Building a Secure Arch Linux Workstation with Full Disk Encryption
Overview Building this Arch Linux workstation from scratch taught me more about Linux internals than years of using pre-configured distributions. For DevOps engineers, understanding the fundamentals - from bootloaders to network stacks to display servers - isn’t optional. It’s what separates those who can truly troubleshoot production systems from those who just run apt install. This Dell Precision 5540 build uses LUKS2 encryption, LVM for storage flexibility, systemd-networkd for networking, and Hyprland as a Wayland compositor. Every component was chosen deliberately and configured manually. ...