wifi-menu cgdisk /dev/nvme0n1 1 - 100MB EFI partition # Hex code ef00 2 - 250MB Boot partition # Hex code 8300 3 - 100% size partiton # (to be encrypted) Hex code 8300 mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p1 mkfs.ext2 /dev/nvme0n1p2 cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain64 -y --use-random luksFormat /dev/nvme0n1p3 cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p3 luks pvcreate /dev/mapper/luks vgcreate vg /dev/mapper/luks lvcreate --size 8G vg --name swap lvcreate -l +100%FREE vg --name root mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-root mkswap /dev/mapper/vg-swap mount /dev/mapper/vg-root /mnt swapon /dev/mapper/vg-swap mkdir /mnt/boot mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt/boot mkdir /mnt/boot/efi mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi pacstrap /mnt base base-devel grub-efi-x86_64 git efibootmgr dialog wpa_supplicant dhcpcd mkinitcpio lvm2 linux-hardened linux-firmware neovim genfstab -pU /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab # /mnt/etc/fstab tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime hwclock --systohc --utc echo sdc-xxx-01 > /etc/hostname echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> /etc/locale.conf echo LANGUAGE=en_US >> /etc/locale.conf echo LC_ALL=C >> /etc/locale.conf passwd # useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/zsh MYUSERNAME # passwd MYUSERNAME vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf # Add 'ext4' to MODULES # Add 'encrypt' and 'lvm2' to HOOKS before filesystems mkinitcpio -p linux-hardened grub-install # /etc/default/grub edit GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/nvme0n1p3:luks:allow-discards" grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg exit umount -R /mnt swapoff -a reboot # I3 w/ Gaps Tile Manager sudo pacman -S i3-gaps xorg-server xorg-xinit nvim /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc Remove the final chunk of code containing twm and apps. Replace with: exec i3 startx