Yeah I installed that one you’re thinking of.

  • evol@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    23 days ago

    Arch is harder so install to as a recommendation its harder than the others. Though I think the last time I installed it was years ago ik theirs like a graphical installer now??? How the mighty have fallen

    But yeah Gentoo is like in a league of its own

    • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      23 days ago

      There’s no graphical installer officially, no. There are many Arch derivatives with installers though, like CachyOS.

      Installing Arch is literally running like 10 commands, and it’s all very well documented.

      1. Put your Archiso USB stick in and reboot
      2. Format your disks if needed, mkfs
      3. Mount root and boot partitions
      4. Run pacstrap to install base system
      5. Generate fstab
      6. In chroot, set time and locale(s), set password, install bootloader
      7. Choose/install a network manager, like systemd-networkd
      8. Reboot

      Now you’re running Arch. Make a user and install a DE, optionally.

      • Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol
        5·
        22 days ago

        It’s even simpler now: Plug in stick, reboot

        Select the stick as the boot media

        “archinstall”

        Configure

        Done.

        I don’t recommend it to first timers, because the install process does get you a good feel of what you’ll be expected to know, but I’ve been running arch for years I’m not doing that manually anymore xD