For my lightweight desktop machine - Nightingale - I went through testing few solutions to use it without a mouse.

I started having interest into this kind of solution with the book "Building your mouseless development environment" by Matthieu Cneude, and with David Heinemeier Hansson proposing Omarchy, I decided to go further and to compare the tools. (Truth be told, the interest really started during my highe education, when a friend a mine introduced me to vi... but it was not enough to convince me at the time, even if I made the effort and started to use vim at that time, to never go back to other CLI text editors)

Hardware

Fujitsu Futro s930

Installation of Archlinux

FR keyboard

loadkeys fr

setup

I could go the nerd way like for the few first times I have installed Arch, but for sake of speed and efficiency, let's achieve this step with the archlinstall tool.

Profile : Minimal  
Bootloader : GRUB 
Network : Copy ISO network configuration  
Swap : zram

Next steps

Building your mouseless development environment

From the installation of Arch, I followed the steps as described in the book.