how easy is it to install arch? (no anarchy/archinstall)

  • sandalbucket@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 months ago

    There is no such thing as easy or hard.

    Give it a try, fuck it up, and give it a try again. Try not to fuck it up in the same way as the first time. Repeat until it works - it will work eventually.

    It took me about 6 hours and 3 disk re-formats my first time. I was particularly bad at it. I barely knew what a disk was, nevermind a partition.

    Actually I’m still not sure what a partition is.

    You’ll do fine :)

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    3 months ago

    Just follow the wiki and you’ll be fine. I did it when I was in highschool. My friend showed me Ubuntu and I used it for about a month then jumped straight to arch

  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    3 months ago

    It’s as easy as following any set of instructions. Whether or not you actually understand what the instructions are doing is an entirely different story. If you actually want to learn how to operate a posix system, doing a bunch of command line installs of Linux isn’t going to help you with that. What will help is living in something with excellent documentation like OpenBSD, with minimal reliance on external tooling. Once you have the skills, they’ll transfer anywhere.

  • uis@lemm.ee
    1·
    3 months ago

    Not as easy as Gentoo based on what I heard. But installing Gentoo takes quite some time.

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    1·
    3 months ago

    It’s better than it used to be. It might still require some basic cli skills. Especially formatting disks and mount points. And file system types. Etc.

    I know manjaro makes it even easier.

  • Bob Smith@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    3 months ago

    Easy if you go step by step and don’t accidentally skip anything. Archinstall will get you to the same result with lower risk of failure, in a tenth of the amount of time spent. And unless you install operating systems for a living, it doesn’t matter how you get there. Source: Installed Arch on about a dozen different devices, twice without Archinstall.

    If you’re looking to learn something, do Linux from Scratch instead. The process is way more granular, way more documented, and way more educational than parroting the steps of installing Arch from the wiki.