how easy is it to install arch?

LadyMeow , 7 days ago

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

Yttra , 4 days ago

With archinstall? Ridiculously easy.

I’d just look up each of the options it gives you so you can decide what you want or what works best, but as long as you have an internet connection you can just choose your options and away you go.

If you only have wifi, add another 5-8 minutes of learning how to connect to your access point with iw

cy_narrator , 6 days ago

Cant do if you never try

PumpkinEscobar , 6 days ago

Why no arch install?

EverythingIsALot OP , 6 days ago

cuz doing shit manually is cool

spittingimage , 6 days ago

I’m a perma-noob and I was able to do it. Had to re-do a couple of steps because I interpreted instructions that were meant to be literal, but the wiki pages are very comprehensive. I just had to pay attention to the details.

uis , 7 days ago

Not as easy as Gentoo based on what I heard. But installing Gentoo takes quite some time.

xycu , 6 days ago

Gentoo has binary packages now, so install can be quite fast.

uis , 6 days ago

True. It also had binary packages for huge packages like firefox and libreoffice for a very long time.

Andrzej , 7 days ago

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

theshatterstone54 , 7 days ago

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

0x2d , 6 days ago

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 , 6 days ago

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