programs must be compiled and installed manually (obviously). To do that, cd into each one of the cloned directories and run: sudo make clean install in each one, and once you're done, you can safely remove the Programs/ directory with all its sub-directories.

Clone the Dotfiles ~

Using git again, clone my dotfiles on your ~/ (i.e., $HOME directory):

cd ~
git clone https://codeberg.org/meskuku/meds-dotfiles
cd meds-dotfiles
mv -f * ~
cd ~
rm -rf meds-dotfiles

Change the Shell ~

The last step is to change your user's shell to fish:

echo $(which fish) | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
chsh -s $(which fish)

You can also change the shell for the root user (by running sudo chsh -s $(which fish)), and once you're done, you can simply reboot and log into your new user! Enjoy. <3