> I can at least tell you that people don't choose Arch over Debian for the installation experience Well, I do (sample of one). The Arch installation has been

> I can at least tell you that people don't choose Arch over Debian for the installation experience Well, I do (sample of one). The Arch installation has been streamlined a lot. Now it’s all about 0) boot the image (cd, usb, PXE), which is actually an Arch install a) creating your filesystem (pick you poison), and mounting it b) telling pacman to install base, base-devel, and a bootloader on the target fs c) installing and configuring the bootloader d) rebooting Done. d-i barely takes care of that for you, it’s “just” wrapping it behind a UI (which is sort of useful, sure saves one from reading docs, but has been an annoying abstraction/obfuscation/magic layer for me more often than not). The remainder (setting up X/Wayland/whatever is no different on Debian than on Arch, as d-i does not help much.