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Re:Valve Steam Deck by j-james on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:02AM (#27853417)
> Hopefully this eventually results in more user friendly Arch Linux installers.

Funny you say that! Arch images now ship with an official installer as of a couple of months ago - which is comparable to the Ubuntu or Fedora installers in ease-of-use.

https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall

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Re:Valve Steam Deck by l0b0 on Saturday July 17, 2021 @05:44PM (#27869096)
Cool, I had no idea! Does it have my required minimal set of features?

- Able to connect to WiFi from within the installer.

- Full-disk encryption setup, ideally with a single checkbox like Ubuntu.

- Interactive partitioning.

- Auto-detects or allows choosing between BIOS/UEFI.

- Supports creating a NetworkManager-based network setup, so that I don't have to switch network managers after installation.

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Re:Valve Steam Deck by j-james on Sunday July 18, 2021 @08:51PM (#27878129)
No to connecting to WiFi from the installer: this is currently done with iwd before installation. Yes to everything else.
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Re:Valve Steam Deck by Accacin on Friday July 16, 2021 @10:00AM (#27856280)
I'm a big fan of Arch, but that installer is pretty dodgy. I wouldn't use it (at least in the state it was in a few months back) personally.

However I do welcome an installer, it's fun to install Arch a couple of times, but after that I'm not really learning anything new.

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