Arch Linux Installation Guide (2023.10.20)

First of all, welcome to be an Archer :)

Then, let's start.

Installation Medium

Download the .iso file from the following link:

Prepare an Installation Medium

The installation image can be supplied to the target machine via a USB flash drive, an optical disc or a network with PXE.

You can use "Rufus" to make a live environment into your removeable USB drive.

I suggest you to use Ventoy to create bootable USB drive.

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.

Then, enter the UEFI BIOS, disable Secure Boot, and then boot the installation medium.

Connect to the Internet

Ensure your network interface is listed and enabled


ip link

For ethernet, just plug in the cable.

For Wi-Fi, authenticate to the wireless network using iwctl

For USB tethering, connect your phone to computer via USB cable, and turn on USB tethering.

iwctl

The iwd package is pre-installed in the installation medium, feel free to use it.

To get an interactive prompt, type the following command into your zsh shell.


iwctl

Connect to a network

First, if you do not know your wireless device name, list all Wi-Fi devices:

[iwd]# device list

Then, to scan for networks:

[iwd]# station <device> scan

You can then list all available networks:

[iwd]# station <device> get-networks

Finally, to connect to a network:

[iwd]# station <device> connect <SSID>

To exit the interactive prompt, send EOF by pressing Ctrl+d or enter "exit".

The connection may be verified with ping:


ping 8.8.8.8

Update the System Clock

Use timedatectl to ensure the system clock is accurate:


timedatectl set-ntp true

To check the service status, use:


timedatectl status

Partition the Disks (With Swap Space)

You can also create swapfile shown below.

When recognized by the live system, disks are assigned to a block device such as /dev/sda, /dev/nvme0n1 or /dev/mmcblk0. To identify these devices, use lsblk or fdisk.


fdisk -l

Once you've checked the block device. Use cfdisk to modify partition table

Mount point	Partition	Partition type	Suggested size
/mnt/boot/efi	/dev/efi_system_partition	EFI system partition	At least 300MiB
[SWAP]	/dev/swap_partition	Linux swap	More than 512 MiB
/mnt	/dev/root_partition	Linux x86-64 root (/)	Remainder of the device

Format the partitions



mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/<efi_system_partition>
mkswap /dev/<swap_partition>
mkfs.ext4 /dev/<root_partition>

Mount the file systems

Mount the root volume to /mnt. For example, if the root volume is /dev/root_partition:


mount /dev/root_partition /mnt

If you created a swap volume, enable it with swapon:


swapon /dev/swap_partition

Install essential packages

(Optional) Parallel Downloading

If you feel the download speed is too slow, you can modify /etc/pacman.conf, uncommand the following commands. Note that now you are modifying the configuration in boot image. This is just a temporary modification.


Color
ParallelDownloads = 5

Install

Use the pacstrap script to install the base package, Linux kernel and firmware for common hardware:


pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-headers linux-firmware

and some important apps:


pacstrap /mnt vim git sudo grub efibootmgr os-prober networkmanager ntfs-3g

We recommand you to install the following tools.


pacstrap /mnt ncdu htop p7zip zip unzip bat wget go ntp python-pip zsh tig openssh net-tools tcpdump axel

Troubleshooting

If pacstrap return like this

error: <package>: signature from "<maintainer>" is unknown trust

This means your keyring on the ISO is obsolete, you need to upgrade your installation medium.

Or you can run this command in arch live environment


pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

Then you can install by pacstrap normally.

