Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)

Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by teekert on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:50AM (#15247397)

I also love Arch, the only thing off putting is how hard it its to realize full disc encryption. I used Arch Anywhere but it works only with when choosing bios emulation and full disc encryption didn't work, Antergos makes too many choices for me, the base Arch image is to much work to install (where I have Solus or Ubuntu running in 20 min).

I did like it better when they still had their own minimal installer. I don't mind installing X and a DE but setting up encryption and partitioning manually is too much for me.

I love it most that you can really do anything with Arch, the wiki is very very good on any subject. Any suggestions on good Arch installers that just give you a working encrypted system (like Arch Anywhere but working)?

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by whois on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:02AM (#15247501)

I have this wiki page where I documented everything I did to setup my arch system. Disk encryption included: https://github.com/Noah-Huppert/.dotfiles/wiki/System-Instal...

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by teekert on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:31AM (#15247776)

Thanx, I will try and follow your steps. At the moment I'm having a short affair with Solus (Budgie although I prefer their Mate implementation I didn't get acpi working there) which may turn into a full relationship by the looks of things. But if she lets me down Arch is always there for me.

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by 0xfeba on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:07AM (#15248129)

I run luks with dmcrypt on my home server and laptop, with zero issues. Was pretty easy to setup? Home server was a little more intensive as it has dmraid under dmcrypt.

Then again I did 'manual' installs without the GUI I hear they have now.

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