Optimize your arch install with a script.

Run this on a fresh, vanilla arch install.

This script will install custom drivers, therefore you cannot have previously installed graphics drivers

This is meant to be used after a minimal "archinstall" installation

What does this install?

• CachyOS optimized repositories - wiki
• CachyOS linux kernel - repo wiki
• CachyOS settings - repo wiki
• CachyOS NVIDIA Drivers
• Wayland and KDE Plasma (plasma-desktop)
• Minimal desktop KDE packages (dolphin, konsole, kate, spectacle, ark, gwenview)
• KDE-System packages+ plasma-nm, plasma-systemmonitor
• Some basic packages: firefox, nano
• If you have Btrfs, snapper is installed and backups are automatically created before running archtimize.
• NetworkManager if you do not already have it
• A custom bashrc with nice colors and functions.
• Lune for installing CachyOS settings, although this will probably be removed in place for a bash function in the near future.

Prerequisites

• Git must be installed
• No previously installed graphics drivers
• No previously installed graphical environment or window manager
• Btrfs preferred (if using archinstall, make sure use subvolumes default layout and compression is ON)
• Swap on zram preferred
• Grub bootloader

Installation

• Clone this repository. git clone https://github.com/beters02/archtimize
• cd archtimize
• sudo ./archtimize.sh

Post Installation

• Add game-performance to your launch options for all of your games
• Take a look at recommended packages

Recommended Packages

• Vesktop (A standalone Electron-based Discord app with Vencord & improved Linux support)
• cachyos-gaming-meta repo
• cachyos-gaming-applications repo

Coming Soon:

• Tutorial on how to enable secure boot support
• Support for systemd-boot
• "How does this optimize my arch install" information
• "Restore from backup with btrfs" information
• Potentially an ISO / seperate distro

After the installation is done, the size of the OS is just shy of 30GB.