The iwctl is pre-installed in installation
medium, but not in the device, you can install it by pacstrap or by pacman -S after chroot to /mnt. Thus, you must install NetworkManager during installation step in installation medium

pacman is the package manager of Arch Linux

Swapfile: Another Swap Solution

You can use swapfile to create swap. In this case, you can easily configure the swap space at anytime.

fallocate directly manipulates the allocated disk space for the file.


fallocate -l 64G /mnt/swapfile

Change mode to let swapfile can be only r/w by root.


chmod 600 /mnt/swapfile

Make swap and turn on swap.


mkswap /mnt/swapfile
swapon /mnt/swapfile

Link: Back to Partition the Disks (With Swap Space)

Mount EFI partition

Mount the EFI partition to /boot/efi


mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/<efi_system_partition> /mnt/boot/efi

Generate fstab

Generate an fstab file (use -U or -L to define by UUID or labels, respectively):


genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Check the resulting /mnt/etc/fstab file, and edit it in case of errors.

chroot

Change root into the new system:


arch-chroot /mnt

In chroot mode, systemctl can only enable or disable apps, it can't start or stop during chroot mode.

Time zone

Set the time zone:


ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/<Region/City> /etc/localtime

Let's say you are in Taiwan, enter the following command:


ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Taipei /etc/localtime

Time Adjustment

If you're struggling with showing different times when Windows and Linux dual booting, you can adjust the Linux timezone RTC to local timezone, which is same as Windows does.

Then, update your time from NTP server.


timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock
ntpdate -u 0.arch.pool.ntp.org

Run hwclock to generate ``/etc/adjtime`:


hwclock --systohc

This command assumes the hardware clock is set to UTC. See System time#Time standard for details.

Localization

Uncommit en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and others language you need in /etc/locale.gen. Generate the locales by executing:


locale-gen

Create the locale.conf file, and set the LANG variable accordingly:


vim /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Network Configuration

Create the hostname file:


vim /etc/hostname
<myhostname>

Add matching entries to hosts:




vim /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost
::1		localhost
127.0.1.1	myhostname.localdomain	myhostname

If the system has a permanent IP address, it should be used instead of 127.0.1.1.

Initramfs

Creating a new initramfs is usually not required, because mkinitcpio was run on installation of the kernel package with pacstrap.


mkinitcpio -P

Password for Root User

Set the root password:


passwd

Add New User

Add new user by the following command:


useradd <USERNAME> -G wheel # give this user sudo permission

Edit visudo, add/uncommend the following script:


visudo
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Set password for the user


passwd <USERNAME>

Make a directory for the user


mkdir /home/<USERNAME>
chown <USERNAME>:<USERNAME> /home/<USERNAME> -R

Add the user into group


usermod -a -G <GROUPNAME> <USERNAME>

Bootloader

Choose and install a Linux-capable boot loader. If you have an Intel or AMD CPU, enable microcode updates in addition.

Depending on the processor, install the following package:

amd-ucode for AMD processors,
intel-ucode for Intel processors.

Here we demonstrate GRUB for you.

Mount all the EFI volume

In our case, we split the disk into EFI, swap, and main file system.

If you have another OS in your computer, just mount them into everywhere you wish. Let's say /mnt/Ubuntu.EFI, /mnt/Windows

The EFI of Windows is located in C:\Windows\Boot\EFI.

os-prober

To have grub-mkconfig search for other installed systems and automatically add them to the menu, install the os-prober package and mount the partitions from which the other systems boot.

GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader)

GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) is a multi-boot loader. It is derived from PUPA which was a research project to develop the replacement of what is now known as GRUB Legacy. The latter had become too difficult to maintain and GRUB was rewritten from scratch with the aim to provide modularity and portability.

Follow the below steps to install GRUB:

Mount the EFI system partition and in the remainder of this section, substitute esp with its mount point.
Choose a bootloader identifier, here named GRUB. A directory of that name will be created in esp/EFI/ to store the EFI binary and this is the name that will appear in the UEFI boot menu to identify the GRUB boot entry.
Execute the following command to install the GRUB EFI application grubx64.efi to esp/EFI/GRUB/ and install its modules to /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/.


grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id=GRUB

In our case, type the following command:


grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id="Arch Linux GRUB"

After the above install completed the main GRUB directory is located at /boot/grub/. Note that grub-install also tries to create an entry in the firmware boot manager, named ArchLinux in the above example.

