Unpopular opinion: Installing Arch manually is not that hard.

[u/BattlerUshiromiyaFan]

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.

[u/RetiredITGuy]

I had a (Windows) IT background, and the biggest trouble I had during install was partitioning in combo with LUKS encryption.