Yeah I installed that one you're thinking of.

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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Comparing Arch and Gentoo is wild. Arch is so much more simple and well documented.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    Arch is harder so install to as a recommendation its harder than the others. Though I think the last time I installed it was years ago ik theirs like a graphical installer now??? How the mighty have fallen

    But yeah Gentoo is like in a league of its own

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    There's no graphical installer officially, no. There are many Arch derivatives with installers though, like CachyOS.

    Installing Arch is literally running like 10 commands, and it's all very well documented.

    1. Put your Archiso USB stick in and reboot
    2. Format your disks if needed, mkfs
    3. Mount root and boot partitions
    4. Run pacstrap to install base system
    5. Generate fstab
    6. In chroot, set time and locale(s), set password, install bootloader
    7. Choose/install a network manager, like systemd-networkd
    8. Reboot

    Now you're running Arch. Make a user and install a DE, optionally.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    It's even simpler now: Plug in stick, reboot

    Select the stick as the boot media

    "archinstall"

    Configure

    Done.

    I don't recommend it to first timers, because the install process does get you a good feel of what you'll be expected to know, but I've been running arch for years I'm not doing that manually anymore xD

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