Meanwhile, in "Kat continues to install Arch", my system is now to a nice, lovely base point. I've got i3 set up pretty nicely (using an old config of mine, so I do need to make some changes), I've got a basic assortment of stuff set up including discord and firefox, and I even have the ability to type äç©éñtêð (accented) characters! (And, incidentally, not keep typing spaces after quotation marks.) Woo!