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dinckelman ,

If you have reading comprehension of, at least, an 8th-grader, you’ll do just fine. The instructions are all there

MajorMajormajormajor ,

at most, an 8th-grader

Phew, looks like my 6th grade education is finally paying off!

RandomLegend ,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Takes just over a minute… How hard can it be

thingsiplay ,

wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

je_skirata ,

It’s easy if you can follow directions, hard if you don’t have directions, impossible if you don’t have directions and don’t know what you’re doing; archinstall is effortless.

neidu2 ,

Pretty easy. It’s not so much using intuition as it is reading step-by-step instructions. If you can use a cook book, you can install arch.

Source: I use once installed arch, btw

whostosay ,

Add a pinch of salt l, and a smidgen of sugar later

neidu2 ,

Serve after breaking your dependencies to taste

Pacmanlives ,

It’s not to bad as others are saying. Real question is to why you don’t want to use the installer?

They are quite good. I just used one for a Gentoo install because I have better things to do with my time. Can I do it for the millionth time sure by hand sure but what’s the point? End result is more consistent than me as a human doing it by hand

haroldstork ,

I always manage to forget the locale or NetworkManager or set a password for root etc… Unless you have a hyper-specific partitioning scheme or system config these work great

Reddfugee42 ,

You always forget to set a password for root?

catastrophicblues ,

Exactly. archinstall is pretty nice, and if you want the frustration of dealing with random errors, it’s still there. But it’s straightforward (but keep the docs handy since you’ll likely need them).

Telorand ,

Practice in a VM and see for yourself! I did that, set everything up, and ultimately decided it was more system admin detail than I wanted to take on. But as far as ease goes, it’s not especially hard, there’s just not much in the way of hand-holding or preset configs, and you’ll likely find there’s a lot of preinstalled drivers and things you take for granted.

LadyMeow ,

Its easy, follow the steps in the wiki and you’ll be fine.

GravitySpoiled ,

archinstall is easy. The hard part about arch is maintaining it and keeping up to date with linux innovation. As long as you keep reading forum posts and news about linux and browse the arch wiki, there’s nothing wrong with it. If you do not ever read about advances on linux, then don’t use arch.

Evil_incarnate ,

If you can put together Lego with the instructions or IKEA furniture, you’ll be fine. It took me three tries, and I learnt stuff from each mistake, so the worst that can happen is you learn.

treadful ,
@treadful@lemmy.zip avatar

As a very long time Arch user I wouldn’t say “easy” like everyone else seems to. I absolutely would not suggest it for a first distro for someone, which is what I would classify as the “easy” level.

But if you’re comfortable with using Linux, the terminal, and being able to follow written documentation you’ll be able to do it just fine maybe with a little frustration the first time. If you’re installing to a laptop, make sure to look up your model on the wiki first.

Andrzej ,

It’s not rocket science. You might need a wired connection to begin with though

theshatterstone54 ,

Not really. This 1 minute video is all you need: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zqITuprlL8

0x2d ,

you can use iwctl

example:

list interfaces (usually wlan0)

$ ip link

enter iwctl:

$ iwctl

rescan:

$ <iwctl> station [interface] scan

connect:

$ <iwctl> station [interface] connect [ssid]

list networks:

$ <iwctl> station [interface] get-networks

exit:

$ <iwctl> exit

Andrzej ,

Yes, but what if you need to download additional drivers for your wireless card

krolden ,
@krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

The reason to follow the archwiki install instructions is because it teaches you how to do a lot more than just install the OS. This will help you a lot down the line and not just with arch.

rostselmasch ,
@rostselmasch@lemmygrad.ml avatar

I did it few times between 2008 and 2010 when I was way younger. Idk how I did it, but after two times I was used to it and learned also a lot. Today I don’t have the nerves to install arch without archinstall or anarchy. The wiki helped me a lot. The wiki gives an excellent guide to install arch and to set up everything you need. It is well written enough, that no deep Linux knowledge is needed

The archlinux wiki is great for everything. I used it when I had Fedora, Debian or sometimes if I used OpenBSD.

collagenial ,

In general, I would say it’s not hard, but it’s not easy.

When I did it, I had some moderate Linux experience but I was by no means an expert. I did a few practice runs on a VM and made myself a runbook before I completed the install on my real computer. This allowed me to get a real sense for what I was doing and what each step did, exactly. When I ran into differences on my actual computer, the time I spent researching and doing it on the VM helped me to overcome any confusion and complete the install successfully. The wiki has all the information you need.

So, from beginning to end, I spent a weekend on it, including the few dry runs I did on the VM and configuring my system after the actual install was complete. If you’re not already quite familiar with Linux, I think it’s wise to do it this way because you build in time to learn, as opposed to just getting a working system as quickly as possible.

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