As someone who implemented webauthn for my $work it was a terrible DX to setup. Webauthn requires an https domain so that alone is going to be a barrier for many self hosted services. Getting the configuration right will also be prohibitive.

There’s no money in improving the browser

Quadlet

I use https://tuns.sh/ which doesn’t require any local installs to work since it’s just ssh. Its not as fast as vpn but its easy to use

I don’t really understand the question. All you have to do is run archinstall and then add a desktop environment like KDE and that’s like 80% what other distros do.

I think arch used to be hard to get started but not anymore. That’s reserved for gentoo now

It’s really simple: the apps preloaded are the apps DHH uses. It’s his distro people have been duped into using.

Because if you are into minimalism there’s no eye candy. I use river as well and decided to ditch the status bar. There’s literally nothing to see on my screen except for my terminal. It might have neovim but again, i went super stock on my neovim config: https://erock-git-dotfiles.pgs.sh/tree/main/item/dot_config/nvim/init.lua.html

There’s really nothing to see

There’s also archinstall which comes with the latest os image which is just like any other installer and holds your hand through the process.

It’s really very simple to get arch installed

My salt is just a memorized password I put in addition to the one stored in pass

This is what I do. If someone can figure out pass with my password protected gpg, plus my passwords are partials (I salt them), and otp then they can have my access

I have a simple bash script that manages folders and files with a way to route them to whatever location. Then I run the script and it does all the symlinking for me. This is what I do for systemd unit files and my own dotfiles