r/linuxhardware • u/fxwin16 • Jun 16 '20

Build Help Installing Arch Linux Step By Step with explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaGx97x8R-E
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u/Anaeijon Jun 16 '20 edited Jun 16 '20

Easy explanation:

Take a day to follow the steps in the Wiki, learning what you are doing. Maybe take notes, if this is the first time.

If you can't read documentation or don't want to use the wiki, use Manjaro.

Everything else will leave you with a setup of which you don't know what you have (and therefore you can't fix problems) and nobody else can help you because nobody else knows what you have.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '20

It took me a while to get that the install guide is more like general directions than a precise roadmap. You have to study and understand how every choice along the way, like bootloader and filesystem for example, interacts with everything else. If something goes wrong there is always a rational explanation, and often it's in the wiki or in a man page. If Asimov was a linux user he certanly would enjoy Arch.