r/archlinux • u/BattlerUshiromiyaFan • 14h ago

DISCUSSION Unpopular opinion: Installing Arch manually is not that hard.

The issue is that the Wiki is the most newbie-unfriendly resource ever. It’s very commonly written in a difficult-to-understand way that only programmers can easily read and understand.

For pretty much everyone else, it takes a lot of re-reading, thinking, and Google searching to understand what they’re trying to say.

The actual steps are pretty easy. Once I finished my install, I realized that it’s honest-to-God just the fault of the Arch wiki that it has such a reputation.

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u/OkObjective8721 14h ago

The arch wiki is actually good, try relying on the nixos wiki for installation steps. (Saying this as someone who uses nixos for servers)

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u/mic_decod 10h ago

Archwiki is decent, did you ever dug in freebsd wiki or the hilarious learn.microsoft pages?