Main developer and creator of this installer here, stumbled across your video just now and wanted to say that 11:32 - made me happy to hear and the excitement at 6:07 also cheered me up. Glad you loved the overall experience, if you haven't tried it yet the user experience *should* feel and look a lot better these days because we dropped an improved version of the TUI just after your video was made :) The current stable version has a few smaller bugs however and I'm about to release the next version in a few days. But the user interface is there to try if you wanna give it a go :) Anyways, keep up the good work!

Veronica's Archpad, btw

Arch always makes you learn stuff. Even during its installation. It taught me to read logs, to 'man' every command in terminal, taught me udev, taught me to explore sysfs stuff, taught me to only keep packages that I really need. It was hard in the beginning but you do come to understand your machine far better after all.

Greetings from Kazakhstan, very nice video Veronica. My good friend Al Sneed just sent me your video. He is a Arch fan and has tried to convince me for years to install it. Now with your video I can see how easy it is to install it, even a city slicker like me can install it. Thank you for you video.

I was brave enough once, to try the install the arch way. Realized I had not picked and installed what's needed for a minimal DE, and bailed. Ran Manjaro for a couple years and now I'm a fan of Arco-Linux. The installer has come a long way, thank you for sharing!

Any day with a new Veronica Explains video is a good day. I'm a huge fan of archinstall; I think it encourages more people to try Arch, and that probably leads to an overall better user experience. I'd love a video on btrfs if that's possible!

I really love your videos, you put a personal spin on things that make your videos a lot of fun to watch. Keep up the great work Veronica!

I'm a long time Arch user and I have the manual install procedure nearly memorised and I STILL do the separate screen following the wiki just in case lol. I'm VERY excited to try this script on my next install! Thanks for making these great videos, Veronica!

That was a fun video with very sound opinions, great stuff vkc!!

Your videos are always so informative and fun to watch at the same time. Thanks! I've been running Arch and Arch based distros for years now. It's hard to ignore the freshness. LOL

Arco is an Arch based Distro that has fantastic support. Their installer can be easy or in depth depending on what you want but the best part of Arco is how many images they have.

Wow, that's a really comprehensive installer. I don't remember there being so many interactive options last time I installed Arch, but then again, that was back in '15. For all the focus installers get, it's not like you'll ever need to use it again on the same computer. Great walk-through 👍

I enjoy your videos so much! I'm a long time Linux user, but I manage to learn several things with each video! I'd be interested to see a little about your music recording process on Linux, though I know it's not strictly in the wheelhouse of your channel. I enjoy catching glimpses of the guitars and pedals lying around your recording space :)

Love your videos Veronica!. Greetings from Honduras. Keep up the good work.

You are such a delight. Thank you for existing and doing this show.

I've installed Arch using the archinstall script back in May 2021 and from what I could tell it looks like a bit has changed since then. I've also tried installing Arch manually and I always seemed to run into trouble, i ended up using the archinstall and it made things a heck of a lot more easier. I also have a thinkpad but it currently has ubuntu on it, i might just update my boot drive with the latest arch and do a fresh install again! Thanks for the awesome video!

After hearing about Arch and its dreaded install, I was delighted to see that you did a video on it. Keep up the good work!

Greetings from Honduras, Central America..!!! I find all your videos so much fun..!!! Peace!!!!

Love this video. Great overview of the Arch installer!

This was interesting to watch because the archinstall script has come a looonnng way since the version used in this video. It's much more user friendly and I've used it many times at this point when messing around with Arch Linux. You just earned a sub! Great job!

Hi Veronica, Your channel was one of the first youtube suggestions that was worth it. You got a new sub. Amazing content.

I just install Manjaro. I have installed it on about 10 different laptops and it just works. Actually much easier than the arch install script. It will also preserve an existing windows install, shrinking it as needed. All the goodness of Arch with the slick Calamaries installer. Cheers!

I am a long time user of many Linux distros. Just found you this morning 7-20-2022 9am. Would've loved to have found you a long time ago because you're fun to watch, go into more details than other cookie cutter KZfaqrs that copy each other with a fast show and tell, but no teaching new users everything that's needed to know to have a great time with any Linux desktop. Great Job. Going to be watching your older videos to see how your progress as a KZfaqr, and maybe something I don't already know. Like this new installer.

