This is for you if … You have some spare time and want to dive into nix and or try another way to configure your machine environment. And let me tell you, nix is a great way of remedying the problem of never having had all software admin problems at the same time! Jokes aside, there actually is a decent way of managing your home setup, i.e. aliases and command line tools using home-manager. ...
Introduction In this post I assume you have successfully set up an Arch VM, e.g. like in my last post. The following is based on “General Recommendations” and various forum threads … :-D In order to get a pretty GUI to interact with we will 1) set up the networking config for the VM and 2) select and install graphics drivers, display server, a desktop environment and a display manager. An outline of the second can also be found here with a range of options for common desktop environments and display managers to choose from. ...
Introduction Let’s set up an Arch Linux VM on a Ubuntu 24.04 host system. There is great material out there, e.g. this guide on installing Arch Linux, but I was missing small pieces here and there. Hence this post. Install Virtualbox One tool to manage virtual machines is Virtualbox. To install it run sudo apt install virtualbox For a more detailed guide please see this page. Now if you enter virtualbox -h in your terminal you should see something like ...