≡ Arch Linux Setup

This page has list of things that makes linux experience better.

System will keep functioning without these things, but the experience will be subpar at places (like not good font rendering, having to enter ssh password multiple times). Since system will keep functioning, these are easy to miss and difficult to identify and fix.

Linux distros are always evolving, so there might be things on this page which might not be irrelevant because of various reasons like they being by the distro or they bering replaced with sometthing new.

## System services

### SSH agent daemon¹

Enabling ssh-agent makes it possible to use ssh-add once and keep using it without needing to enter password again for ssh.

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systemctl enable --user ssh-agent.service

### Ghostty daemon²

This allows opening a new ghostty terminal window faster.

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systemctl enable --user app-com.mitchellh.ghostty.service

## Fonts

This list includes fonts for system, symbols, emojis and icons. Without these fonts, fonts do not looks good on website, emjies are not rendered on websites, symbol fonts are not rendered in system elements (like waybar).

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sudo pacman -S noto-fonts \
  noto-fonts-emoji \
  ttf-dejavu \
  ttf-liberation \
  ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols