> nobody has ever been able to install arch linux by hand
> everyone says they have but they all know they're lying
> nobody wants to admit it because they are afraid of being made fun of
I've done it a couple of times on a few computers. Don't see anything really magical about it.
Did you get stuck in any of the simple steps despite the fact there's a million of guides/forum posts for it on the internet ?
Does reading the guide don't count as "by hand" ?
It's fucking easy.
The hardest part in installing arch is getting an internet connection. The rest is piss easy a monkey could do it.
>a typical day on /g/
>lol your [hardware/software] sux
>mine doesn't
>lol ur dumb
>and I'm not
It's seriously easy. My laptop and raspberry pi runs arch
it's really easy to install but also a very dumb idea to do so
>>50784325
bump
>>50784547
No its really not a dumb idea. Every distro should have laid out instructions on how to install by hand. It makes the distro way more flexible
>>50785859
because we all need to tweak kernel params to browse porn on the internet all day as efficiently as possible
>>50784435
>The hardest part in installing arch is getting an internet connection.
kek. justdhcpcd &
orwifi-menu
Just install Antergos lol
>>50785909
Arch doesn't require you to set kernel parameters friend.
>format/partiton disks (fdisk/ mkfs)
>mount partitions
>run a single command (pacstrap) to pull arch base packages
>basically copy and paste the rest of the instructions for some basic userspace configuration
>install a bootloader
Arch is simple to install, and you're not bound to options that are put into some flaky GUI
>>50785909
>can't tell the difference between the Arch and Gentoo memes
>>50785974
Having a GUI sometimes gets a lot flak for no reason at all. A good GUI should give you all the options the command line could have.
>>50786012
My problem main problem with GUI installers is usually the partitioning and formatting, debian is probably the best case as a GUI with this. But none support modern filesystems properly like btrfs with subvolumes which is a deal breaker
The rest of the user space configuration might as well be a gui, setting locale and fstab etc, but its still not exactly hard to configure by terminal
