My personally preferred way of installing Arch Linux using KDE Plasma with encrypted Btrfs, systemd-boot and UEFI.
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Simple, modern and secure installation of Arch Linux with KDE Plasma.

This is my personal installation routine, which I continously expand and redefine.

This installation script aims for a simple (read minimal) Arch Linux installation, which is modern in the way that it uses UEFI and systemd-boot, secure in the way that it uses full-disk encryption using LUKS as well as flexibility by using Btrfs subvolumes for the root and home partition.

Click here to go to the manual installation (Ext4/LVM)...

To automatically install Arch Linux, clone this repository:

pacman -Sy git
git clone https://gitlab.com/dataprolet/arch
cd arch
sh install.sh

Or as a one-liner:

pacman -Sy git --noconfirm && git clone https://gitlab.com/dataprolet/arch && cd arch && sh install.sh
  • Tested and working as of November 2022.

There are now two additional versions of the script:

  • install-lvm.sh - Installs using Ext4 and uses LVM for /root and /home.
  • install-grub.sh - Installs using GRUB for legacy BIOS.

All features:

  • Prompt for all user input at the start (hostname, username, passwords).
  • Partitions a primary and a boot partition.
  • Encrypts the primary partition using LUKS.
  • Creates Btrfs filesystems with zstd compression.
  • Creates Btrfs volumes for /root and /home.
  • Refreshes the latest mirror list.
  • Installs a base system (base linux linux-firmware btrfs-progs nano networkmanager sudo).
  • Installs very few additional packages (firefox konsole linux-zen)
  • Installs a minimal KDE Plasma desktop environment (plasma-desktop, sddm, sdmd-kcm)
  • Installs systemd-boot as a bootloader.
  • Sets German keyboard layout and English locale.
  • Enables SDDM auto-login to boot into Plasma after the first reboot.