I just tried your tutorial and installed the latest Arch within a virtual machine - and it worked. But i like Debian based distros much more😬 Greetings from Germany (where it's cold an rainy) and happy Thanksgiving😊

Thank you for sharing this - very helpful! 👍

Great video, Veronica! (As always.) I've been a Linux user for 23 years but hadn't tried Arch yet (one of the few I haven't) until recently I decided to install it on a Lenovo Thinkcentre Tiny. So I'm looking forward to any further videos you may do on the distro. And for my hostname vote I'll put in the hat "vcurve" (the "v" for Veronica and an "arch" is a curve haha).

Great simple explanation, thanks!

This was fun! I'm glad I found your channel. A friend and I will be setting up a computer with Arch the manual way, while drinking a few beers. We're both Linux nerds, so it should be fun. Also, I saw you're a Pop user and I'm wondering what you think of Linux Mint? I switched to Mint recently and quite love it.

I liked that ThinkPad. You can replace the WiFi module, the HDD/SDD, and the memory sticks. Congratulations for the price and the choice! As a device name, you could call this new laptop Amelia, in honor of Amelia Earhart (famous American pilot). As you will be using this device as a test pilot for distros and other works, I think it's a fair name.

Cool stuff, thanks Veronica 👍🏽

Quality content. You have an excellent on camera presence.

That was a wonderful video! I want to try Arch after coming from the world of Debian for almost a decade. I remembered that you made a video about it so I sought it out. I’m going to try it out. This looks more approachable than installing from scratch. I don’t need a fancy graphical installer.

I had that same IBM Aptiva as a kid. Definitely my favorite computer of all time.

Excellent video. Thank you!

Picked Arch as my first Linux distro last year because of its barebone-ness, couldn't be happier. I did install it the vanilla way while looking up guides and docs, and while infinitely more labor-intensive, I wouldn't say it's harder. It's been a great experience and I find it hard to justify trying out another distro lol

Thank you for the Info. On the new Installer. Last time I installed Arch 2015 march I believe, it took 3 days and a second screen using my phone. UGH. What a nightmare the phone was. Lol. And that was the plain bare Arch. Just the bare min. with Firefox. Then it was another week almost to get it setup and working properly. But was the most satisfying install I have ever done. I feel I learned something, And I installed packages that my computer needed and nothing else. Most distros pull in tons of things for most computers out there, along with stuff I do not want. Time for a new installation on a new drive. Now see what your video DID!!! Lol. Thanks for your time and hard work on these Vid's.

Best arch install tutorial! thank you!

I thought the main attraction of Arch was the learning process of doing the traditional install. When/if I test it on one of my machines I'll do the fun, slow, step-by-step with the wiki open on the side, like you mentioned. As for naming the machine: Veronica + Arch(ie) leads back to both the old internet programs (using your-neck-of-the-woods gopher protocols) and the even older comic books, so maybe something like Jughead or Betty or Reggie?

Please make more videos! I love the channel.

Gretings from Germany! I used to install Arch the manual way since 2013 and than i found archfi, which is also a script and works pretty decent. After you install the basics with archfi you use archdi, another script, to install the Desktop packages.

Muy bueno...como siempre. ¡Gracias!

I haven't tried the arch install script, looks good though. I always choose grub and ext4 too, just because I always choose those :). Definitely agree with your advice on trying the manual way to learn how everything works. That was one of the best linux educational experiences ever, the first time I did it. That being said, unless you need a very specific and fine tuned install, a script saves so much time and so many brain cells.

Good video showing Arch isn't such a pain. I'm on Pop! OS currently from some of your previous videos. My suggested name for the laptop: Archwizard Gnomeo. Side story: "Gnomeo and Juliet" is an animated clip I stumbled upon and yet seems fitting for the division of Arch linux users and non-users (my past perception is it's for the knowledgeable linux users vs other distros that are more new-to-linux friendly). Gnomeo is a blue gnome (check the arch logo color) and Juliet is a red gnome. The archinstall script you show is the union of the two groups... It's your laptop, do as you please, but I think it's a good gname.

