Installing Arch Linux on a 15" Razer Blade 2020 (by your pal @nasser)
How to Install Arch Linux in 2020 [Step by Step Guide]
Followed with only a few issues
Nouveau Spam
Booting from USB caused the graphics driver to freak out and spew errors containing nouveau SCHED_ERROR. This was fixed by pressing e before booting Linux from the USB menu and adding nouveau.modeset=0 to the end of the kernel parameters, as described in:
Internet Services Not Running
For some reason two internet services did not start for me. I had to run the following before the steps involving iwctl:
systemctl start iwd
systemctl start dhcpcd
Old Keys
I’ve been using the same USB image for years and the keys are out of date at this point. Before doing pacstrap I have to do:
pacman -S archlinux-keyring
Finally make sure to install internet connectivity stuff before rebooting
pacman -S netctl dialog wpa_supplicant dhcpcd
I opted for netctl as that worked well on my past Linux machine. Set up an initial profile with wifi-menu. It creates a filed named /etc/netctl/$interface-$network where $interface is the name of your wifi interface and $network is the name of your wifi network. I had to add the like ForceConnect=yes to get mine to work consistently, following