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+#### IMPORTANT: Do these steps inside the Linux (or you might temporarily install Ubuntu WSL)
+
+#### Download a bootstrap archive:
+
+```
+curl https://mirror.eloteam.tk/archlinux/iso/2023.02.01/archlinux-bootstrap-x86_64.tar.gz -o archlinux-bootstrap-x86_64.tar.gz
+```
+
+#### Extract it:
+
+```
+tar -xzf archlinux-bootstrap-x86_64.tar.gz
+```
+
+#### Add root FS to the new archive:
+
+```
+tar -czvf ArchWSL.tar.gz .
+```
+
+#### Copy to the needed directory.
+
+#### Import the distro with the following command:
+
+```
+wsl --import <desired_distro_name> <path: D:\foo\bar> ArchWSL.tar.gz
+```
+
+#### Log in:
+
+```
+wsl -d <desired_distro_name>
+```
+
+#### Generate mirror list for your country:
+
+- https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/
+
+#### Get any enrty from the generated list and put it into the WSL ArchLinux mirrorlist:
+
+
+#### Put the first mirror to the ArchLinux mirrorlist:
+
+```
+echo echo 'Server = http://arch.midov.pl/arch/$repo/os/$arch' >> /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
+```
+
+#### Populate the ArchLinux keyring:
+
+```
+pacman-key --init
+```
+
+``` 
+pacman-key --populate
+```
+
+```
+pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring
+```
+
+#### Install the base system:
+
+```
+pacman -S base base-devel fish vim neovim git sudo ccache linux linux-headers linux-firmware
+```
+
+#### Configure the system
+
+- Configure the timezone
+```
+ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/<YOUR_TIMEZONE_CITY> /etc/localtime
+```
+
+- Sync hardware time in UTC
+```
+hwclock --systohc --utc
+```
+
+- Set up the host name
+```
+echo rustatian > /etc/hostname
+```
+
+- Uncomment needed locales
+```
+nvim /etc/locale.gen
+```
+
+- Generate locales
+```
+locale-gen
+```
+
+- Set default locale
+```
+localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+```
+
+#### Create the user and password:
+
+- Set the root password
+```
+passwd
+```
+
+- Create a user (note: you may use any shell instead of `/bin/fish`)
+```
+useradd -mg users -G wheel,storage,power -s /bin/fish valery
+```
+
+- Set the password for your user
+```
+passwd valery
+```
+
+
+```
+visudo -> uncomment the following line --> %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
+```
+
+- OPTIONAL: Add to the Defaults section (visudo)
+```
+Defaults timestamp_type=global
+Defaults timestamp_timeout=15
+```
+
+#### Install the needed packages (my example):
+
+```
+pacman -S gnome gnome-extra pipewire pipewire-pulse gnome-keyring seahorse docker docker-compose clang llvm lldb gdb lld cmake perf
+strace tcpdump lsof iotop xdg-user-dirs xdg-utils ttf-font-awesome
+```
+
+#### Generate unique machine ID:
+
+```
+systemd-machine-id-setup 
+```
+
+#### Set the default user (`/etc/wsl.conf`):
+
+``` 
+[boot]
+systemd=true
+[user]
+default=valery
+```
+
+#### Shutdown the WSL and enjoy with ArchLinux:
+
+```
+wsl --shutdown
+```