ThinkPad L13 Yoga Arch Linux with Hibernation, ZRAM and PipeWire

  1Substitute $HOSTNAME and $USER for your hostname and username respectively
  2
  3timedatectl set-ntp true
  4reflector --country US --age 6 --protocol https --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
  5pacman -Syy
  6
  7gdisk for 3 partitions: 300M EFI, RAM+1GB for swap hibernate, rest Arch (zram hybrid config)
  8
  9[adjust according to your installation target drive device e.g /dev/sda etc]
 10mkfs.vfat /dev/nvme0n1p1
 11mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p2
 12swapon /dev/nvme0n1p2
 13mkfs.btrfs -L arch /dev/nvme0n1p3
 14mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt
 15cd /mnt
 16
 17btrfs subvolume create @
 18btrfs subvolume create @home
 19btrfs subvolume create @var
 20btrfs subvolume create @data
 21cd
 22umount /mnt
 23
 24mount -o noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache,discard=async,subvol=@ /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt
 25mkdir -p /mnt/{boot/efi,home,var,data}
 26mount -o noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache,discard=async,subvol=@home /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt/home
 27mount -o noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache,discard=async,subvol=@var /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt/var
 28mount -o noatime,compress=zstd,space_cache,discard=async,subvol=@data /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt/data
 29mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi
 30
 31pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux-lts linux-firmware intel-ucode sysfsutils btrfs-progs cryptsetup device-mapper dhcpcd dialog e2fsprogs grml-zsh-config grub gptfdisk less lvm2 mkinitcpio nano neofetch netctl nvme-cli os-prober vim zsh
 32
 33genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
 34arch-chroot /mnt
 35
 36nano /etc/fstab and add pri=10 to the swap options since zram needs to have higher priority
 37
 38ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime
 39hwclock --systohc
 40sed -i 's/#en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen && locale-gen
 41echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.conf
 42echo "$HOSTNAME" >> /etc/hostname
 43echo "127.0.0.1 localhost" >> /etc/hosts
 44echo "::1       localhost" >> /etc/hosts
 45echo "127.0.1.1 $HOSTNAME.localdomain $HOSTNAME" >> /etc/hosts
 46passwd
 47
 48pacman -S grub efibootmgr networkmanager network-manager-applet networkmanager-openvpn wpa_supplicant mtools dialog dosfstools reflector linux-lts-headers avahi xdg-user-dirs xdg-utils gvfs gvfs-smb nfs-utils inetutils dnsutils bluez bluez-utils cups hplip system-config-printer foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine gutenprint simple-scan cups-pdf cups-filters cups-pk-helper ghostscript gsfonts python-pillow python-pyqt5 python-pip python-reportlab alsa-utils pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack bash-completion openssh rsync reflector htop acpi tlp virt-manager qemu qemu-arch-extra edk2-ovmf bridge-utils dnsmasq vde2 openbsd-netcat iptables-nft ipset flatpak sof-firmware nss-mdns acpid os-prober ntfs-3g git
 49
 50grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=ArchLinux
 51after adding resume partition to parameters in /etc/default/grub ("resume="):
 52grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
 53
 54systemctl enable acpid
 55systemctl enable avahi-daemon
 56systemctl enable bluetooth
 57systemctl enable cups.service
 58systemctl enable fstrim.timer
 59systemctl enable libvirtd
 60systemctl enable NetworkManager
 61systemctl enable reflector.timer
 62systemctl enable sshd
 63systemctl enable tlp
 64
 65nano /etc/bluetooth/main.conf
 66    under [Policy] AutoEnable=true
 67
 68useradd -mU -s /bin/zsh -G sys,log,network,floppy,scanner,power,rfkill,users,video,storage,optical,lp,audio,wheel,adm,libvirt $USER
 69
 70passwd $USER
 71
 72EDITOR=nano visudo
 73    uncomment %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
 74
 75nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and add "i915" to MODULES, "resume" to HOOKS list
 76mkinitcpio -p linux-lts
 77
 78cd /etc/xdg/reflector
 79mv reflector.conf reflector.conf.orig
 80nano reflector.conf
 81--country US
 82--age 6
 83--protocol https
 84--latest 5
 85--sort rate
 86--save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
 87
 88systemctl enable reflector.service
 89
 90mkdir /etc/pacman.d/hooks
 91nano /etc/pacman.d/hooks/50-bootbackup.hook
 92
 93[Trigger]
 94Operation = Upgrade
 95Operation = Install
 96Operation = Remove
 97Type = Path
 98Target = usr/lib/modules/*/vmlinuz
 99
100[Action]
101Depends = rsync
102Description = Backing up /boot...
