Easy HYPRLAND installation. With the ARCH Linux install script. Waybar, wofi, hyprpaper, firefox

Installing Hyprland on Archlinux is easy with the archinstall script shipped with the Arch Linux installation ISO.
Hyprland is available as desktop profile in the official Arch Linux distribution.

With this you can easily install a base system of Hyprland on your computer or on in a Virtual Machine and you’re ready for further customization.

Download Arch Linux:
https://archlinux.org/download/

Create a bootable USB stick with:
https://etcher.balena.io/

Only a few manual steps are needed after the installation to enable wofi as the application launcher, the status bar waybar and a wallpaper with hyprpaper. The browser Firefox will be installed as well and dolphin as filemanager.

Hyprland will be selected as a desktop profile. The additional packages are:
hyprpaper wofi alacritty dolphin waybar ttf-font awesome firefox

Learn how you can use Linux for your work.
Linux is a great Operating System (OS) to support me daily at my business. Linux is stable, fast and you can customize it to individual needs. In this channel, I want to share my setup of Arch Linux and show how I use my system as a daily driver.

My name is Stephan Raabe and I’m a Digital Marketing Professional with more than 20 years of experience in B2B Digital Marketing, computer science and web technologies.

This channel provides tutorials about Linux, the distribution Arch, window managers (e.g. Qtile) and desktop environments, and Microsoft 365 (Office 365) plus other cloud based services that I use in Digital Marketing activities.

Homepage:
https://www.ml4w.com

My Dotfiles for my Linux configuration:
https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles

Arch Installation Script:
https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/archinstall

MyChatGPT Python Script:
https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/mychatgpt

00:00 Overview and final result
01:05 Download the Arch ISO
02:15 The installation
06:57 First Login
09:53 Settings for the VM
11:40 Wallpaper with Hyprpaper
13:29 Workspaces in Waybar

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