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Manjaro Linux provides a nice, easy installer for Arch. With different editions based on your preferred DE.

https://manjaro.org/download/

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> Manjaro Linux provides a nice, easy installer for Arch. With different editions based on your preferred DE.

It's more than an installer. Manjaro and Arch don't even share repositories.

I just used the new arch installer script, even though I've gotten my install time down to under an hour over time. It took maybe 10 minutes. I don't have very complicated or unique needs, but it "just worked" on my 4 year old Thinkpad.

I just installed arch two days ago on my wife’s 2013 MacBook Air. I heard of a script. Googled around. Looked in the wiki. Didn’t find squat! That being said arch on a 2013 MacBook Air is 10 minutes of cli and it runs like a champ!

It's very new - `archinstall` is what you're looking for.

https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall

Thanks! I don’t mind doing it by hand. It’s just partitioning. Pacstrap and setup systemd boot or grub.

When I built a new PC a couple months ago, my first OS on it was Manjaro - coming only from an Ubuntu/debian background. Linux has its limits but the experience is pretty seamless.

No, EndeavourOS is a nice, easy installer for Arch. You use Calamares and either select packages, or groups of packages in GUI, or/and provide a list of packages in a text file for Calamares to pick up during the install. You can even ignore Calamares altogether and just use Live OS to install Arch kind of the usual way, but from a comfort of a graphical environment; i.e., multiple pseudo TTYs, no need to configure WiFi, with a full-fledged GUI browser (Firefox), etc.

Manjaro Live OS can't be used to install vanilla Arch. Manjaro uses its own package repositories that differ significantly from the Arch repos, in terms of versions (which are held back for at least a couple of weeks) and in terms of which packages are available (quite a few AUR packages are present in the Manjaro's repositories).

For pure arch, there are some helpers, like Arcolinux and anarchy Linux.

Only recommend using them for subsequent installations. You have to get the basics right first, so you can troubleshoot anything in the arch forums

I used to use Anarchy (or.. I think they had to change name?) but Arch itself has an installer new (as of last month or so), so I'll just use that next time.

I am testing it. Died on me when applying the desktop config, but I haven't been able to toy with it for long.

It is very, very promising. It spits a JSON that can be used for reproducible installs. It is also very flexible in which you can use the API with custom python install scripts. Very impressive and ergonomic.

don't forget endeavor

Manjaro fired their treasurer for calling out misuse of funds. They tried to bundle paid freeoffice instead of libreoffice. They screwed up their SSL certs (twice). I'd avoid them.

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