After using Elementary OS for almost half a decade…since Luna release. I wanted to explore other distros.
As I have mentioned earlier Slackware being my first Linux experience, wanted to go for something similar this time and ended up with arch based Manjaro, it turned out to be great choice. Still using the same laptop from my previous setup post(HP EliteBook 2570P)
The following is a documentation of the new setup.
Update and Upgrade system
First thing to do after Installation is full system update
Privacy Settings
Terminal
VMware Workstation
Virtual Box
Virtual Machine Manager
Docker
Geary
Disable tracker(Gnome)
Install browsers
Install Media players
MPVplayer
Audacious
Solanum Timer app
VMware Workstation
sudo modprobe -a vmw_vmci vmmon
Start and enable services
There are three services that can be optionally be enabled:
vmware-networks.service: Provides network access inside VMs, most people will want this enabled
vmware-usbarbitrator.service: Allows USB devices to be connected inside VMs
vmware-hostd.service: Enables sharing of VMs on the network
To start and enable these services use:
sudo systemctl enable –now vmware-networks.service
sudo systemctl enable –now vmware-usbarbitrator.service
sudo systemctl enable –now vmware-hostd.service
KVM Install
Browsers
Google Chrome
Opera
Firefox
Brave
Vivaldi
Cloud Storage
Dropbox
Github Desktop
Calibre Version 5
Redshift
Caffein
Programming Languages
Python
Go
Dart / Flutter
Rust(rustup)
lua
D
Node
PWSH
Ruby
Graphic Design
Inkscape
Text / Code Editors
Gedit
VSCode
Sublime Text
Android Studio
Labs
VMware workstation
VirtualBox
KVM
GNS3/ EVENG
Docker
sudo pacman -Syu python-pip
sudo pacman -Syu python-pip
13 pip install pylint –user
14 pip install black –user
sudo pacman -S nodejs npm
create .npmrc
npm -g
If you don’t want to execute the npm -g with root privileges, here’s how to setup npm to support this.
- Configure npm
npm reads settings from the .npmrc file in your home directory. Create it with the following content:
prefix = ~/.npm
This will tell npm to put all packages, which you install with the -g flag, into .npm/lib/node_modules within your home directory.
- Configure your $PATH
Some modules (like grunt) come with executable scripts. You probably want to be able to execute them without having to type the full path to .npm/lib/node_modules/…. Thankfully, npm links every executable to .npm/bin. So you just have to add this to your $PATH.
Edit your ~/.bash_profile and add this line:
export PATH=$PATH:~/.npm/bin
That’s it.
KVM
sudo pacman -S qemu virt-manager virt-viewer dnsmasq vde2 bridge-utils openbsd-netcat
sudo pacman -S ebtables iptables
Step 4: Enable normal user account to use KVM
Since we want to use our standard Linux user account to manage KVM, let’s configure KVM to allow this.
Open the file /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf for editing.
sudo pacman -S vim
sudo vim /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
Set the UNIX domain socket group ownership to libvirt, (around line 85)
unix_sock_group = “libvirt”
Set the UNIX socket permissions for the R/W socket (around line 102)
unix_sock_rw_perms = “0770”
Add your user account to libvirt group.
sudo usermod -a -G libvirt $(whoami)
newgrp libvirt
Restart libvirt daemon.
sudo systemctl restart libvirtd.service
Step 5: Enable Nested Virtualization (Optional)
Nested Virtualization feature enables you to run Virtual Machines inside a VM. Enable Nested virtualization for kvm_intel by enabling kernel module as shown.
sudo modprobe -r kvm_intel
sudo modprobe kvm_intel nested=1
To make this configuration persistent,run:
echo “options kvm-intel nested=1” | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/kvm-intel.conf
Confirm that Nested Virtualization is set to Yes:
$ systool -m kvm_intel -v | grep nested
nested = “Y”
nested_early_check = “N”
$ cat /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/nested
Y
sudo systemctl enable libvirtd.service
sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service
sudo pacman -S docker
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
sudo docker version
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
Joplin
Cherry Tree
Notion
Install GNS3
popsicle
In the future it will be a Macbook Pro laptop or Laptop with official Linux support like Dell XPS Developer edition or even upcoming Lenovo+Fedora
