Arch Linux's Install Media Adds “Archinstall” for Quick/Easy Installations
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I also find the it kind of ironic that the Arch community want effortless hidpi scaling but aren’t willing to let people into there elitist gated community.
Linux is not a platform for elitism.
That said, I welcome the installer option as well. Once you've been through the manual process a few times, it becomes less about the journey and more about the destination.
There was always a number of wiki articles and tutorials that helped people but it still wasn't new user friendly simple level. Other distributions that had easier interfaces easier installation methods were great for teaching people and keeping the training wheels on or allowing them to cut their teeth on so to speak. The other distros also have communities a built around onboarding new users and answering a new user questions. Once they were able to understand those basics and the few problems that need to be overcome on a daily use basis moving to Arch becomes quite simple after that.
Hopefully this doesn't flood the community with issues or questions that the community doesn't want to deal with.
That said, I think it was a good (hard) experience installing arch the first few times, and I'm a little conflicted.
Is this like the doctors saying "residents should be sleep deprived like I was at their age"... is it good experience or is it clinging to outdated ways?
You can use the Arch install process on other distros with tools like debootstrap (for Debian) or febootstrap (for Fedora). The nice thing about Arch is that they went to great length to document that particular workflow and make it a bit more accessible to casual users.