dmarcoux/dotfiles-CachyOS

Installation

I only mention what isn't obvious. Same for differences from the standard setup.

• Use Limine as bootloader.
• Select keyboard layout Canadian (CSA) under French (Canada).
• Pick the KDE desktop environment.
• Unselect CachyOS shell configuration, select Printing Support. Erase the whole disk (/dev/sda on my desktop computer)
• Use encryption with a different password as my user.
• Use a different password for the root user.

Issues

• Wrong keyboard layout used when decrypting the LUKS partition on boot. Changing the keyboard settings within the GUI of the Live ISO doesn't work. Same with localectl.

First Boot Setup

1. Install & Configure 1Password and its CLI. The 1Password signing key is imported before the installation.

    curl -sS https://downloads.1password.com/linux/keys/1password.asc | gpg --import
   
    paru -S 1password 1password-cli

2. Install official packages:

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmarcoux/dotfiles-CachyOS/refs/heads/main/packages.txt &&
     sudo pacman -S --needed $(cat packages.txt) &&
     rm packages.txt

   packages.txt was created with:

   pacman --query --native --explicit | cut --delimiter " " --fields=1 | paste -sd " " > packages.txt

3. Install AUR packages:

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmarcoux/dotfiles-CachyOS/refs/heads/main/AUR_packages.txt &&
     paru -S --needed $(cat AUR_packages.txt) &&
     rm AUR_packages

   AUR_packages.txt was created with:

   pacman --query --foreign --explicit | cut --delimiter " " --fields=1 | paste -sd " " > AUR_packages.txt

4. Enable Docker daemon (with docker.socket, it starts on first usage, not on boot), and add my user to the docker group to allow using Docker as non-root.

   sudo systemctl enable --now docker.socket &&
     sudo gpasswd -a dany docker

5. Enable MullvadVPN daemon.

   sudo systemctl enable --now mullvad-daemon.service

6. Clone and use dotfiles:

   chezmoi init git@github.com:dmarcoux/dotfiles-CachyOS.git --apply

7. Set fish as the default shell:

   chsh --shell /usr/bin/fish

TODOs for Setup

• https://www.lorenzobettini.it/2025/09/managing-kde-dotfiles-with-chezmoi-and-chezmoi-modify-manager/