Its easy, follow the steps in the wiki and you'll be fine.
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Practice in a VM and see for yourself! I did that, set everything up, and ultimately decided it was more system admin detail than I wanted to take on. But as far as ease goes, it's not especially hard, there's just not much in the way of hand-holding or preset configs, and you'll likely find there's a lot of preinstalled drivers and things you take for granted.
It’s not to bad as others are saying. Real question is to why you don’t want to use the installer?
They are quite good. I just used one for a Gentoo install because I have better things to do with my time. Can I do it for the millionth time sure by hand sure but what’s the point? End result is more consistent than me as a human doing it by hand
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Pretty easy. It's not so much using intuition as it is reading step-by-step instructions. If you can use a cook book, you can install arch.
Source: I ~~use~~ once installed arch, btw
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It's easy if you can follow directions, hard if you don't have directions, impossible if you don't have directions and don't know what you're doing; archinstall is effortless.
If you have reading comprehension of, at least, an 8th-grader, you'll do just fine. The instructions are all there
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