And now you're lost

If this was accurate, the ropes would have snapped and Homer would go hurddling to the base of the mountain.

I've installed Arch manually exactly once. (Just for the bragging rights, lol) My go to way is just installing EndeavourOS. It's basically Arch, but with a nicer installer and reasonable defaults.

Installing Arch manually is not hard, and there are plenty of step-by-step guides.

Figuring out what you need next and then managing this mess is more complicated.

Source: I installed Arch manually btw

People copy and pasting from the wiki or gpt "pathetic"

I did it the manual way probably about 10 times on my Linux learning journey, it was a really good way to learn how Linux itself worked. Now I just use archinstall every time.

I've done it, I've gotten the satisfaction from it, but it's not gonna add any more inches to my e-peen.

Oh, you use pacstrap and arch-chroot, do you? Back in my day all we had was cp and install and we liked it that way! Kids these days wouldn't know how to install SLS without their Yays and Pac-men.

I use arch btw, have been for 5 or so years, I open the gates to those who want to use arch install

You are not any lesser for not wanting to install arch manually

I've been using arch since archinstall came out. I never installed it reading the wiki.

I sleep like a baby and everything works.

I installed Arch exactly once by hand. Since then I just copy the install with dd from one medium to the next.

"We need more people to use linux, look at what MS is doing to people."

People who have never used linux trying to use and learn linux by using an installer built by awesome members of the Arch team.

"C'mon do you even linux?"

I've installed arch several times from scratch. Now if I need to I use archinstall. No shame

What is this magic? You are telling me that a single command would have spared me an entire day of suffering?

Artix:

People here are always talking about different distros, trying this one and then that one until they found what they like. Are you guys really just reinstalling your OS that often? Reinstalling all the programs you want and everything?

Archinstall made my root partition 25 GiBs the first time I ever messed around on arch. That was fun when it filled up.

Wht does it even matter if you don't install Arch manually? Is the whole point of the arch installing? I don't think so, it's using. If you don't find anything joyful in manually installing arch it's perfectly fine to manually install only once to make sure you know how it works. And just use archinstall in every following installation that's not shamefu

Gentoo stage 3 here.

They discouraged earlier stages in the wiki :(

Went with EndeavourOS instead so at least I have more than an ice cubes chance in hell of not borking my install

hardmode: I did a fresh install on a HDD that is on verge of being dead. Every-time this thing boots it's a miracle. Somehow dd blanking the disk, plenty of smartctl offline disk surface scans and finally putting btrfs with data in DUP profile resurrected the HDD. I have run btrfs scrub daily or else the os install may bitrot and well.. expire. :D

Edit: Todays catch, I was too late and now I have fix 3 files:

Error summary:    read=112
  Corrected:      109
  Uncorrectable:  3
  Unverified:     0

Cause following the arch wiki is sooooooo much of an efort

I followed the wiki and pulled off a successful install..... On a vm. Once I felt confident and ready I remembered arch install was a thing and thought "sure I'll try it, it'll definetly break and I'll just use the wiki to install" then it worked without a hitch. I'm still running arch with no issues.

Installing Arch 'the proper way' is a pilgrimage all Linux users should take. After that, they can fly with EndeavourOS at their convenience.