Vlarch

Just, Vlad's Arch

Vlarch is a personal Arch Linux flavor with two explicit flows: install from a live ISO, and update from an already-installed Vlarch machine.

Philosophy

Flows

Install

From a fresh Arch live USB.

  • Detect networking (ethernet / WiFi)
  • Select timezone and locale
  • Partition disk (custom multi-disk or full auto)
  • Install base system, manifests, dotfiles, and desktop setup
curl -fsSL 'https://vlarch.vladi.tech/install.sh' | bash

Update

From an already-installed Vlarch machine.

  • Reconcile packages from centralized manifests
  • Strict-auto removal for unmanaged packages (keep-lists respected)
  • Sync and override dotfiles
  • Refresh Hyprland plugins in an isolated step
curl -fsSL 'https://vlarch.vladi.tech/update.sh' | bash

First-Boot AI Onboarding

On first interactive shell login, Vlarch shows a one-time AI onboarding prompt with:

To rerun onboarding manually: vlarch ai-setup