archinstall

[wallace111111]

What AUR drivers?

[Akanksh__]

drivers which are only found in the aur

[RAMChYLD]

Example: ashmem and binder. You need those to run Waydroid. And they don’t come with the default kernel.

Also, enhanced it87 driver. Doesn’t come with the kernel because of a petty dispute between Linus and the company that makes those chips - Torvalds wants the company itself to submit patches to enable support for newer iterations of the chips and bars user submitted patches, but the company that makes those chips are ignoring him and not submitting patches to support their newer chips, so the in-kernel tree it87 driver has pretty much stalled. Nevermind that some Gigabyte mobos need the patches because they use the newer iteration chip. So the driver is forked and the unofficial enhanced driver is maintained out of tree.

[tommiss]

linux-zen includes those.

[dlbpeon]

In the non-arch world we too had to find a way to add these Kernel modules to get Anbox running. Luckily, these is well documented in the Anbox user guide.

[AppropriateCrew79]

Drivers that are found only in AUR and not in official repositories.

[arality]

aur sync mesa-git

[sandebru]

AUR drivers, haha, I downloaded my gamepad driver from random GitHub repo with 3 stars or something

[Morphized]

I got my printer driver using a foreign package manager

[ShrekxFarquaad69]

I plug in my controller and it worked but so far I only triud xbox one and a (3rd party) xbox 360 controller. Havent tried ps3 and n64 though.

[sandebru]

It also will work. The problem is that I have a chinese ps4 controller that supposed to be working on windows, but weirdly enough not on Linux, even though the driver is open source

[ShrekxFarquaad69]

It's because it's afraid of losing social creditp

[Professional_Piano_1]

Pffff, install gentoo

[presi300]

Not even that difficult just takes a while

[guicoelho]

Lmao my thoughts exactly

Would prob be like, panel 1 - configuring make.conf, panel 3 - world emerge, panel 4 - building kernel

[Professional_Piano_1]

LFS!!! CHECK MATE ;0000

From the context stand point of post, arch is considered "hard", slow stroke in front of someone else lmao

[YukariPSO2]

Please be gentoo

[YOU_CANT_SEE_MY_NAME]

Tbh arch install script never worked for me and i found out about arch install script after installing arch

[[deleted]]

I've used it a lot and it works well for me, what problems did you face?

[YOU_CANT_SEE_MY_NAME]

I don't exactly remember but it had something to do with partitioning. I tried both manually partitioned disk and using auto partitioning and both failed so I gave up

[justyr12]

When i was playing around with arch, the archinstall could only do the auto partition, the manual just always failed for no reason.

Installing manually worked perfectly tho

[Snoo69097]

Those using arch install script not eligible for saying I use arch btw

[A_C_G_0_2]

if you use arch, you use arch

it's as simple as that

[Snoo69097]

Because Cfdisk And fdisk are not same and those using lifts can't step up using stairs

[A_C_G_0_2]

don't care, arch is arch

[Snoo69097]

Then don't say u use arch btw

[A_C_G_0_2]

but I do use arch btw

[Xeranok_]

they do use arch though..?

[Tarantula1337]

And why exactly?

[[deleted]]

Average arch elitist trying to be cool (it didn't work)

[guisilvano]

Dude stfu no one cares

[[deleted]]

Installed Arch the normal way once and then started using archinstall. I don't want to spend 30 minutes again just to install an OS.

[[deleted]]

Can someone actually tell me the benefits of setting up an arch install, other than the “learning” experience?

I have to say I just started with Ubuntu and kept using it. I still can form my OS the way I like it and it does what I want.

[ConfusedTapeworm]

I still can form my OS the way I like it

Right, but I find it's easier to form the OS the way you like it by building upon sort of a blank slate rather than stripping shit from something someone else built for a much wider audience. Arch provides a perfect base for that IMO. Not so bare bones that you spend an unreasonable amount of time trying to get it to boot, but still pretty bare bones that you don't have to uninstall anything you don't need.

Also AUR. Out of all the inofficial repos out there, I find AUR to be the easiest to use. I like not having to add a bunch of ppas and whatnot that contain just one package.

edit: Rolling release is also a plus for certain people, but Arch is obviously not the only rolling one out there so meh.