GRUB Configuration

On an installed system, GRUB loads the /boot/grub/grub.cfg configuration file each boot.

Use the grub-mkconfig tool to generate /boot/grub/grub.cfg:


grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

If you get the following output: Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions then edit /etc/default/grub and add/uncomment:

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

Then re-run grub-mkconfig


os-prober
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

grub-customizer

If you have problem with the resolution of GRUB theme, you can install this GUI tool to help you changing the resolution with theme.

Install KDE (Optional)

You can configure pacman.conf first to accelerate download speed.

I recommend KDE desktop environment because it has fewer bugs than gnome and easy to use.


pacman -S plasma kde-applications

Once installed, enable the Display Manager and Network Manager services:


systemctl enable sddm.service
systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

The Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager. It is the recommended display manager for the KDE Plasma and LXQt desktop environments.

You can't start or stop any apps in chroot mode.

Reboot your system

Exit the chroot environment by typing exit or pressing Ctrl+d.

Optionally manually unmount all the partitions with umount -R /mnt: this allows noticing any "busy" partitions, and finding the cause with fuser.

Finally, restart the machine by typing reboot: any partitions still mounted will be automatically unmounted by systemd. Remember to remove the installation medium and then login into the new system with the root account.

Start Display Manager

After reboot, type the following command:


systemctl start sddm.service

If you want to access the network first, type nmtui to configure network access.

Then you can use KDE. Enjoy to be an Archer :)

Let your Arch-Linux be better to use

Install yay

Yet Another Yogurt - An AUR Helper Written in Go






sudo pacman -S base-devel
cd /opt
sudo git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
sudo chown -R pablinux:users ./yay
cd yay
makepkg -si

Some Important Program

We also recommand you to install the following program


sudo pacman -S audacity obs-studio discord

We also recommand you to install the following AUR program


yay -S google-chrome anydesk-bin visual-studio-code-bin typora spotify timeshift

If you are using ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9, you have to install the following program to use audio card and fingerprint.


sudo pacamn -S sof-firmware fprintd

Install Google Chrome

According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/chromium, we no longer edit /usr/share/applications/google-chrome-stable.desktop.

Instead, we add chrome-flags.conf in the directory ~/.config/.






~/.config/chrome-flags.conf

# This line will be ignored.
--force-dark-mode
--enable-features=WebUIDarkMode
--password-store=basic

We pass --password-store=basic to Chrome to disable KDE wallet.

Manual Page


sudo pacman -S man-db man-pages

Install ibus (Optional)


sudo pacman -S ibus ibus-chewing

Add the configuration into /etc/environment

GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus

In ibus preference, select the chewing perference, disable 前方加詞, 單純注音模式, 後方選詞

Add the configuration into $HOME/.xprofile

export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
ibus-daemon -drx

Install fcitx5 (Optional)


sudo pacman -S fcitx5 fcitx5-im fcitx5-chewing fcitx5-mozc

The group fcitx5-im is very important. It contains

fcitx5
fcitx5-configtool
fcitx5-gtk
fcitx5-qt

For example, you need fcitx5-gtk to use fcitx5 in Google Chrome.

Add the configuration into /etc/environment

GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx5

Add the configuration into $HOME/.xprofile

export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx5
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx5

If you notice that shift does not work properly, just press ctrl+space. XDD

Fonts

You may use Google Noto Fonts.


yay -S noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-extra noto-fonts-tc noto-fonts-sc

Locale

Locales are used by glibc and other locale-aware programs or libraries for rendering text, correctly displaying regional monetary values, time and date formats, alphabetic idiosyncrasies, and other locale-specific standards.

Reference:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/locale

Take too long time to shutdown

If you have trouble for waiting long time to shutdown or reboot, modify /etc/systemd/system.conf and uncomment the following commands:

DefaultTimeoutStartSec=5s
DefaultTimeoutStopSec=5s
DefaultTimeoutAbortSec=5s

Modify pacman.conf

Edit the file /etc/pacman.conf, uncommand the following commands.


