My top things to do after every Manjaro install

You just installed Manjaro Linux, and now staring at the desktop. What to do now? Here are the steps I always do!

Before anything else…

Change the mirrors and update your system! You don’t want to be configuring or changing settings and then find out a new config was released and might replace yours!

sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 10 && sudo pacman -Syyu

After the process is finished, reboot your machine.

Decrease the swappiness level

whether you chose to use a swap partition or a swap file, you don’t want your machine to use it often. RAM is faster, so let’s prefer that:

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.d/100-manjaro.conf

Paste the following line:

vm.swappiness=10

Reboot once again, and voilá!

Using an SSD? Enable trim!

Spare the life of your SSD as much as possible, by activating trim (not enabled by default on Manjaro, at the time of this writing)

sudo systemctl start fstrim.timer

Enable AUR

You’re on Manjaro now. Make use of AUR! Head over to Pamac(add/remove) and tick the following option:

You can now install a tool to help you install AUR software from the terminal. That’s YAY: sudo pacman -S yay

Now every time you need to update AUR software, just type “yay”. Or, to install something…type yay -S teamviewer

Now, some might say this is enough. You could now just install all your favorite apps and move on. However i still recommend checking the video above for the rest of the steps that might interest you:

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When you finished and your system is configured and in a perfect state, you could also run a backup with Timeshift. If later on you mess something up, at least you can restore it!

cheers