Organization

This book is divided into the following sections:

Part I - Introduction

This part contains essential information which is needed to understand the rest of the book.

Part II - Core Components

This section is dedicated to covering core components like security, audio, and graphics. Steam, Wine, and other packages will pick from this section quite heavily. You have some choice on what to install, depending on your use case. This section is laid out linearly, like all the other sections.

Part III - Steam

This part details how to install Steam and the linear line of dependencies required, as well as some configuration for certain packages.

Part IV - Wine

This section goes over installing a toolchain called MinGW-w64, some of the packages necessary to both compile Wine and use it, and lastly how to compile Wine and configure it.

Part V - Quality of Life

This section goes over quality of life improvements and packages to improve the experience with the system after following the main part of the book.

Appendices

The Appendices present information which doesn't belong in the body of book; they are included as reference material. The glossary of acronyms is a handy feature.