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
ddblanking the disk, plenty ofsmartctloffline 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. :DEdit: Todays catch, I was too late and now I have fix 3 files:
Error summary: read=112 Corrected: 109 Uncorrectable: 3 Unverified: 0And now you’re lost
Archinstall made my root partition 25 GiBs the first time I ever messed around on arch. That was fun when it filled up.
yep, me too. At least I had 50GB but man, I was frustrated when I found out…
Why have set partitions. Just use LVM or BTRFS volumes…
Learning to properly configure pre existing drives with archinstall was an adventure on its own.
Its honestly just better to set it up yourself if you want to learn lol but archinstall is cool as an option.
Not sure about this meme. It seems dated. Since they added a walk through installed it’s just as easy as Debian.
No. Debian is much easier. Archinstall is still super easy to piss off.
Sure, but Debian with the CLI installer. The normal installer is pretty straight forward but not as easy as calamaris or anaconda. I bet people who can install Debian are skilled enough for archinstall
I’ve been using arch since archinstall came out. I never installed it reading the wiki.
I sleep like a baby and everything works.
Cause following the arch wiki is sooooooo much of an efort
Actually, yes. In many, many aspects Arch wiki requires a lot of prerequisite knowledge. Otherwise, you’ll be better off following online guides.
I found the effort was in researching and choosing which components to use, rather than actually installing once chosen. It’s easy if you know exactly what you’re gonna install, but on that first build it definitely takes effort if you want to read into all the options and make educated choices
What is this magic? You are telling me that a single command would have spared me an entire day of suffering?
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.
The one time I tried to manually install arch on a VM years and years ago it didn’t work and I wrote Arch off. Guess what I’m running now? Well, Cachy, but lol. It’s Arch. And guess what? It’s got a simplified install process.
Very easy nowadays, even manually with all the guides, so you can cross that one off quite easily.
Arch Wiki is great, but it’s mostly oriented on people who already know something. And installation page should be very clearly written for absolute noobs.
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.
thats fine and thats the exact usecase for arch install. This meme is for people who never install it once manually and use archinstall to get a working configured system.
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I gave up and used endeavouros instead.
Installed manually first then later using archinstall. I came across an issue that wouldn’t format a partition. Saw the issue on github too. So had to format manually and continue.
Gentoo stage 3 here.
They discouraged earlier stages in the wiki :(
I’m sorry, sir, but the tests indicate you have Stage 3 Gentoo.
Oof. What’s the prognosis?
I wish I could hug you.
Bravo.
and from what we’ve gathered about your case, it’s terminal
Don’t mean to bash your distro choice OP, but they say the best jokes contain a kernel of truth.
Install Gentoo.
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?
it’s called “distrohopping”, and yes. nowadays it’s easier to do it in a vm, but less fun
I’m not. Mint is all I need, Mint is all I want.
These comments really make me wonder if people would just get therapy instead of installing Arch if therapy was cheaper.
Why not? It takes a few hours at most, and I get a new interesting experience.
It is amazing if you’ve settled on your distribution of choice, though.
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Yes. About once every 2-3 months. It’s something of a hobby.
I did for a few years, finally think I’m settled on arch for desktop, but for servers, hurry is still out
When I started out, I used to change distros like socks lol While you do have to reinstall programs, having a separate /home partition means that you can keep your stuff between changes
I got pretty close for my first time, got some random error post wiping drive and formatting and mounting it. Not sure exactly what I did wrong post completion and logging in. Then I think I locked myself out of disc encryption and was disheartened and used Archinstall…
I’ve installed arch several times from scratch. Now if I need to I use archinstall. No shame
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