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I got pretty close for my first time, got some random error post wiping drive and formatting and mounting it. Not sure exactly what I did wrong post completion and logging in. Then I think I locked myself out of disc encryption and was disheartened and used Archinstall..
Not sure about this meme. It seems dated. Since they added a walk through installed it's just as easy as Debian.
Sure, but Debian with the CLI installer. The normal installer is pretty straight forward but not as easy as calamaris or anaconda. I bet people who can install Debian are skilled enough for archinstall
No. Debian is much easier. Archinstall is still super easy to piss off.
I have endeavour os. Arch btw.
People copy and pasting from the wiki or gpt "pathetic"
Now I kind of want to see just how broken my install gets if I just have ChatGPT guide me through the whole installation.
It gets real messy, lol. I tried to have GPT guide me through figuring out a Node and nvm error in my Arch WSL and it made nightmare spaghetti out of my npm prefix.
It eventually got stuck in a loop of trying to make me do the same two things over and over again and expected different results each time.
People copying gpt commands into terminal is bound to be fked by the troll commands, right? Please.
I've installed arch several times from scratch. Now if I need to I use archinstall. No shame
I've been using arch since archinstall came out. I never installed it reading the wiki.
I sleep like a baby and everything works.
I installed Arch exactly once by hand. Since then I just copy the install with dd from one medium to the next.
I once installed Gentoo from scratch.
I then didn't use Linux for about 15 years, so take from that what you will.
I once installed Gentoo on a netbook. emerge world took 3 days..
We all carry trauma in our lives
When you've already reached the peak, why keep climbing?
Installing Arch manually is not hard, and there are plenty of step-by-step guides.
Figuring out what you need next and then managing this mess is more complicated.
Source: I installed Arch manually btw
Years ago I installed it manually, too. For learning, yes. But regularly, no. The archinstall package is easy but a newbie would struggle there, too. It's just a faster way for skilled Linux Users.
hardmode: I did a fresh install on a HDD that is on verge of being dead. Every-time this thing boots it's a miracle. Somehow dd blanking the disk, plenty of smartctl offline disk surface scans and finally putting btrfs with data in DUP profile resurrected the HDD. I have run btrfs scrub daily or else the os install may bitrot and well.. expire. :D
Edit: Todays catch, I was too late and now I have fix 3 files:
Error summary: read=112
Corrected: 109
Uncorrectable: 3
Unverified: 0
I've installed Arch manually exactly once. (Just for the bragging rights, lol)
My go to way is just installing EndeavourOS. It's basically Arch, but with a nicer installer and reasonable defaults.
I did it once, wrote down all the commands I used in order and then made my own install script. It was a great learning experience
i did that once... watched a video of some guy installing it, wrote down every single command, did it myself, it worked! then the clock system broke and i tried to fix it, couldn't do it because dumb, and reinstalled it. exact same commands as before, but it didn't work, no clue why
then i did the same with some other youtube video, until i just decided to use an arch based distro with an installer
now i just see people talking about archinstall and i'm like... i could've done it with one command? why did nobody tell me?!?!? or did i just ignore everyone who told me? am i stupid?!?!?
Tbf you couldn't always. Archinstall didn't come until a few years ago
hmmm how many years ago? i started using linux (with fedora, then arch a couple of months later) around the end of 2022 or mid 2023
First stable release of Archinstall was 5 years ago according to the releases on GitHub so it already existed
yeah so i just always ignored it's existence
Artix:
any arch based distro:
(and most linux distros in general)
What is this magic? You are telling me that a single command would have spared me an entire day of suffering?
Oh, you use pacstrap and arch-chroot, do you? Back in my day all we had was cp and install and we liked it that way! Kids these days wouldn't know how to install SLS without their Yays and Pac-men.
Imagine installing Arch without having to bindmount dev, proc and sys smh my head
And now you're lost
If this was accurate, the ropes would have snapped and Homer would go hurddling to the base of the mountain.
That's what pacman -Syyu is for. The occasional life support failure and forced bug hunting is part of the experience.
Gentoo stage 3 here.
They discouraged earlier stages in the wiki :(
I'm sorry, sir, but the tests indicate you have Stage 3 Gentoo.
and from what we've gathered about your case, it's terminal
Don't mean to bash your distro choice OP, but they say the best jokes contain a kernel of truth.
I use arch btw, have been for 5 or so years, I open the gates to those who want to use arch install
You are not any lesser for not wanting to install arch manually
Installing arch without archinstall is way too much fucking work. I'd much rather spend time fixing the 10% greater likelihood of encountering issues post install than doing all that fucking bullshit manually. The command line is better for a lot of things but configuring partitions and mount points is not one of them. I demand a fuckin gui for that stuff.
Iβve done it both by the book and arch install. Arch install is just nice.
I did it the manual way probably about 10 times on my Linux learning journey, it was a really good way to learn how Linux itself worked. Now I just use archinstall every time.
I've done it, I've gotten the satisfaction from it, but it's not gonna add any more inches to my e-peen.
"We need more people to use linux, look at what MS is doing to people."
People who have never used linux trying to use and learn linux by using an installer built by awesome members of the Arch team.
"C'mon do you even linux?"