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 LVM volumes for the root and home partition.

Click here to go to the manual installation...

To automatically install Arch Linux, clone this repository:

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

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 with custom sizes.
  • Refreshes the latest mirror list.
  • Installs a base system (base linux linux-firmware lvm2 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.