Color
ParallelDownloads = 5

AUR Multi-Process Setting

Edit the file


sudo vim /etc/makepkg.conf

Add/Uncomment the following command:


MAKEFLAGS="-j#" # is the number of your CPU threads

Arch Linux Pacman Mirror List

https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/all/

Nvidia Graphic Card Drivers

Install the following drivers.


sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings nvidia-lts

And then reboot your system.

GreenWithEnvy installation on Arch Linux and derivatives

Now for the case of those who are users of Arch Linux, Manjaro Linux, Antergos or any other distro based on Arch Linux. They will be able to install this tool in a simpler way.

This is thanks to GreenWithEnvy it is added within the AUR repositories and all the dirty work of compilation will avoid it.

They just need to have the AUR repository enabled on their system and have an AUR wizard installed. If you don't have one installed you can check the next post where we recommend one.

To install TuxClocker on Arch Linux, We just have to open a terminal and in it we are going to type the following command:


yay -S gwe

To enable overclocking on the PowerMizer page in nvidia-settings, type the following command:


nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=8

More information:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks#Overclocking_and_cooling

Steam

First, you need to enable multilib. To enable multilib repository, uncomment the [multilib] section in /etc/pacman.conf:




sudo vim /etc/pacman.conf

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Then upgrade the system and install the desired multilib packages.


yay -Syu

The following requirements must be fulfilled in order to run Steam on Arch Linux:

Installed 32-bit version OpenGL graphics driver.
Generated en_US.UTF-8 locale, preventing invalid pointer error.
The GUI heavily uses the Arial font. See Microsoft fonts. An alternative is to use ttf-liberation or fonts provided by Steam instead.
Install wqy-zenhei to add support for Asian languages.
If using systemd-networkd for network management, install lib32-systemd in order for Steam to be able to connect to its servers.

Graphic driver installation

The Linux kernel includes open-source video drivers and support for hardware accelerated framebuffers. However, userland support is required for OpenGL and 2D acceleration in X11.

First, identify the graphics card (the Subsystem output shows the specific model):

$ lspci -v | grep -A1 -e VGA -e 3D

Then, install an appropriate driver. You can search the package database for a complete list of open-source video drivers:

$ pacman -Ss xf86-video

Xorg searches for installed drivers automatically:

If it cannot find the specific driver installed for the hardware (listed below), it first searches for fbdev (xf86-video-fbdev).
If that is not found, it searches for vesa (xf86-video-vesa), the generic driver, which handles a large number of chipsets but does not include any 2D or 3D acceleration.
If vesa is not found, Xorg will fall back to kernel mode setting, which includes GLAMOR acceleration (see modesetting(4)).

In order for video acceleration to work, and often to expose all the modes that the GPU can set, a proper video driver is required:

Brand	Type	Driver	OpenGL	OpenGL (multilib)	Documentation
AMD / ATI	Open source	xf86-video-amdgpu	mesa	lib32-mesa	AMDGPU
AMD / ATI	Open source	xf86-video-ati	mesa	lib32-mesa	ATI
AMD / ATI	Proprietary	xf86-video-amdgpu	amdgpu-pro-libgl (AUR)	lib32-amdgpu-pro-libgl (AUR)	AMDGPU PRO
Intel	Open source	xf86-video-intel	mesa	lib32-mesa	Intel graphics
NVIDIA	Open source	xf86-video-nouveau	mesa	lib32-mesa	Nouveau
NVIDIA	Proprietary	nvidia	nvidia-utils	lib32-nvidia-utils	NVIDIA
NVIDIA	Proprietary	nvidia-470xx-dkms (AUR)	nvidia-470xx-utils (AUR)	lib32-nvidia-470xx-utils (AUR)	NVIDIA
NVIDIA	Proprietary	nvidia-390xx (AUR)	nvidia-390xx-utils (AUR)	lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils (AUR)	NVIDIA

For Intel graphics on 4th generation and above, see Intel graphics#Installation for available drivers.
For NVIDIA Optimus enabled laptop which uses an integrated video card combined with a dedicated GPU, see NVIDIA Optimus.

