You do make some good points, but... > For me, it’s either downloading Arch Linux media, which is 400 MB or something. ...that's fine, if you have a separate

You do make some good points, but... > For me, it’s either downloading Arch Linux media, which is 400 MB or something. ...that's fine, if you have a separate non-compromised computer handy to download the installer from. Which not everyone will. ...and, is the only software you use included in that default 400 MB base system? How much else do you have to install? Did you keep a list of the extra packages you used, or are you going to have to keep going back to `pacman -S ...` every 5 minutes for the first couple of hours as you run into that thing you use frequently suddenly not being there?