Arch Linux

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The Ultimate Sway Config for a Fast and Stable Wayland Setup (2025 Edition)

A fully optimized Sway configuration guide for fast, stable, and minimal Wayland setups, including essential packages, environment variables, and a complete config file.

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Optimize Sway on Wayland for Maximum Performance on Intel iGPU (Dual Full HD Setup)

A deep performance optimization guide for Sway on Wayland using Intel integrated graphics with a dual Full HD monitor setup.

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How to Extract Multi-Part ZIP Files on Linux (The Correct Way)

A complete guide to repairing, merging, and extracting multi-part ZIP archives (.zip.001, .zip.002) on Linux the right way using zip -FF.

A terminal screen on Arch Linux showing the steps to configure hibernation using Unified Kernel Images (UKI) and mkinitcpio by editing /etc/kernel/cmdline.

Arch Hibernate: My Empty /boot/loader/entries/ Fix

Couldn’t enable hibernate on Arch Linux with systemd-boot? My /boot/loader/entries/ was empty. Here’s the fix: Unified Kernel Images (UKI) and /etc/kernel/cmdline.

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My Arch + Sway Workflow: Blazing-Fast PWA Keybindings

A deep dive into my Arch Linux + Sway keybindings. Learn my Mod4 strategy and how I use a custom shell script to launch web apps like ChatGPT as PWAs.

A developer's terminal showing the configuration file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs being edited to change the default download path, preventing automatic folder creation on a minimalist Linux system.

Stop Linux Auto-Creating a ~/Downloads Folder

Tired of the Downloads folder reappearing on your minimalist Arch Linux + Sway setup? This guide shows how to edit the XDG user-dirs.dirs file to permanently set your home directory as the default.