Other video drivers can be found in the xorg-drivers group.

Xorg should run smoothly without closed source drivers, which are typically needed only for advanced features such as fast 3D-accelerated rendering for games. The exceptions to this rule are recent GPUs (especially NVIDIA GPUs) not supported by open source drivers.

When you finish installing steam, goto Steam -> Settings -> Steam Play

Enable Steam Play for all other titles and choose Proton Experimental.

Openboard or Lorien


yay openboard

Bluetooth

To enable bluetooth service, type the following command:


sudo pacman -S blueman bluez pulseaudio-bluetooth
sudo systemctl enable --now bluetooth.service

Libreoffice


sudo pacman -S libcdr libreoffice-fresh

Flameshot (Screenshot application)


sudo pacman -S flameshot

Go to Setting -> 捷徑 -> Shortcuts, press Add Application, choose Flameshot.

Set Take screenshot to your favorite shortcut.

sddm configuration

Theme

Install the following app and font:


yay qt5-graphicaleffects ttf-roboto

Copy your theme into /usr/share/sddm/themes/

Edit /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d/default.conf

In [Theme], Set Current=<your theme name>

Save it and reboot your system.

NumLock

Edit /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d/default.conf

In [General], Set Numlock=on

Save it and reboot your system.

Wake On Lan

You have to make the configuration of the network card to always enabled wake on lan after every reboot.


sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/wol.service

[Unit]
Description=Configure Wake On LAN
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ethtool -s <INTERFACE> wol g
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 1
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=1s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

You can find the <INTERFACE> by ip a
Then type the following command:


sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now wol.service

If you have any problem, type


systemctl status wol.service

If there are multiple devices need to setup, try this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48195340/systemd-with-multiple-execstart

You can check if the magic package is delivered properly to the target machine by typing the following command:


tcpdump -i <INTERFACE> '(udp and port 9) or (udp and port 7)' -vv -X

Hibernate to swap partition

In order to use hibernation, you need to create a swap partition or file. You will need to point the kernel to your swap using the resume= kernel parameter, which is configured via the boot loader. You will also need to configure the initramfs. This tells the kernel to attempt resuming from the specified swap in early userspace. These three steps are described in detail below.

Edit /etc/default/grub


GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="resume=UUID=<The UUID of the swap partition>"

You can find the UUID by blkid


blkid | grep /dev/*efi_system_partition*

Then reconfig grub.


grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, add resume into HOOKS. Whether by label or by UUID, the swap partition is referred to with a udev device node, so the resume hook must go after the udev hook.


HOOKS=(base udev autodetect keyboard modconf block filesystems resume fsck)

Regenerate the initramfs for these changes to take effect.


mkinitcpio -P

Hibernate to swapfile

Using a swap file requires also setting the resume=UUID=swap_device_uuid and additionally a resume_offset=swap_file_offset kernel parameters. See the kernel documentation.

swap_device is the volume where the swap file resides and it follows the same format as for the root parameter.

You can find the UUID of swapfile by


findmnt -no UUID -T /swapfile

On file systems other than Btrfs, the value of swap_file_offset can be obtained by running


filefrag -v /swapfile

The output is in a table format and the required value is in the first row of the physical_offset column.

Filesystem type is: ef53
File size of /swapfile is 163208757248 (39845888 blocks of 4096 bytes)
 ext:     logical_offset:        physical_offset: length:   expected: flags:
   0:        0..       0:   92270592.. 92270592:      1:            
   1:        1..    4095:   92270593..  92274687:   4095:             unwritten
   2:     4096..   28671:   92241920..  92266495:  24576:   92274688: unwritten
   3:    28672..   38911:   20011008..  20021247:  10240:   92266496: unwritten
   4:    38912..   71679:   19791872..  19824639:  32768:   20021248: unwritten
   ......
   829: 39667712..39845887:  174620672.. 174798847: 178176:  174618656: last,unwritten,eof
/swapfile: 829 extents found

In the example the value of swap_file_offset is the first 92270592 with the two periods and the kernel parameter would be resume_offset=92270592.

