Some small tweak recommendations for low-end hardware

Lounge EndeavourOS development
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So I mainly use endeavor on low-spec systems such as revived Chromebooks
one of the main issues I consistently run into is storage, most Chromebooks only have an 16gb to 32gb internal storage.
The second most common issue I run into is low memory or potato CPU, but that’s just a caveat of Chromebook hardware that not much can be done about/

So here are some options I feel should be shown in the installer

  1. separate home partition support
  • most Chromebook have an SD Card slot, whether its full size or micro, it typically has one, if not it has a USB port, so allowing to define an external partition for /home would be a life saver to have on storage
  1. mount /var/cache/pacman/pkg as tmpfs,
  • most of the time users are not going to need these files to persist,
  • this folder is a cache folder where pacman stores the packages it downloads, the problem is that there is no tooling built into pacman to clean this folder out, on a server I was running for a few years this folder once reached 40gb of storage, and the average arch user (let alone the user-friendly Endeavor user) may not know about this folder and the storage creep it can have.
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Use manual installation and create the partition scheme you want.


sudo pacman -Sc

sudo pacman -Scc

paccache (paccache.timer, paccache.service)

Please refer to ArchWiki and the man pages for pacman and paccache for more info,

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You can enable the systemd paccache.timer which will clean the cache weekly using the default settings.

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