I am one of you now

Mental Outlaw also has the great guide explaining the install step-by-step in a great detail

I think calling it "a page worth" is understating it somewhat, especially if you want a full install to actually use stuff. In reality, when installing at first, you'll be finding stuff you missed for a while, like hardware video decoding.

Also, are you referring to just the direct instructions for one choice? Because to me, the point of installing manually is educating yourself on the choices, choosing one that suits you, and understanding what you're doing to set it up. Of course, when you're doing subsequent installs, you already know that stuff - but at that point you might just want to write an install script instead of running them manually.

I don't remember the channel anymore, but there's one guy constantly updating various setups. Like Arch with encryption, Arch with BTRFS, etc. I started with one of those videos and wrote my own step by step guide. Now I'm just following my own guide whenever I install Arch.

Can confirm. Install once and it lives forever until the hardware dies or is replaced.

I only remember how long it takes

I even ported an install once from one device to another just by copying the data and installing the bootloader.

All I remember is that I still haven’t memorised the add user command

is installing debian an acceptable solution(s)? :D

No!! Julia!! That's Bobby Hill??

I came looking for your comment. Julia birthed a meme

And everytime we kiss

SORRY

Been there. Done that.

I used it for a while too before I learned about archinstall. eOS has a great community though. I use their forum to look for answers often

Yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrzMCGZBssM

I use EndeavourOS and it works without issues.

I just don't bother going for archinstall when regular installation "from scratch" takes 5 minutes (or 15, if you do it the first time). It is not scary and extremely simple, contrary to memes. Besides, it makes you understand the processes involved.

Archinstall is just a little, nice helper to shorten and simplify installation even more.

You mean "couldn't care less". The way you've written it means that you do care a bit since you "could care less".

It’s not about bragging rights, all you do is follow instructions. I just do it that way because I can set everything up exactly how I like it

My current issue is that I can't remote into the machine at all beyond ssh. Any attempt at a session just refuses to work no matter what guide, fix, video, forum post, etc I follow.

I've found that's usually true with many tech things. Everyone has a great time and I'm just cursed.

Very solid. Loved using it. Tbh, I have very little bad things to say about most of the distros I like all of them so far.

NixOS is the new Arch..

Yeah nah, arch has an actual use case for normal users - it's just the same old Linux with the most recent packages.

Nix and guix simply don't work as distros for regular people. They're made for scientific and corporate applications. They add a huge amount of complexity in order to solve problems you don't have.

Nixos is like rust: hyped into the stratosphere by people who don't use it

I say this as an ex Arch type who moved to Fedora, now ublue-kinoite, waiting for Nix to mature enough to daily

I'm running guix in fedora as a PM. You get most of the benefits, and can still use other PM's like npm without crying for a week first. Although imo guix works better in that scenario since you can just "guix install X" and then use X like any other binary.

Not quite

Ngl that's where I've learned about archinstall

I don't think anyone underestimates Linux Mint. It's pretty widely considered one of the best distros out there.

Those of us who choose Arch do so for the software selection, and because we like tweaking the os :)

Linux mint is so good. I used it for a long while. It is a nearly perfect OS