For the past 6 months, I've been using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as my daily driver and I have had a much smoother experience compared to using Windows 11. However, I did have more than a few problems with it as well. The most important one being, that I had ...
siddhantkhisty.hashnode.dev48 min read
Amazing blog! However, I'd like to point out a potential improvement in the 'download Arch' part of this blog. The thing is that a lot of ISP's don't allow torrents at all, so the user may need to be able to download the file directly.
All the direct download links are located right below the check-sum portion of archlinux.org/download but they may not be obvious to a first time visitor.
I think it's important to mention in your blog that the user can also download the ISO directly using the mirrors if they can't use torrents.
This was such a great piece! thank you
Awesome post, sid!
I'd like to comment on a few things:
In the beginning of Install Arch section, there are two problems with executing pacman -Sy
pacstrap already downloads the repo files, so this is not needed.pacman -Syu or pacman -S <package>. When you run pacman -Sy you refresh the package list but don't update, this can break things later on. For more information about why partial updates are not supported, please refer to this archwiki pageThere are also some other places where I've seen the usage of pacman -Sy, like when you're installing discord and other packages.
Also for getting screenshots of the arch install right from the ISO, you can use a hypervisor like qemu, virtualbox or any other virt solution.
A well thought blog, The overall continuation with each step felt like deeply research and simplified for beginners🙂
A thought though : archinstall utility will gradually cutoff the hassal.
Piyush Chauhan
Finally installed my first arch! a very good blog , best part was also explaining what commands do for beginners like me .