Setting up my Open(sus)e Tumbleweed System (KDE plasma)

Initial tweaks

Enable customization using KDE widget customization saver.

Disable baloo and other background services.

balooctl disable && balooctl purge

Other services to turn off:

• Autostart background services -> turn off: Night color location, Kscreen, Search folder updater, bluetooth.

Installing necessary flatpak apps

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

flatpak install flathub com.brave.Browser com.discordapp.Discord \
com.google.Chrome com.spotify.Client \
org.mozilla.firefox org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent \
org.telegram.desktop io.mpv.Mpv com.github.iwalton3.jellyfin-media-player \
com.valvesoftware.Steam com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl io.github.seadve.Kooha \
com.obsproject.Studio 

Setting up Docker

Install docker from YAST

Setting up Distrobox

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/89luca89/distrobox/main/install | sh -s -- --prefix ~/.local

distrobox-create -i docker.io/library/ubuntu:22.04 -n ubuntu

distrobox-create -i docker.io/library/archlinux:latest -n arch

Install necessary packages in arch distrobox

distrobox enter arch

Install yay-bin

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git

makepkg -si

yay -S neofetch neovim imagemagick jdk11-openjdk

yay vscodium-bin ranger kitty python-pip starship

pip install pillow

Exporting arch packages to host machine

distrobox-export --app vscodium &&
distrobox-export --app ranger &&
distrobox-export --app kitty &&
distrobox-export --bin /usr/sbin/ranger --export-path ~/.local/bin/ &&
distrobox-export --bin /usr/sbin/starship --export-path ~/.local/bin/ &&
distrobox-export --bin /usr/sbin/convert --export-path ~/.local/bin/ &&
distrobox-export --bin /usr/sbin/mogrify --export-path ~/.local/bin/ &&
distrobox-export --bin /usr/sbin/nvim --export-path ~/.local/bin/ &&
distrobox-export --bin /usr/sbin/vscodium --export-path ~/.local/bin/

From inside distrobox Use docker from within distrobox

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/docker

Yay cheatsheet

yay -Syu                 : updates entire system and AUR packages
yay <package_name>       : Searches package in pacman repos and AUR repos
yay -S <package_name>    : Installs a package

yay -Rns <package_name>  : Deletes package completely
yay -c                   : Removes unused dependencies
yay -Sc                  : Removes pacman and AUR cache

Useful guides

• Archwiki Java OpenJDK
• Yay guide youtube

Setting up KVM

• YAST -> Install hypervisor tools.

sudo systemctl start libvirtd

sudo systemctl enable libvirtd

sudo usermod -a -G libvirt $(whoami)

sudo virsh net-start default

Symbolic links for dotfiles

• Install vim-plug for neovim in arch distrobox

sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
       https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

rm -rf ~/.bashrc &&
ln -s ~/dotfiles/.bashrc ~/ &&
ln -s ~/dotfiles/config/ranger/ ~/.config/ &&
ln -s ~/dotfiles/config/kitty/ ~/.config/ &&
ln -s ~/dotfiles/config/nvim/ ~/.config/ &&
ln -s ~/dotfiles/config/starship.toml ~/.config/ &&
ln -s ~/dotfiles/config/vscode/keybindings.json ~/.config/VSCodium/User/ &&
ln -s ~/dotfiles/config/vscode/settings.json ~/.config/VSCodium/User/