Faster Arch Linux

sudo cp etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/* /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d # may have to make journald.conf.d 
sudo cp etc/logind.conf /etc/systemd/
sudo cp etc/mkinitcpio.conf /etc/
sudo cp etc/udev/rules.d/* /etc/udev/rules.d/ # may have to make rules.d
sudo cp etc/makepkg.conf /etc/makepkg.conf

Silent Boot

On most modern system the boot time can be decreased by limiting the verbosity of their system to a strict minimum, it is also much more aesthetically pleasing.

edit /etc/default/grub lines GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX & GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet loglevel=3 rd.systemd.show_status=auto rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 i915.fastboot=1"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet loglevel=3 rd.systemd.show_status=auto rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 i915.fastboot=1"

edit /etc/sysctl.d/20-quiet-printk.conf

kernel.printk = 3 3 3 3

systemctl edit --full systemd-fsck-root.service
systemctl edit --full systemd-fsck@.service

add these two lines between ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-fsck & TimeoutSec=0

StandardOutput=null
StandardError=journal+console

To remove GRUB loading. Weclome to GRUB! on boot

Only for systems with efi

cd grub-shusher
make
sudo -s
./grub-kernel /boot/efi/EFI/***/grubx64.efi

Programs You Can Install

• preload - Caches programs you use in RAM to launch faster
• dbus-broker - is a drop-in replacement for the libdbus reference implementation, which aims "to provide high performance and reliability, while keeping compatibility to the D-Bus reference implementation".
• irqbalance - distribute hardware interrupts across processors on a multiprocessor system in order to increase performance

sudo pacman -S dbus-broker irqbalance
yay -S preload

systemctl enable --now dbus-broker.service
systemctl enable --now preload.service
systemctl enable --now irqbalance.service

Bonus iwd

iwd (iNet wireless daemon) is a wireless daemon for Linux written by Intel that aims to replace WPA supplicant. The core goal of the project is to optimize resource utilization by not depending on any external libraries and instead utilizing features provided by the Linux Kernel to the maximum extent possible.

iwd can work in standalone mode or in combination with comprehensive network managers like ConnMan, systemd-networkd and NetworkManager.

In my experience it connects much faster.

sudo pacman -S iwd
systemctl enable --now iwd.service

For usage:

• Standalone
• ConnMan
• NetworkManager

Notes

For KDE Desktop Environment Users: Set splash theme to none