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Debian is a snail and its shell (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Arch is unironically easy.

You only need to know two commands:

archinstall

and

sudo pacman -Syu

PS: If my 60 year old mom can do it, anyone can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Archinstall works until it doesn't. Recently I tried Luks and BTRFS more than 6 times leading to a script error each and every time. Could I have done something simpler and archinstall work? Possibly. But it offers those things out of the box and for it to fail each and every time ultimately led me back to the wiki to do it manually.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I tried Luks and BTRFS more than 6 times leading to a script error each and every time.

This was actually my experience also, so I went back to a manual install to just get it done. I think the archinstall script won't get any configuration of device-mapper/LVM right (including disk encryption with cryptsetup). The disk encrypt setup had even more hoops to go through than just LVM.

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