Please don't discount the value of building your system the hard way, aka "the Arch way". The more duct tape there is, the more headache you'll have later IMO.

Please don't discount the value of building your system the hard way, aka "the Arch way". The more duct tape there is, the more headache you'll have later IMO. I recommend you sit down with the wonderful Arch Wiki and build your system from scratch over anything else if it can be helped. And of course, contribute :)