What do you like to do to your Arch setup after installing?

[nullfly]

I have spent the last several months hopping between all kinds of different Linux distros and have tried damn near every distro I can possibly think of. From this I have decided that my favorite is the one I was running from the get go... Arch Linux.


So anyway, I'm planning on putting it back on my system tonight and was wondering what sort of things you like to do your arch system (WMs, shells, tweaks, etc.)? Basically just seeing if I get any ideas of something new I might want to try out 

[Kulverstukas]

I like to crack a beer and reformat my drive, make space for a better OS.

[nullfly]

I like to crack a beer and reformat my drive, make space for a better OS.

I take it you're not a big Linux guy?

[proxx]

I like to crack a beer and reformat my drive, make space for a better OS.

Like windows XP , lol.

I have spent the last several months hopping between all kinds of different Linux distros and have tried damn near every distro I can possibly think of. From this I have decided that my favorite is the one I was running from the get go... Arch Linux.


So anyway, I'm planning on putting it back on my system tonight and was wondering what sort of things you like to do your arch system (WMs, shells, tweaks, etc.)? Basically just seeing if I get any ideas of something new I might want to try out 

Most importantly is to make sure you got all the hardware covered, including acpid , cpuscaling and that sorta stuff.
Check dmseg for things that should not be there etc.
Make sure you configure temp and hardware monitors.
Setup logging.

After that I usually start with a WM ( currently on awesomewm), terminals, webbrowsers, security tools, virtualbox, torrent client, conky, libreoffice, leafpad , geany, zsh etc.
Than we have firewalling and securtiy, fixing some ln's, file structure etc
Tune some things for speed or powersaving (depends on hardware).
Some gtk themes, fonts.

Depends really on the purpose and personal preferences.

[flowjob]

I read through the List of Applications and tried out all the stuff that sounded interesting, played with the configurations, and now I've got a pretty custom and unique setup. As you start with a pretty clean install I prefer to keep it as clean as possible (no bloated software/packages like DEs) but that's personal preference...

[pl0tuS]

*waiting for lucid..

[lucid]

Well..... what do you want to use it for?

[techb]

I like to crack a beer and reformat my drive, make space for a better OS. Watch Porn.

I fixed it for ya Kulver.


Web browser, plugins needed like flash.
Conkey.
XChat.


And that's it. I install things as I need them.

[nullfly]

Well..... what do you want to use it for?

It's going to be my primary os, which for me means that it will primarily be used for the following:

• Day-to-day crap that you could do just as well on any system, such as web browsing
• running a number of different VMs
• programming
• learning some different areas of hacking (especially in the reverse engineering/exploit discovery departments)

[lucid]

In that case I recommend you do a few things right away.

1. Get your /home organized. Mine looks like this:

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├── bak
├── bin
├── conf
│   ├── pkgs
│   └── script
├── dev
│   ├── code
│   │   ├── asm
│   │   │   ├── crackmes
│   │   │   └── docs
│   │   ├── compiled
│   │   │   ├── c
│   │   │   │   ├── docs
│   │   │   └── lisp
│   │   │       └── docs
│   │   └── scripted
│   │       ├── perl
│   │       │   ├── docs
│   │       ├── php
│   │       │   ├── docs
│   │       │   └── shells
│   │       ├── py
│   │       │   └── docs
│   │       ├── ruby
│   │       │   ├── docs
│   │       │   └── learn
│   │       └── sh
│   │           └── docs
│   └── proj
├── lib
│   ├── books
│   ├── docs
│   ├── dox
│   ├── sites
│   └── txts
├── media
│   ├── img
│   ├── music
│   ├── screens
│   ├── torrent
│   └── vid
├── sec
│   ├── pcap
│   └── wordlist
├── src
└── tmp

Next, install a virtualization software(I use virtualbox). Then, perhaps install some useful cli and networking tools:

Networking/Diagnostics:
    - dig
    - nslookup
    - host
    - p0f
    - hping
    - fping
    - netcat
    - wireshark
    - nmap

The most important thing is keeping organized and being very comfortable with your UI. Other than that it's a whole lotta trial and error to see what you like and don't like.

Oh, almost forgot. I recommend you check out mocp and midnight commander. Mocp is a command line music player and midnight commander is a command line file manager. They are both very fitting with Arch's simplistic behavior and with a little work you can get them to look quite sexy.

[nullfly]

I've got to say, I quite like the general idea of how you lay out your /home!