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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Arch is unironically easy.

    You only need to know two commands:

    archinstall

    and

    sudo pacman -Syu

    PS: If my 60 year old mom can do it, anyone can.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    I installed Arch using archinstall and my system finished with missing KDE and important packages. I was also missing secure boot...

    Staying on Debian.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    How long ago was that? I have installed Arch with archinstall on ~10 different PCs over the last 4 years without any issues. Maybe I just got lucky, though.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

    A few days ago.

    Problably because I'm used to Debian.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Archinstall works until it doesn't. Recently I tried Luks and BTRFS more than 6 times leading to a script error each and every time. Could I have done something simpler and archinstall work? Possibly. But it offers those things out of the box and for it to fail each and every time ultimately led me back to the wiki to do it manually.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

    I tried Luks and BTRFS more than 6 times leading to a script error each and every time.

    This was actually my experience also, so I went back to a manual install to just get it done. I think the archinstall script won't get any configuration of device-mapper/LVM right (including disk encryption with cryptsetup). The disk encrypt setup had even more hoops to go through than just LVM.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

    Wasn't able to have luks and lvm installed with arch-install. Maybe it's changed now, but also without the script it's very easy to do.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    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.