They don't really "make it challenging", they just didn't bother to create a GUI or ncurses installer. If you know a few things about Linux systems and can rea

They don't really "make it challenging", they just didn't bother to create a GUI or ncurses installer. If you know a few things about Linux systems and can read instructions, it's really straightforward to install without those, so Arch maintainers are free to spend their time on other projects. It's something of a meme that the installation is some kind of hazing ritual, but I don't think of it that way. There are plenty of other distributions with GUI installers for the people who can't or don't want to spend some time understanding how they work.