I have been using linux for about 20 years. I swap distros by using a desktop with a hot swap disk bay, I can power off and put in a new hard drive in a minute. 120gb SSDs are very cheap, so I have a stack of them. My Arch distro is Manjaro, I like XFCE and Manjaro was the easy way to get an Arch distro up and running. I tend to always go with what I know and use ext4, so would be interested to learn more about btrfs. Thanks for the informative and entertaining content.

Wow, that Aptiva pic takes me back. That was my third computer (first was an Apple IIc, and second was a Packard Bell running Windows 3.1).

Thinkpad is always a good choice for longevity. I have a T440p as my daily driver that’s going on what, eight or nine years old and still chugging right along.

Think pads are a good choice for used machines and work well with all kinds of software. My old think pad is an X20 that I use for retro programs, it has a dos partition with DOS 5.0 and Win 3.1 I then put XP on it for newer stuff. This works excellent because I have a dock that goes with it so I can use a full size monitor and keyboard.

I name most of my network devices after Adventure Time characters! I try to pick one that is at least a little similar to the hardware too. Like, my Arch server is named treetrunks because it's a pretty old, and I have two raspberry pi's that are named Fionna and Jake. For your thinkpad I think i would choose Gunter or Guntalina, one of the penguins from the show :D I use arch on everything I can, I really enjoy being able to go from one system to another and being comfortable with one main set of tools for it. Although I'm used to installing it the old fashioned way, I am really excited about this script. One of the things I hear from my friends when we talk about arch is that they don't want to to go through the install process, and they already use linux. The long way is just too much of an inconvenience for a lot of people, and while it it's the best for some things, like learning or customization, those aren't the only fantastic aspects of arch these days

I love your t-shirt!

Like the video and can appreciate the nuances of all the installers. I'm a Gentoo user, and I live and die by it, but I always like arch and try to install it in a vm once a month to keep my chops fresh. I have used the script and I can appreciate it, it has made my approach to gentoo a lil less canonical, and I start to appreciate the use of scripts, in fact it takes the knowledge in order to make a script. Although I have never used vanilla Arch as a main daily driver, I have installed it countless times, and the installation of arch is much simpler than gentoo. I have a step by step install order for both arch and gentoo if anyone is interested, both in rc-service and systemd for gentoo. I just have to say how much I like gentoo, because when I set it up correctly I can have a full kde desktop go from shutdown to new logged in desktop in under 20 seconds, I don't think there is any other distro that can do that.

I went with Manjaro and XFCE - maybe archinstall next time. Thank you very much for the great demo.

CAT-5 wiring diagram spotted. Love the shirt.

I don't know why the algorithm has never showed me your videos before.... I watch Linux content every day... I am glad the algorithm gods blessed me with this video today. SUBBED!!!!

I am adamant that everyone absolutely, definitely should install Arch using exactly whatever means they fancy. I loved building my system from the bottom up the manual way. If I had to reinstall in a hurry, though, I might give the installer a go. I do get things that break fairly regularly though. I might try Manjaro one day, to see if it hits the sweet spot.

As someone who hasn't botched the Arch install process, and thus not many reruns, I still enjoy the wiki way. Plus, I enjoy the granularity of it. Being a very particular person, I like deciding/knowing as much about what's running on my personal systems as possible. Also, running as little as possible. The addition of archinstall is nice, for sure. Also, call it "furnace" or "forge". 😉

I name my ThinkPads after female comic book characters. Emma Frost is a "pimped out" T440p with core i7 Haswell (4 cores, 8 threads), 16 GB ram, 1 M.2 SSD, another SATA SSD and an HDD caddy in place of the optical drive and a 1080p IPS display. I use "her" in my work every day with Archlabs Linux and a windows 10 install in KVM. Couldn't be happier, the performance is great for her tasks.

This was a great addition by the arch guys

I didn't realize Arch was this easy to install . I was doing it the hard way like always and never fails I find the easy way to do it after. Trying this method out. thank you.

Awesome video! I may try Arch sometime now. As for a name..."Roscoe". Have no idea why..when you asked for a name that popped in my head. Keep up the awesome work!

My inner and outer nerd very much enjoys your t-shirt!