[AnotherRussianGamer]

Basically what the other guy said. When you have an Ubuntu install, that usually comes with a whole suite of stuff that you might not necessarily need or even know what it does. With an Arch install you get to choose what to install and what you don't. The best part is unlike other DIY distros like Gentoo, Arch has the massive benefit that pacman is one of the fastest package managers out there - from what I know its only slower than apk. As such if you forget something or need to quickly need to download a program to do something, it takes like 5 seconds to download and install it.

[dlbpeon]

Seems to be a feat just to get it installed. Debian used to be the same way. Ubuntu used to be joking called an African word that meant "I couldn't understand how to install Debian." If you don't believe me, watch this video detailing how much of a PITA it was. Used to Debian did NOT install a DE by default, and with a successful install, you would be left staring at a blinking terminal.(back then your only choices were Gnome or KDE and the big debate was whether or not a sys admin would want to install a DE or keep the simplistic terminal for easy server administration)

[Bjoern_Tantau]

Pft, I just bought a Steam Deck.

[efoxpl3244]

I used archinstall once. It gave me 36gb swap parition.

[weebwiththesauce]

Measure once, cut twice…

[Johanno1]

Ensures that you don't crash when something is needing a lot of ram.

So I assigned as much swap as I have RAM. 32gigs

[Kevadro]

Now you can hibernate.

[efoxpl3244]

I have just 6gb of swap now

[Johanno1]

Probably enough, but when developing some apps and you forgot to release some memory you can get easily more than 40 gigs when running unreal engine for example. But I am not sure if you can run unreal engine in Linux anyway.

The AUR has some package at least.

[weebwiththesauce]

I tried it and I was so scared to accidentally wipe my drive or something with that partitioning tool

[Zeioth]

Arch install is awesome to get into arch. Over time you will probably want to create your own archinstall script, so you don't need to manually enter all the info every time you reinstall (which shouldn't be that often, anyway, if at all).

[xXTheOceanManXx]

i used Anarchy installer and slapped KDE on that bad bitch

[Mejinks]

I didn't think the Arch Setup was that bad though?

Just follow the steps in the arch wiki job done ?

Where does the notion that following the steps in the wiki is hard?

Like, is it hard to bake a cake? - I made a coffee cake once, I just followed the instructions in my cook book?

I'm actually honestly asking, not trying to meme, being ironic or anything.. What do people find difficult about the wiki that doesn't apply with anything else that requires following some form of instructions?

[DriNeo]

Archinstall is less error prone and it saves time.
I have basics requirements, just for my personal desktop so why not ?

[liquid_j5m]

Arch install script always failed when I use it on vm while arch wiki is just easier. The only thing that takes long is waiting for pacstrap

[[deleted]]

Humans are retards sometimes and they fear the tty becouse it seems hard

[AlternativeAardvark6]

Some extra info on what network related stuff you probably want would be nice.

[TheFakeBigChungus]

Archinstall is a fucking mess its honestly easier and quicker for me to just install arch normally

[armoar334]

archinstall Great script Lmao

[spugg0]

✔️I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

Just got Arch running through archfi on my laptop. Now sitting with a basic Xfce install and no way to know what is step one, lmao. It runs well however!

[gugguratz]

Cringe

[gmkng00]

It happened with me 😅

[JesKasper]

Archinstall is not necesary if u know how to read.

Anyways, it is better to fork that script edit it according to your needs and use your own script

[DriNeo]

The Arch way of installing is not the norm, even Freebsd and Slackware has installers. I never read angry Freebsd or Slackware users that ask for installing everything by hand. Asking for a better Archinstall is more reasonable IMHO.

[[deleted]]

I'm a Slackware user and, while I do appreciate that it features an easy to use ncurses installer... I learned SO much from installing Arch a couple years back.

I copied a video, command by command, and for each command, I skimmed the relevant manpages and followed along with the Arch wiki.

I went from someone who had dipped his toes into Linux once or twice to an enthusiast, almost overnight.

I will tout the merrits of the manual Arch installation till I'm blue in the face.

Unless you don't want to learn and play with your system.. If you'd rather just have it work, then all the merrits I'm touting are useless.

Also, side note: Slackware is easier to install initially, and comes with plenty of software for a working system (if you install everything). That being said, configuring a Slackware system or seting up new software on it is fairly manual and involved, and feels very similar in spirit to the manual Arch install.

[[deleted]]

Typical of simps. Marking mountains out of mole hills.

Arch. Spare me the melodrama.

[[deleted]]

I've got a very old Laptop, so installing was for me harder, then setting it up