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IMPORTANT: Do these steps inside the Linux (you might temporarily install Ubuntu WSL)

Download a bootstrap archive:

curl https://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/archlinux/iso/2023.06.01/archlinux-bootstrap-x86_64.tar.gz -o archlinux-bootstrap-x86_64.tar.gz

Extract it:

sudo tar -xzf archlinux-bootstrap-x86_64.tar.gz

CD into the bootstrap directory:

cd root.x86_64/

Add root FS to the new archive:

sudo tar -czvf ../ArchWSL.tar.gz .

Copy to the needed directory.

Import the distro with the following command:

wsl --import <desired_distro_name> <path: D:\foo\bar> ArchWSL.tar.gz

Log in:

wsl -d <desired_distro_name>

Generate mirror list for your country:

Get any enrty from the generated list and put it into the WSL ArchLinux mirrorlist:

Put the first mirror to the ArchLinux mirrorlist:

echo 'Server = http://arch.midov.pl/arch/$repo/os/$arch' >> /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Populate the ArchLinux keyring:

pacman-key --init

pacman-key --populate

pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

Install the base system:

pacman -S base base-devel fish vim neovim git sudo ccache linux linux-headers linux-firmware

Configure the system

  • Configure the timezone
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/<YOUR_TIMEZONE_CITY> /etc/localtime
  • Sync hardware time in UTC
hwclock --systohc --utc
  • Set up the host name
echo rustatian > /etc/hostname
  • Uncomment needed locales
nvim /etc/locale.gen
  • Generate locales
locale-gen
  • Set default locale
localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Create the user and password:

  • Set the root password
passwd
  • Create a user (note: you may use any shell instead of /bin/fish)
useradd -mg users -G wheel,storage,power -s /bin/fish valery
  • Set the password for your user
passwd valery

visudo -> uncomment the following line --> %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
  • OPTIONAL: Add to the Defaults section (visudo)
Defaults timestamp_type=global
Defaults timestamp_timeout=15

Install the needed packages (my example):

pacman -S gnome gnome-extra pipewire pipewire-pulse gnome-keyring seahorse docker docker-compose clang llvm lldb gdb lld cmake perf
strace tcpdump lsof iotop xdg-user-dirs xdg-utils ttf-font-awesome

Generate unique machine ID:

systemd-machine-id-setup

Set the default user (/etc/wsl.conf):

[boot]
systemd=true
[user]
default=valery

Shutdown the WSL and enjoy with ArchLinux:

wsl --shutdown