nonsense. I learned the arch linux installation from the arch web page. I've stepped through it probably 50 times over the years to install various systems.

nonsense. I learned the arch linux installation from the arch web page. I've stepped through it probably 50 times over the years to install various systems. It becomes this "choose your own adventure" style installation, and you quite quickly get worn down by the branches and start making expedient choices over more involved choices. So many of my laptop installs have had simple partitions, systemd boot, and on and on and ending with a text login. Each choice for a more capable system would require extensive learning and the risk of having to start over. These instructions take you through complex choices like secure boot, LVM, choosing a desktop, a graphical boot and more. This installation guide gives you a fully functioning system (like you would get with a full distribtion). The author had to learn from a fully-functional manjaro install, and then walked us through the same thing with arch. Having a full desktop os with arch in the end is a really wonderful goal, and might be worth the risk of having problems with the install (which I seem to get with arch anyway)