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Вся суть харча™ (на самом деле все далеко не так...)

Установка Arch Linux с шифрованием всего диска либо раздела и Btrfs

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Install Arch Linux with ZFS root filesystem, zfs-dkms, ZFSBootMenu, Pacman Auto-snapshots, Secure Boot enabled

Configure system BIOS

Disable Secure Boot. ZFS modules can not be loaded if Secure Boot is enabled.

ZFS automated install script

Before moving on I need to point out that there exists a script that can automate the configuration and install of a ZFS root system. However as convenient as it sounds the script is limited in flexibility and scope. These limitation cannot be overcome unless one has the time and compacity to edit the script to their liking. If you want to install a ZFS root system as quickly as possible and don't care about any particulars than take a good look at this github page.

• https://github.com/eoli3n/arch-config

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Install ZSH on Linux and make it your default Shell

Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is the default command-line shell on many distributions. Zsh (Z Shell) is a powerful shell that operates as both an interactive shell and as a scripting language interpreter.

🚀 Installation

1. Install the zsh package:

• Ubuntu/Mint:

sudo apt install zsh

• Fedora:

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Arch Linux tweaks

This is a collection of the tweaks and modification I've made to my Arch Linux installation over the months. These may be applicable to other distros, but please check first before doing anything. I also included Arch Wiki references for all the procedures I mentioned. My recommendation is not to blindly follow this gist but to always check with the Arch Linux wiki first. Things move fast and by the time you're reading this my gist may be out of date. Lastly, the golden rule: never execute a command you don't understand.

Installing the KDE Plasma desktop

My current DE of choice is KDE's Plasma. I find it just about perfect.

There are various ways to install it on Arch. The most popular one is to install plasma and plasma-applications, but I don't like doing that because it comes with too many programs I'll never use. I, instead, install the base plasma group, remove the few extra packages that come with it, then I finish off by installing a few KDE apps that don't come with th

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Fedora: Root on ZFS

• Fedora: 28
• ZFS on Linux: 0.7.9

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Note: for newer Fedora releases see Reliably boot Fedora with root on ZFS.

A. Prepare source

1. Download Fedora Workstation network installer image.

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Arch Linux Root on ZFS

Installation steps for running Arch Linux with root on ZFS using UEFI and systemd-boot. All steps are run as root.

In live environment

// Not needed

• Set a bigger font if needed:

// setfont latarcyrheb-sun32

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VMDK to VHDX

Follow [steps][1]:

• Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42497
• Open Powershell as administrator and run Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter\MvmcCmdlet.psd1'
• And after ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk -SourceLiteralPath d:\scratch\vmx\VM-disk1.vmdk -VhdType DynamicHardDisk -VhdFormat vhdx -destination c:\vm-disk1

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// tweaked from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42718113/1170664
func getXML(url string) ([]byte, error) {
  resp, err := http.Get(url)
  if err != nil {
    return []byte{}, fmt.Errorf("GET error: %v", err)
  }
  defer resp.Body.Close()

  if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
    return []byte{}, fmt.Errorf("Status error: %v", resp.StatusCode)

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::[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess)]
::param
::(
::# Update these values to where you have GW2 installed and named
::    [Parameter(Position = 0)]
::    [System.String]
::    $Gw2Path = "D:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2-64.exe",
::
::# This line can be removed if you don't want to pass any arguments
::# It does not get used if you already have a "%APPDATA%\Guild Wars 2\Settings.json" file