Finally, regenerate grub configure and mkinitcpio as shown above.

PATH

If you want to append your path globally, you can add your path to /etc/profile


append_path '/usr/local/cuda/bin'

Type source /etc/profile to reload it.

Timeshift

If your timeshift cannot backup your system automatically, type the following command:


systemctl enable --now cronie

Laptop Power Saver: TLP

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TLP

Bugs of KDE Compositor

If you have trouble of screenshot or OBS failure, try setting "Never" to "Keep window thumbnails"

And then type the following command:


kwin_x11 --replace & disown && exit

Or you can just turn it off.

Bugs of KDE icon cache

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/blank-icons-in-app-menu/37652/2

If you get blank icon or the icon is broken of the pinned apps in the system tray, you can type the following command:


rm -f ~/.cache/*.kcache`

This will force Plasma to rebuild its icon caches.


kbuildsycoca5

Pipewire

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire

Installation

Install the pipewire package from the official repositories. There is also lib32-pipewire for multilib support.

Pipewire uses systemd/User for management of the server and automatic socket activation.

Optionally, install pipewire-docs to review the documentation.

GUI

Helvum — GTK-based patchbay for PipeWire, inspired by the JACK tool catia. Does not save wire sets.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/helvum

Usage for PulseAudio clients

Install pipewire-pulse. It will replace pulseaudio and pulseaudio-bluetooth. Reboot, re-login or start the pipewire-pulse.service user unit to see the effect.

Normally, no further action is needed, as the user service pipewire-pulse.socket should be enabled automatically by the package. To check if the replacement is working, run the following command and see the output:


pactl info

...
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.32)
...

Audio post-processing - EasyEffects

EasyEffects (former PulseEffects) is a GTK utility which provides a large array of audio effects and filters to individual application output streams and microphone input streams. Notable effects include an input/output equalizer, output loudness equalization and bass enhancement, input de-esser and noise reduction plug-in. See the GitHub page for a full list of effects.

In order to use EasyEffects, install easyeffects. See Community Presets for a collection of preset configurations. See AutoEq for collection of AI generated EQ presets for headphones.

Finally, install lsp-plugins, calf.

TexLive

Type the following command:


sudo pacman -S texlive texlive-lang

Temporarily Reboot to Windows

Ref: StackExchange

Edit your rc file, e.g. .bashrc or .zshrc. Add the following function into it.







# Reboot directly to Windows
# Inspired by http://askubuntu.com/questions/18170/how-to-reboot-into-windows-from-ubuntu
reboot_to_windows () {
    windows_title=$(sudo grep -i windows /boot/grub/grub.cfg | cut -d "'" -f 2)
    sudo grub-reboot "$windows_title" && sudo reboot
}
alias reboot-to-windows='reboot_to_windows'

After that, reload your run script.


exec zsh

Similarly, you can reboot to Ubuntu or Arch Linux directly.





reboot_to_ubuntu () {
    ubuntu_title=$(sudo grep -i "Ubuntu 22.04" /boot/grub/grub.cfg | grep -v "Advanced options" | cut -d "'" -f 2)
    sudo grub-reboot "$ubuntu_title" && sudo reboot
}
alias reboot-to-ubuntu="reboot_to_ubuntu"





reboot_to_arch () {
    arch_title=$(sudo grep -i "Arch Linux " /boot/grub/grub.cfg | grep -v "Advanced options" | grep "rolling" | cut -d "'" -f 2)
    sudo grub-reboot "$arch_title" && sudo reboot
}
alias reboot-to-arch="reboot_to_arch"