everything listed in the post called “post install” is done by default out of the box now. firewall is enabled, etc.
i didnt know appimagelauncher was preinstalled, so i did paru -S appimagelauncher and now its at the end saying “appimagelauncher-git and appimagelauncher are in conflict. remove appimagelauncher?”
I tried to install it because i presumed it wasnt installed (thats my bad) however the wiki makes it sound like it wasnt preinstalled by telling me to install it.
imho the wiki should be updated because none of the post install steps are needed anymore. (besides maybe pacman -Syu)
I’ll flag this post for moderation in the hope that one of the Elder Gods (aka moderators) will have a look at it, because of the Wiki thing.
Apart from that, these are maybe a little too many different questions in one post, so don’t expect too many dedicated answers (because, like, the title reads very different than the questions you actually pose).
Is the firewall enabled by default?
I thought you only got the option to install.
The general package management is also not something that is ‘done’.
Is the wireless regdom set .. I thought that needed manual doing as well?
Global menu is also not something applied by default and does sometimes require workarounds.
Apparmor similarly still needs extra steps even if installed, right?
Default shell change is worth mentioning too .. though here we do have a candidate for change because chsh is the wrong tool! (both for initial config and for later changes).
Snippets on tldr and appimage and samba all seem relevant as long as we think they are worth mentioning at all (I do not really, at least not over the archwiki pages, but maybe that is just me).
Finally to your idea that appimage is installed by default - that is just not the case.
And while its not extremely pertinent to this whole concept of wiki improvements it might also be mentioned that in most cases an attempted ‘reinstall’ of a package means virtually nothing. You just happened to do it using an aur-helper and panicked and chose to install the git variant - which naturally conflicts with the non-git appimage package.
I very well could be wrong about this all as I am somewhat new to CachyOs- in which case I apologize.
when I went to enable it it seemed as though from the terminal feedback it was already on- but I could be wrong there. I would have to double check when I get home.
dont know what you mean exactly.
When I checked some of it said CA (im in canada) some seemed to indicate global. That was automatic
I did not try that yet, I will get back to you on it.
I simply copied the commands given in the wiki, and it said there were conflicting packages, before I continued I checked and from what I could tell in the niri app launcher there was a option for settings in regards to appimagelauncher. so again, am new, could be wrong, but this is my experience: Appimagelauncher-git was preinstalled. Or perhaps I am misunderstanding something.
I installed a new CachyOS ISO by the way, I tried void, considered arch, and realized how good I had it in Cachy so just reinstalled and was amazed at how much their Niri DE choice has gotten so crazy good.
So ive been running Cachy again for 2 days. its great!
PS: sudo pacman -Syu said there was nothing to update.
This one actually is listed at the wiki as enabled after install automatically.
The guided enable steps are probably included for completeness and/or in the case it was disabled for some other reason.
In any case the note makes me think the devs know in what state it is and chose to have the accompanying info.
The first section is ‘Updating the system’ which details the use of a handful of package managers. So its not really something ‘done for you’ or ‘finished’ or otherwise ended in some way .. as updates/package-management is an ongiong thing.
My turn to not be sure what you mean.
The wireless-regdb package needs to be installed and then the conf file at /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom should be used to uncommented a single line for your region. Again as far as I know this is not done by default.
No you did something else or more.
Because the command in the wiki is
paru appimagelauncher
Which would search for packages containing string ‘appimagelauncher’ and then give you choice as to what to install. One being appimagelauncher, one being appimagelauncher-git, one being appimagelauncher-bin, and one more, and then you would choose from that prompt which one to install. (All of them from the AUR.) So you must have chosen the git one somehow.
If you somehow had appimagelauncher already installed then it must have been from some other action because its not included by default .. especially as an AUR package.
PS.
It might be noted that this command will not update AUR packages. pacman cant do that.
You would need to return to your aur-helper for that.