How-To-Linux

My personal, no-fluff how-to notes for setting up and running a Linux box — the stuff I'd otherwise re-google every few months. Written as terminal-first cheatsheets.

Assumptions: these guides target Arch Linux. paru is an AUR helper (swap for yay, or use plain pacman for official-repo packages). Commands that touch hardware (e.g. Wi-Fi interface names) may need tweaking for your machine.

Contents

Git

• Git CLI setup
• Creating remote repos from the terminal

SSH

• SSH keys: setup & management
• Connecting via SSH

Dev environments

• Python
• JavaScript / Node

WSL (Arch on Windows)

• Arch on WSL2: first-boot setup
• Windows interop

Security

• SSH commit signing
• Encrypted vault (gocryptfs)
• Keeping secrets out of git

Networking / privacy

• MAC address spoofing

License

MIT