I’m planning to install Arch Linux for the first time. Any recommendations on setup, must-have applications, or best practices? Also, what’s something you wish you knew before switching to Arch?

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 hours ago

    archinstall is still unstable as hell. I find that my best bet is to:

    1. Configure everything exactly like I want through the dialog
    2. Save the user and system preferences to their respective JSONs
    3. Mount a USB stick and copy the JSONs there
    4. Restart the archinstall process by loading from the JSONs, then hit commit
    5. When the above fails, restart the whole machine and jump to step 4, where it magically works
    • Pumpkin Escobar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Ah, good to know. I haven’t really used that save configuration and reuse process, I just do the install directly at the end of configuring everything. But I can see the draw for using that, a shame it doesn’t seem to work that well.