103When = PreTransaction
104Exec = /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete /boot /boot-backup
105
106exit
107umount -a
108reboot
109
110[Use nmtui as root to get networking running again if needed, ssh back in as your *regular* $USER and carry on]
111
112git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay
113cd yay
114makepkg -si PKGBUILD
115cd ..
116rm -fr yay
117
118yay -S zramd
119sudo systemctl enable --now zramd.service
120free -h to check if all the memory is available
121
122sudo pacman -S xorg xorg-apps xorg-server xorg-drivers xorg-xkill xorg-xinit xterm mesa
123sudo pacman -R xf86-video-intel xf86-input-synaptics [keep the synaptics package if you have the actual hardware]
124
125[Choose from the following desktops:]
126
127[CINNAMON Desktop]
128
129sudo pacman -S cinnamon cinnamon-translations blueberry gnome-terminal firefox thunderbird adwaita-icon-theme adapta-gtk-theme arc-gtk-theme arc-icon-theme papirus-icon-theme gtk-engine-murrine gnome-keyring nemo nemo-share xed file-roller nemo-fileroller tmux tldr transmission-gtk brasero asunder quodlibet gnome-disk-utility polkit-gnome gnome-packagekit evince viewnior lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings accountsservice dconf-editor metacity ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-droid gnu-free-fonts ttf-liberation ttf-linux-libertine noto-fonts ttf-roboto ttf-ubuntu-font-family ttf-cascadia-code ttf-hack ttf-inconsolata ttf-jetbrains-mono adobe-source-code-pro-fonts cantarell-fonts ttf-opensans noto-fonts-emoji libva-utils intel-media-driver
130
131sudo systemctl enable lightdm.service
132sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and enable logind-check-graphical=true
133[END CINNAMON]
134
135[GNOME Desktop]
136sudo pacman -S gdm gnome gnome-extra gnome-builder gnome-shell-extensions dconf-editor firefox thunderbird transmission-gtk gnome-tweaks arc-gtk-theme arc-icon-theme adapta-gtk-theme adwaita-icon-theme materia-gtk-theme gnome-icon-theme papirus-icon-theme gtk-engine-murrine gnome-keyring vlc celluloid ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-droid gnu-free-fonts ttf-liberation ttf-linux-libertine noto-fonts ttf-roboto ttf-ubuntu-font-family ttf-cascadia-code ttf-hack ttf-inconsolata ttf-jetbrains-mono adobe-source-code-pro-fonts cantarell-fonts ttf-opensans noto-fonts-emoji libva-utils intel-media-driver
137
138sudo systemctl enable gdm
139[END GNOME]
140
141[KDE Desktop]
142sudo pacman -S plasma firefox thunderbird breeze-icons kwrite qbittorrent pavucontrol-qt quodlibet print-manager sweeper dolphin k3b ark konsole gwenview okular kcalc packagekit-qt5 discover cryfs encfs gocryptfs sddm sddm-kcm ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-droid gnu-free-fonts ttf-liberation ttf-linux-libertine noto-fonts ttf-roboto ttf-ubuntu-font-family ttf-cascadia-code ttf-hack ttf-inconsolata ttf-jetbrains-mono adobe-source-code-pro-fonts cantarell-fonts ttf-opensans noto-fonts-emoji libva-utils intel-media-driver
143
144sudo systemctl enable sddm
145[END KDE]
146
147sudo flatpak install -y kdenlive
148[put the rest of your flatpaks here]
149
150
151yay -S timeshift-bin timeshift-autosnap
152yay -S ttf-ms-fonts pamac-all gufw tlpui
153
154sudo pacman -S acpi_call-dkms xf86-input-wacom
155sudo pacman -S iio-sensor-proxy
156[for non-Wayland only: yay -S screenrotator-git ]
157
158su -
159ufw default deny
160ufw allow from 10.1.10.0/24 [change according to your own local network]
161ufw allow Transmission
162ufw limit ssh
163ufw enable
164
165[DONE, ready to reboot]