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    <p class="text text--h1 center" style="line-height: 0px;">Archup</p>
    <p class="text center">A straight to the point Arch Linux installation guide for beginners.</p>

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        <p class="text text--h2">Step 1: Installing KDE Plasma</p>
        <p class="text">Installing KDE Plasma is quite straight-forward, first start by installing the following packages:</p>
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            <span class="textarea-text">sudo pacman -Syu plasma sddm konsole</span>
            <span class="textarea-text textarea-text--comment">   # I recommend you install the Konsole terminal emulator as it's tightly integrated with KDE.</span>
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        <p class="text">You will be prompted with various options, I recommend you keep everything default except for choosing <strong>pipewire</strong>.</p>

        <p class="text">Enable <strong>sddm</strong>:</p>
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            <span class="textarea-text">sudo systemctl enable --now sddm</span>
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        <p class="text text--h2">Step 2: Installing Recommend Packages</p>
        <p class="text"><strong>Highly Recommended</strong></p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>dolphin</strong>          | A file manager.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>kate</strong>             | A text editor.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>ark</strong>              | An archive manager.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>gwenview</strong>         | An image viewer.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>mpv</strong>              | A very performant media player.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>vlc</strong>              | Another media player. I'd recommend trying mpv first.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>firefox</strong>          | A browser.</p>

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        <p class="text"><strong>Optional</strong></p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>steam</strong>            | Steam. <i>Make sure you enable <strong>multi-lib</strong> in /etc/pacman.conf</i></p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>prismlauncher</strong>    | An open-source Minecraft launcher.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>discord</strong>          | Discord. I also recommend looking into <strong>Vesktop</strong>.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>spotify-launcher</strong> | Spotify.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>qpwgraph</strong>         | A GUI for pipewire.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>gparted</strong>          | A GUI disk utility.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>qbittorrent</strong>      | A torrenting software.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>vorta</strong>            | A GUI wrapper for Borg backup.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>flatpak</strong>          | A package manager used for sandboxed applications.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>wine</strong>             | A tool that allows you to run Windows applications.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>ffmpeg</strong>           | The Swiss army knife of media conversion.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>ffmpegthumbs</strong>     | Display media thumbnails inside of Dolphin.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>obs-studio</strong>       | A video recorder.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>audacity</strong>         | An audio editor</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>gimp</strong>             | A photo editor.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>kio-admin</strong>        | Useful for starting KDE applications as admin.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>noto-fonts-cjk</strong>   | Support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>noto-fonts-extra</strong> | Extra language support.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>btop</strong>             | A terminal-based system monitor utility.</p>

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        <p class="text text--h2">AUR Packages</p>

        <p class="text">To install AUR packages, you will need to install a tool such as <a target="_blank" class="text" href="https://github.com/Jguer/yay">yay</a>.</p>

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        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>brave-bin</strong>                 | Brave browser.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>gpu-screen-recorder-ui</strong>    | An NVIDIA shadowplay like screen recorder.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>vscodium-bin</strong>              | Visual Studio Code.</p>
        <p class="text text--monospace"><strong>vesktop-bin</strong>               | Discord fork with improvements.</p>
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