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> Arch doesn't have an installer, and seems almost militantly against providing one, or a lot of other little utilities that could improve the user experience
by sophacles 4y ago
> Arch doesn't have an installer, and seems almost militantly against providing one, or a lot of other little utilities that could improve the user experience
This just changed! The archinstall package is included on install media now and is not considered experimental (according to the wiki page history, that happened on 2022-07-08).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/archinstall https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/archinstall
- Macha 4y agoHuh, it took a while for the wiki to be updated to reflect that. The official announcement was on april 1st, 2021 (the date was almost certainly a joke of how unexpected it was to people now following its development, but the release was no joke): https://archlinux.org/news/installation-medium-with-installer/ https://archlinux.org/news/installation-medium-with-installe...
- rthomas6 4y agoWelp, looks like I'm switching back from Manjaro for my next Linux install.
- boomfunky 4y agoI recently adopted Arch onto my laptop and didn't even realize 'archinstall' wasn't always a thing. I looked up a traditional Arch installation and think I might have skipped it had the installer not been present when I was distro hopping.
- jillesvangurp 4y agoYes, it does a quite decent job of getting you up and running with a bootloader and disk encryption all configured. From there, you can just bootstrap the rest. But that was the main reason for me to pick Manjaro half a year ago.