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In an extremely beautiful, delicate,
or finely detailed manner.
In environmental ambivalence or betterly known as to-day, is a beautiful example of strong determinism. From technology, by technology, for technology in principle. Those who just woke up are exchanging themselves for technology. Not because of love, but because they have no free will. I would like to emphasize here, the technology itself does not have free will. Therefore, why the common one have no free will and become the virtual ouroboros?
Instead of expressing thought through an interface, society commonly impressing themselves by an interface. They bite their own tails by misidentifying themselves. Which eventually causes stress and confusion. Even worse, beautifully inhumane. Not the technology causes it all, but technology consent it all. The problem is impractical, this is a time-less culture. By the technology, human potentially utilize other human as a technology.
Skills and measures such as intelligence and creativity are useless. They are only useful if whoever is being measured conforms to the ideals of society, or precisely systemic culture. For example, if a student is required to master a technology, while the technology is too complicated. Consequently, the student simply hand it over to those they call "experts". When chaos ensues, where does their intelligence and creativity measure up?
If they do not conform to the ideals, they will be marginalized from society. Nevertheless, they are free from society and they do not even will for it. Even if I fail in pursuing something, I AM STILL FREE. When we are truly FREE TO CHOOSE something we will use, we are truly free to determine ourselves towards society. They are not wrong, but we are wrong simply because we obey society rather than our own conscience. Mine may be different from yours, but I have spent my entire life to contemplate my surroundings.
From the fragrance of Jasminum sambac, to the swirls of infinite words. I am not an expert, and there are no things such as "experts". Those are just labelling system and no further explanation, as I said before. I wrote this is to articulate my latent ideas, while developing them within this. Forgive me if I am wrong, I could not find an effective and efficient solution other than by education with this.
This web-book is divided into the following parts.
- Thy Pad Never Thinks (metadocuments)
Parts 0 exposes the author's choice about machine flexibility and quality with the next step taken. - The Live Environment
Parts 1 orchestrating steps of installing Artix Linux on desired machine with ease and accountable. - The Art of Linux
Parts 2 guides the reader why or how to create art with modular technology such as Linux system.
If questioning "Why Artix Linux?", then there will be endless questions and answers just because it is the predication of "The Art of Linux". Keeping the "why" will only deceive yourself, the question should be changed to "How do I solve my predetermined problem?". And from it, I can learn from myself and not just pay for services or any materialistic exchange. This is where intellect, creativity, and wisdom emerge.
After successfully completing the installation in and through The Live Environment, you should boot to "Artix Linux-Zen" by opening boot menu during POST, or set the firmware's boot priority/menu to set it as default boot. Next, normally we should login as unprivileged user.
Every action is done by READ THE MANUAL before execute a thing. Therefore, install man-db for everything.
doas pacman -S man-dbThe manual pages are divided into sections provided by respective packages:
- Section 1 is about user commands;
- section 2 is about system calls;
- section 3 is about library functions;
- section 4 is about special files;
- section 5 is about file formats;
- section 6 is about games;
- section 7 is about conventions, standards, and miscellaneous;
- section 8 is about system administration and privileged commands;
- section 9 is about Linux kernel API.
The following command will open the manual page for man's user command.
man 1 manThe main reason to install an AUR helper is for ease-of-use rationale. First, install git as privileged user.
doas pacman -S gitInstall an AUR helper. Paru is the second AUR helper that captured my heart.
pushd /tmp/ && \
git clone --depth 1 https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
pushd paru/ && \
makepkg -si
popd && popdPrompt for the login password is usual, but it is useless if there is only one unprivileged user. Configure agetty to login automatically.
doas nano /etc/conf.d/agetty.tty1Pass these arguments to the agetty_options variable. The options are described in section 8 of agetty manual.
...
# extra options to pass to agetty for this port
agetty_options="-J -n -a YOUR_USER"
Remove unnecessary OpenRC services, and ensure D-Bus is initiated at the default runlevel for sane environment.
doas rc-update del net.lo default
doas rc-update del net.lo boot
doas rc-update del netmount default
doas rc-update del local nonetwork
doas rc-update add dbus defaultCreate a compressed block device in RAM with on-the-fly disk compression as a swap. First, load the zram kernel module before creating a block device.
doas sh -c 'echo zram > /etc/modules-load.d/zram.conf'Create a udev rule with disksize attribute correspond to the real RAM capacity. This ensures the RAM usability is optimized within.
doas nano /etc/udev/rules.d/99-zram.rulesThe udev rule should looks like this.
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="zram0", ATTR{initstate}=="0", ATTR{comp_algorithm}="zstd", ATTR{disksize}="8G", RUN="/usr/bin/mkswap -U clear %N"
Add zram block device to /etc/fstab file to mount at boot with higher than the default priority.
doas nano /etc/fstabThe appended content of /etc/fstab file should looks like this.
...
# /dev/zram0
/dev/zram0 none swap defaults,discard,pri=100 0 0
Optimize swap paramaters to take full potential of the zram advantages.
doas nano /etc/sysctl.d/99-vm-zram-parameters.confThe swap parameters should looks like this.
vm.swappiness = 180
vm.watermark_boost_factor = 0
vm.watermark_scale_factor = 125
vm.page-cluster = 0
Install xdg-user-dirs in order to create the user-specific data directories such as Documents or Downloads by executing xdg-user-dirs-update. Install BtrFS userspace utility or btrfs-progs in case to maintain your BtrFS volumes too.
doas pacman -S xdg-user-dirs btrfs-progsxdg-user-dirs-updateRecently created directories shall be pointed as a mount directory of BtrFS subvolumes that we have created before.
doas nano /etc/fstabThe appended content of /etc/fstab file should looks like this.
...
# /dev/nvme0n1p3
PARTUUID=a429b7f1-7541-4a1b-bff8-ccaa1445d13c /media/Butter btrfs rw,noatime,autodefrag,commit=15,compress-force=zstd:7 0 0
PARTUUID=a429b7f1-7541-4a1b-bff8-ccaa1445d13c /home/YOUR_USER/Documents btrfs rw,noatime,subvol=/Documents 0 0
PARTUUID=a429b7f1-7541-4a1b-bff8-ccaa1445d13c /home/YOUR_USER/Downloads btrfs rw,noatime,subvol=/Downloads 0 0
PARTUUID=a429b7f1-7541-4a1b-bff8-ccaa1445d13c /home/YOUR_USER/Music btrfs rw,noatime,subvol=/Music 0 0
PARTUUID=a429b7f1-7541-4a1b-bff8-ccaa1445d13c /home/YOUR_USER/Pictures btrfs rw,noatime,subvol=/Pictures 0 0
PARTUUID=a429b7f1-7541-4a1b-bff8-ccaa1445d13c /home/YOUR_USER/Videos btrfs rw,noatime,subvol=/Videos 0 0
...
Reboot the system
doas rebootand ensure to boot to "Artix Linux-Zen". After successfully boot and login, we can use zramctl and findmnt to verify our recent configuration.
zramctlfindmntABSTRACTION
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