Arch Linux One Of The Easiest Distros To Install

Arch Linux now comes with the "archinstall" helper library which automates the installation of Arch. It is packaged with different pre-configured installers, such as a "guided" installer. "archinstall" makes Arch one of the easiest Linux distros to install.

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[cheflA]

When I started with Linux I was told to take the time and install arch Linux from scratch. I took a whole Sunday for me not knowing anything. But you learn so much doing this that I still advice colleagues of mine to do it this way, if they want to learn more about Linux.

[gunnygordon]

I used this video to install Arch early this morning and learned about iwctl in the process. Thanks DT really like your content.

[Fiftyblessings]

I’m still new to Linux and tried introducing myself to it by installing Linux mint, but trying to configure my hardware was a nightmare. After I heard about arch’s rolling release, I switched over to see how bad it could be, ran arch-install and everything’s been running fine since. I’ve learned more about Linux and have actually been running it through arch, it just works

[dalfvideos]

I don't think installing arch the old way was such a big deal (it's mostly just reading along and following isntructions, if you can build an ikea table then you can install arch). But it was very time consuming, so this is a great change.

Overall I think the main problem people run into with arch is after the install. Since it's so open to new things and lets you do whatever you want, if you don't know what you're doing and you just update all the time and install random aur packages you might end up "breaking it". I prefer to run fedora or debian based stuff because they tend to have a safety net for my own stupidity, haha.

[Kokuraman]

Mr. DT: Love your "strong and complicated" every time in all your vids!

[gabrielbeaudin]

I had to install on my media center yesterday. I've already installed using the guide on different machines but yesterday I really didn't fell like going through it again. The install script worked perfect and it made my day.

[sourcedecay]

I recently moved from Win11 to Arch after a very long break from linux (last time I used it, I was running gentoo in like 2008 as desktop, then centos in 2011 for a home server). I used archinstall because I just wanted something up and running fast and already know the linux guts so I wouldn't have been learning much doing it manually. Archinstall is great.

[dexmark]

I like how arch is getting better for new users to linux for us. keep upo the good videos :)

[kennystrawnmusic]

The mirror selection menu allows you to only select American mirrors instead of foreign ones which IMO is highly recommended if you want faster downloads. Also, the bootloader selection only defaults to GRUB on systems that don’t have UEFI; it defaults to systemd-boot on systems that do.

[bartek...]

I've tried this method half a year ago and I can confim, that it's way quicker and more user friendly than old, manual approach. With old way I was always forgetting something and was need to chroot again with the usb stick.

[cejannuzi]

I think for beginners it will still be daunting because they don't really know what each step is doing or what the choices are or why one would choose something.

[shutdowncnn]

DT Great video! Two thumbs up! The Archlinux script install has been out for a while and makes installing easy. I made exactly the same mistakes you did (if you didn't do it on purpose to make a point) with the partitioning and formatting the disk or disks. But I still like using my method of installing via ssh since I have several computers. Boot a Archlinux install thumb drive on the target machine to be installed, start sshd, then create passwd and copy the IP address. Then login from a second host machine into the target machine, use your text notes to copy and paste into a terminal once login for your custom install. One or more installs can be done this way. :)

[grenvillephillips]

I have to say that I was very impressed by the install script, and it saved me (a bad typist) more than an hour.

[manee]

I have installed it and that was easy like a piece og cake . amazing video DT :)

[jesse]

It has gotten better. I honestly love using it.

[michaelkrailo]

Wow, that was an incredibly easy way to install Linux. I wish all the distributions had this way of installing. The only thing that screwed me up was forgetting about the iso file still selected as the boot device in virtualbox. After shutting down and removing it, all was well. There is a lot of stuff that needs to be installed though. Simple stuff like zip and unzip are missing and a lot of scripts depend on these utilities being there. I had to do a lot of research into configuring Alacritty and installing fonts. The newer version has a TOML config file and I just went straight to the documentation on it and learned how to configure everything but the default configuration for fonts was not to my liking so that was a must. I never had to mess with fonts in other distributions as the defaults were all great to work with.

Now just to fill you in on the downside, I tried to do another install at work from memory because I thought it was so easy and neglected to select multilib and my Alacritty terminal had no visible characters in it, so the terminal was unusable! Had to Ctrl-Alt-F3 to do anything that required terminal. I didn't know how to enable the multilib from the command line, so I just did another re-install selecting mulitlib this time and then I couldn't log in! This turned out to be due to me selecting the "graphics acceleration" setting in the Virtualbox settings before booting up. My Intel video card did not like that setting and locked up the login screen when attempting to enter a password. After turning off that setting, everything started to work just like the installation that went well on my home setup.

[ringo]

I can understand that there might be practical reasons why going through the "full" Arch installation process might be better, but Linux becoming easier to use is a good thing. This comes across like Arch people being mad that the process is being democratized for people who don't want to bother with the entire installation process.

[MacroAcc]

completely agree. i have installed arch thousands of times on different computers due to it's easiness. before archinstall it was a good distro, now it's the only distro that matters

[dzphdlm]

Have done the normal installation in the past but used the install script for my more recent build. it is a handy time saver. nice to have the choice for the time poor.

[peter_hauer]

Archinstall is a good option if you installed the manual way 100times or just have to quickly install some machines. The problem with Arch now easier and widely available is, that beginners should be aware how you update Arch in a safe way and debug if the system breaks. There were installer even with GUI before archinstall that is not the problem. If the user is not afraid of keeping his system running Arch in my opinion is the best Linux for everyone.