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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 2 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I appreciate many things about this. Thank you.

Still consider myself a linux noob. Have grown tired of Ubuntu's bloat and proprietary snap stuff. Have really enjoyed NixOS. But also heard about the wokification of NixOS and know there will be impacts at some point. Arch sounds like the next hobby project. Going to bookmark this note of yours and play around sometime soon. 🤙
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BitTiger | 2 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 If you want the arch experience on easy mode and the installation makes it seem intimidating.  Don't worry. They included an automated installation script that not many people know about.

When you have the installation media ready and you boot into it for the first time. Type in archinstall - this will start the script. It is all in the CLI, but it is guided now. You can use the presets for btrfs and lvm. Get it luks encrypted. Even choose from like 10+ desktop environments and window managers too. Completely unbloated and vanilla from the developers with super minimal apps.

The installer is lightning fast. You can add all your packages to install before the installation. Plus the archinstall script allows you to save your configuration settings right into the installation. So you can use them to speed up the already fast installation process the next time for deployment on other computers. 

Just make sure it is connected to the internet first. If you need WiFi, ask me, I don't remember the code for it off the top of my head lol. 

Thanks for the follow. Always happy to help new Linux users. Been one for about 15 years now. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any more in the future.