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Arch is unironically easy.
You only need to know two commands:
and
PS: If my 60 year old mom can do it, anyone can.
Some weeks ago I tried to install Arch on an old laptop, and since it have been many years since I've installed Arch for the last time, and I've heard good things about
archinstall
, I decided to try it. Nothing fancy: single drive, LXQt, no encryption, auto partitioning...I tried maybe 4 or 5 times, configuring different settings in the script, and every single time it gave me a broken installation: no GRUB, or no display manager, or incorrect video driver (Intel, no Nvidia here). I supposedly configured all the options correctly, but I never got a working system. In the end I snapped and searched for some video tutorial and installed Arch the old way. I have no desire to use that script again, at least for a long time.