ArchUp is an opinionated Arch Linux installer that picks the boring defaults so you don't have to.

What It Decides

• Btrfs with @ and @home subvolumes
• Limine bootloader (UEFI only)
• Chaotic-AUR enabled
• Plymouth boot splash
• Snapper for snapshot-based rollbacks
• NetworkManager, OpenSSH, zram, firewalld

What You Choose

• Disk and optional LUKS2 encryption
• Hostname, user, locale, timezone, keymap
• Kernel: linux, linux-lts, linux-zen, linux-hardened, linux-cachyos
• AMD P-State mode (auto-detected per Zen generation)
• GPU drivers (auto-detected)
• Extra repos (CachyOS, AUR helper)
• Dank Linux desktop on first boot (optional)

Quick Start

Requirements: x86_64, UEFI, Secure Boot disabled

Boot the Arch ISO and run:

curl -fsSL https://archup.run/install | bash

Reboot when done.

What Gets Installed

Base packages: base, linux-firmware, btrfs-progs, limine, efibootmgr, plymouth, networkmanager, openssh, firewalld, sudo, neovim, man-db, git, zram-generator, Fira Sans, JetBrains Mono Nerd Font

Extra packages: snapper, snap-pac, base-devel, Go, Rust/Cargo, GTK3/4/libadwaita, Qt5/6 + Wayland, GStreamer, ffmpeg, Pipewire, Bluetooth (bluez), WiFi (iwd), modern CLI tools (eza, zoxide, fzf, ripgrep, bat, fd, btop, nvtop, yazi, starship, jq, git-delta, dust, duf, tealdeer, tree)

First-boot service (automatic):

• Snapper configured for Btrfs snapshots
• firewalld enabled
• SSH host keys generated
• ble.sh and shell tooling installed
• Optional display manager opt-in

Status

Active development, tested on real hardware.

• TUI installer
• LUKS2 encryption
• First-boot systemd service
• Dank Linux desktop (niri/Hyprland)

Report bugs with logs from /var/log/archup.log.

Acknowledgments

• Omarchy for the modular architecture approach
• Charmbracelet for the TUI toolkit (Bubble Tea, Lipgloss, Huh)