Oh, you use
pacstrapandarch-chroot, do you? Back in my day all we had wascpandinstalland we liked it that way! Kids these days wouldn’t know how to install SLS without their Yays and Pac-men.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
People here are always talking about different distros, trying this one and then that one until they found what they like. Are you guys really just reinstalling your OS that often? Reinstalling all the programs you want and everything?
I did for a few years, finally think I’m settled on arch for desktop, but for servers, hurry is still out
Yes. About once every 2-3 months. It’s something of a hobby.
I followed the wiki and pulled off a successful install… On a vm. Once I felt confident and ready I remembered arch install was a thing and thought “sure I’ll try it, it’ll definetly break and I’ll just use the wiki to install” then it worked without a hitch. I’m still running arch with no issues.
The one time I tried to manually install arch on a VM years and years ago it didn’t work and I wrote Arch off. Guess what I’m running now? Well, Cachy, but lol. It’s Arch. And guess what? It’s got a simplified install process.
I’ll confess my first Arch installation was with the script, but in the end I reinstalled manually just to test myself and to have hibernation enabled. Still a noob but I can only go up from here.
“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?”
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.
thats fine and thats the exact usecase for arch install. This meme is for people who never install it once manually and use archinstall to get a working configured system.
Honestly, I had wayyyy more issues when using archinstall than just installing it normally by the wiki. I might just be stupid though :P
Installed manually first then later using archinstall. I came across an issue that wouldn’t format a partition. Saw the issue on github too. So had to format manually and continue.
I gave up and used endeavouros instead.
And now you’re lost
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.
I’ve done it both by the book and arch install. Arch install is just nice.
The rationale in the OP is that with archinstall, an inexperienced user will have no idea where to even begin diagnosing any issues post install. Whereas installing manually is sort of a barrier to entry that ensures you know what you’re doing.
Went with EndeavourOS instead so at least I have more than an ice cubes chance in hell of not borking my install
I installed arch without it and it was a fucking struggle. Didn’t know it existed til after. Like actually hours after
Archinstall made my root partition 25 GiBs the first time I ever messed around on arch. That was fun when it filled up.
Cause following the arch wiki is sooooooo much of an efort
I found the effort was in researching and choosing which components to use, rather than actually installing once chosen. It’s easy if you know exactly what you’re gonna install, but on that first build it definitely takes effort if you want to read into all the options and make educated choices
