After installing, please begin by checking if you can or cannot install a package. The basic syntax for this is bulge i [package], or bulge gi [group].
If you are missing a package critical to the use of bulge, boot into the live usb and mount the drive. After this, run ROOT_DIR=[mount location] bulge i [package], and you should have the package on your main install
A common problem is wrong SSL certificates being downloaded. To remedy, please run these commands to purge the wrong certs.
rm -rf /etc/pkirm -rf /etc/sslmake-ca -gln -s /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt /etc/ssl/cert.pem
As with most distros, you will want to add an user. To do so, please run useradd -m [user]. After this, run EDITOR=vim visudo and add group wheel to the sudoer's file. Then run usermod -a -G wheel [user] to add your user to wheel.
Out of all DE's and WM's to port to bulge, the developers went with Gnome. Regardless of building our own WM, we will install this here