Installation

NVIDIA USERS: Instructions at bottom of page

After booting up the ISO, select Openbox Session in the upper left corner of the login screen(The LainOS Installer only works in Openbox).

Then enter liveuser with no password into the login prompt to enter the Openbox live installation environment, and follow the installer directions. Internet is not required.

Post installation:

Open a terminal, and issue the command sudo pacman -Syu to update the system, then nano to open and update LazyVim.

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The LainOS Team

NVIDIA INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Install nvidia drivers: at the login screen, press Ctrl + Alt + F3, then login in and issue the following command:

sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils egl-wayland

2. Enable kernel mode setting by editing /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and adding the NVIDIA modules to the MODULES array(find and edit the 'MODULES' line to match the one below):

sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)

3. Regenerate intramfs with:

sudo mkinitcpio -P

4. Launch sway with unsupported-GPU flag:

Open file to edit:

sudo nano /usr/share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop

5. Change the line exec=sway to exec=sway --unsupported-gpu

ctrl+o then Enter to save, ctrl+x to Exit

6. Logout and log back in to test your GPU.