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I don’t really understand the question. All you have to do is run archinstall and then add a desktop environment like KDE and that’s like 80% what other distros do.

I think arch used to be hard to get started but not anymore. That’s reserved for gentoo now

on AWS is having a bad day · c/selfhosted · -8 pts · 290d

Sorry but this is a ridiculous argument. What entity has dropped nukes on an entire population? Who is the current president of the US? Insane take.

on My experience with Arch · c/linux · 16 pts · 290d

There’s also archinstall which comes with the latest os image which is just like any other installer and holds your hand through the process.

It’s really very simple to get arch installed

I have a simple bash script that manages folders and files with a way to route them to whatever location. Then I run the script and it does all the symlinking for me. This is what I do for systemd unit files and my own dotfiles

It seems like there might be exceptions to the “no partial upgrades” which has not been discussed: you can pin your version of the kernel primarily to give time for packages like zfs to catch up to the latest kernel

Here’s my journey from arch to proxmox back to arch: https://bower.sh/homelab

I was in your shoes and decided to simplify my system. It’s really hard to beat arch and I missed having full control over the system. Proxmox is awesome but it felt overkill for my use cases. If I want to experiment with new distros I would probably just run distrobox or qemu directly. Proxmox does a lot but it ended up just being a gui on top of qemu with some built in backup systems. But if you end up using zfs anyway … what’s the benefit?