installing arch is fun. and I mean specifically the kind of fun I had back in 2002 when I had a slackware ISO and nothing better to do with my time
I think the arch install guide may have been written by that guy who wrote the bomb defusal manual used on M*A*S*H.
"remove the tail assembly, and carefully cut the wires leading to the clockwork fuse at the head"
*next page*
"but first, remove the fuse"
installing old-style linux (LFS, slackware, arch) is like defusing a bomb.
it's very tense, the instructions are incomplete, and you know that if you fail... at least it's not your problem anymore
@foone That's interesting, my impressions from installing Arch were always like "1. Follow the steps from guide 2. You're done". Kinda boring, in fact. Even my experiences with installing Debian via debootstrap were more eventful, as there were no such noob-friendly guides out there and it was easier to miss some silly stuff - that's how I learned that things break in funny ways if you have no loopback interface set up, for example ;)
Out of curiosity, what do you find missing in the guide?
@dos @foone
My personal issues with the guide are that it doesn't mention archinstall, and kinda falls apart when you get to the point of needing to put a bootloader on and X11/Wayland and some sort of desktop on it.
If you're installing arch for the first time, "Choose and install a Linux-capable boot loader. If you have an Intel or AMD CPU, enable microcode updates in addition. " is not particularly helpful...
It's kinda like someone just forgot to finish the guide, really...