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 The idea is a one liner to have a quick workbench, like flipping a door on its side for a quick desk.
 
-It's a bootstrap script for my personal desktop environment
+It's a bootstrap script for my personal desktop environment that is:
+
+1. Reliable
+1. Fast
+1. Made from off as many off the shelf parts as possible
+1. Simple (see above)
+1. Decent looking
 
 Use as much or as little as you need.
 
 ## Install
 You should have an [Arch](https://archlinux.org) system, you can run this immediately after a minimal `archinstall` setup:
 
+If you want recommendations for archinstall I'll say:
+
+- [Btrfs](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs)
+- I personally dislike [Swap](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap) (don't run out of ram if you don't have swap) 
+- [PipeWire](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire)
+- [linux-zen](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel)
+- [NetworkManager](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager)
+
+Shell install also works on Ubuntu Server 22.04 so it should work on any buntu or Mint, Pop, etc. and maybe Debian too
+
 ### Quick shell:
 As your new user in your new user's home directory run: (will overwrite some user files)
 
@@ -24,11 +40,12 @@ to get the rest and then:
 
 ```startx``` to load it.
 
+but it might be missing some things depending on your install profile (still testing)
+
 ## Post Install
 1. Neovim will be confused on first start until `:PackerSync` is run
 
 ### TODO:
 - support more distros
-- handle errors
 - make sure full install actually has all deps handled