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how easy is it to install arch? (no anarchy/archinstall)

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[–] sandalbucket@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There is no such thing as easy or hard.

Give it a try, fuck it up, and give it a try again. Try not to fuck it up in the same way as the first time. Repeat until it works - it will work eventually.

It took me about 6 hours and 3 disk re-formats my first time. I was particularly bad at it. I barely knew what a disk was, nevermind a partition.

Actually I’m still not sure what a partition is.

You’ll do fine :)

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

Yep, completely agree. We only (really) learn when we make mistakes.

I usually aim to do my "first" (of whatever) as best I can, but totally prepared to wipe & restart...