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Do yourself a favour and install it on a virtual machine first. Screwing up an install on Arch is frighteningly easy. The Arch Wiki is your friend, use it. Also, read the installation instructions before you begin the installation, not during. If this sounds like too much of a headache (understandably so), then give EndeavourOS a whirl.
It's all automated now, it's pretty hard to mess up a standard install. It's not like the good old days.
funny you say that since I just did it (in virtualbox thankfully) and gave up until I heard about endavourOS a few minutes ago
You boot into your installation media and type archinstall then pick the options you want. You can do it the manual way but Arch install works great.
Alright I'll try again and let you know, what DE do you recommend? I use cinnamon right now
That's what I thought, but then when arch install fcks up it seems even harder to fix. I ised it because I have been getting new computers so it was easier to run run it. It messed up the SSD in a way, and trying to run it again wouldn't work because it can't find the SSD that it did something to. It took a while to manually fix all that.
Also idk why arch install doesn't have easy way to partition home and root, the default suggestions's root is too small, changing it requires manually making each partition, just take an integer(%) allocated for home and calculate from there.
Are you talking about archinstall or have they actually automated the default installation method?