doniwicaksono / artix-post-installation

My take on Artix Linux post-installation featuring Chaotic-AUR, paru, and Zinit.

Artix Linux Post-Installation

1. Upgrade system and reboot.

sudo pacman -Syyu

2. Edit pacman.conf file, uncomment Color and set ParallelDownloads = 8.

sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

3. Edit makepkg.conf file, uncomment and set MAKEFLAGS="-j8". You can change -j8 to the number of CPU threads you have, in my case is 8.

sudo nano /etc/makepkg.conf

4. Install base-devel from AUR for building AUR packages.

sudo pacman -S base-devel

5. Setup the Universe repo for more precompiled AUR packages.
6. Install artix-archlinux-support for Arch packages.

sudo pacman -S artix-archlinux-support

7. Setup Chaotic-AUR for additional precompiled AUR packages.
8. Install pacman-contrib for ranking pacman mirrors.

sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib

9. Generate a fresh mirrorlist on the official Mirrorlist Generator.
10. Rank Artix Linux mirrors. Edit the mirrorlist file and put the resulting lines on top.

# Backup the existing mirrorlist
sudo cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bak

# Rank the mirrors
rankmirrors -v -n 10 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

11. Install paru (AUR helper).

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
cd paru
makepkg -si

12. Install essential fonts from AUR: CJK fonts, Noto emoji.
13. Install nerd fonts from AUR: JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, Hack, Cascadia Code, Mononoki, etc.
14. Install and setup proprietary packages from AUR: Microsoft Edge, VS Code, Spotify, Discord, etc.
15. Install zsh and set as default shell.

# Install zsh via pacman:
sudo pacman -S zsh

# Change the default shell:
chsh -s $(which zsh)

16. Install Zinit (zsh framework).

# The easiest way to install Zinit is to execute:
bash -c "$(curl --fail --show-error --silent --location https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit/HEAD/scripts/install.sh)"

# After installing and reloading the shell, compile Zinit via .zshrc file:
zinit self-update

17. Install pure prompt.

# Update your .zshrc file with the following two lines:
zinit ice compile'(pure|async).zsh' pick'async.zsh' src'pure.zsh'
zinit light sindresorhus/pure

18. Install some essential zsh plugins. Add the following lines to .zshrc file.

# Plugin history-search-multi-word loaded with investigating
zinit load zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-word

# Snippet
zinit snippet https://gist.githubusercontent.com/hightemp/5071909/raw/

# Turbo mode
zinit wait lucid for \
 atinit"ZINIT[COMPINIT_OPTS]=-C; zicompinit; zicdreplay" \
    zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting \
 blockf \
    clarketm/zsh-completions \
 atload"!_zsh_autosuggest_start" \
    zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

19. And that’s it, you’re done!