Getting Started

Go through the normal installer, set up according to taste and make sure to choose ‘sys’ unless you know what you’re doing (in which case, why are you reading this?)
apk add mosh micro doas i3wm i3status dmenu i3lock chromium qutebrowser vim rsync hugo st tmux bash mandoc pandoc acpid xsetroot setxkbmap powertop iwd docs git brightnessctl

note: remove the ‘docs’ and ‘mandoc’ packages if you don’t care about having local documentation handy.

Setting up doas

As root:

addgroup user wheel

We installed doas, now we just have to make sure that your non-root user can make use of it:

edit /etc/doas.conf (should be populated automatically) and uncomment the following line:

permit persist :wheel

Setting up i3 and Xorg

doas setup-xorg-base
doas addgroup user audio
doas addgroup user video
doas addgroup user input
doas apk add xorg-server xf86-video-intel xf86-input-synaptics xinit
touch .xinitrc ; echo “exec i3” » .xinitrc
reboot
log in
startx

Power Saving

Get some tunables going with powertop. I didn’t do much else and am getting a solid 9 hours out of the 9 cell.
`doas powertop

Configure Wifi

edit /etc/iwd/main.conf
add dhcpcd instead
change EnableNetworkConfiguration to True

disable wpasupplicant:
rc-update delete wpa_supplicant boot
rc-update add iwd boot

configure wifi

Audio

doas apk add pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pulseaudio-alsa
(need this for pactl to work)

doas rc-update add pulseaudio default?

Decent fonts:
doas apk add font-terminus font-inconsolata font-dejavu font-noto font-noto-cjk font-awesome font-noto-extra

Dotfiles I like to add:

copy over:

.xinitrc
.Xresources
.i3status.conf
.config/i3/config
.bashrc (optional)

micro /etc/passwd, change to bash if you’d like.

Setting Up SyncThing

doas apk add syncthing syncthing-openrc
doas rc-update add syncthing boot

create the file /etc/conf.d/syncthing with the contents ‘SYNCTHING_USER=YOUR_USERNAME_HERE’

Then change the permissions on /var/lib/syncthing:
chown YOUR_USERNAME_HERE:users /var/lib/syncthing

reboot