As a linux beginner I was able to install arch alongside windows on the same drive, very easily and managed to get everything running. Pretty neat

ty for the great content. nice shirt ethernet color codes for a patch cable i think. its been a while since i have had to make cables but great video keep it up .

thank you veronica, nice video for all arch interested, like me :)

Ha, I love your shirt!

Gnome is always the long part of the process. I don't use the installer, I just grab a tablet and run through the steps. I usually get things going in about 15-20 minutes. I really love Arch, and I don't use it for cred, that's that the Arch T-shirt is for.

I'm a Arch Linux guy always have been, its very good!

A major win for my Linux journey was when I sat down with the Arch wiki and just gave it a go. And I actually ended up with a working system and sat some servers in this way. But if I need a new Arch install I do it through installers now, it's nice to know where the cogs can get clogged but after that let the machine install itself.

Name for the think pad: Larry. Origin: Of the three stooges, he was the one that took some of the hardest beatings and kept his sunny disposition the longest. I think that pretty much sums up a laptop destine for a lobotomy every couple of weeks.

I use Arch btw. love your channel.

Great video Veronica, I am going to Arch to see how it is and how it does, I am using the installer script

The most crucial part was iwctl. Before i stumbled on this video, i struggled with iwctl, archinstall commands. Later i follwed the scan, get-networks command & later exit the iwctl prompt. I figured it bit late but install is progressing well. Thanks im going with KDE plasma ❤

Thank you Veronica 🙏🏻

Hard drive encryption on Arch without having to mess with cryptsetup manually... I'll have to keep this in mind... Thanks for the tip!

I'm more comfortable with the traditional install. Only because that's how I was taught. I actually tried the script on a clean install, but it was a little confusing for me. I wiped the drive clean and started over. Hey from downtown!! We are in the Loring Park area. Love your videos!!

8 bit Era advantage : setting up your OS is a power switch 8 bit disadvantage: installing a different OS requires soldering 😊

I learned a lot using an arch distro - arcolinux, barebones arcolinuxd in particular, and using their git repos to install exactly what you require.

You should have started your channel yrs ago. My fav. Linux of all time was Ultimate 2.7 It was amazing and everything just worked. Well, Wi-Fi was a pain sometimes. Look, you made me want to install it and get it working on my desktop. Thanks. Going to do it now.

Great content. Please make a detailed video on different flavours of BSD, installation HOWTO, and usage as a desktop OS.

Thanks for the video! You make me wanna try Arch :) Up to now I have only used Manjaro (which is probably too bloated) and EndeavourOS (which I like).

I knew the ThinkPad was going to take to Arch pretty well. I installed Linux Mint on my R61, and it works especially great. In fact, most of my IT friends are fond of using ThinkPads for Linux distros.

I vote for the "Peace Arch" for the name. I often name my Raspberry Pis after Sci-Fi characters.

I might have used this archinstall if I'd have known about it, as I didn't want to install arch myself but wanted the arch genetics and ecosystem, so I did Manjaro, which worked out for me as a pretty satisfactory base to start personalising. Maybe archinstall could be even better, but there's no turning back for me now.

i love ur intro veronica ;o)

Recently manually installed it for the first time which was pretty tedious but i was proud to finally get a fully working system and now i see there is an install script lol. I will use that next time for sure.

Pretty cool video. Happy I found your tube channel (thx to Fosstodon friends telling me).

Arch in 30 minutes is off the chain!

This is just my obligatory algorithm user engagement comment. I'm not an arch user btw! Go Veronica! To the top!

Hello, fellow Linux KZfaqr! I just want to say that, doing anything with NixOS in a video, makes the channel blow up like crazy! I saw a 300X succes rate with my NixOS video!

It's fun that you call "old" a laptop that is newer then my newest laptop I own (and that one is more then enough for my needs) :)

Very good!!!

When you first try out arch you should use install manually. But it's good to have this option for when you need to get a machine up and running quickly

I suggest you call that thinkpad a thinkshow. And I wanna see how you build/compile a kernel or maybe some other software which a package is not available. As always thanks. Extraordinary content..... Veronica is awesome and so is Linux☺♥

had difficult time on machine with 2 drives. once i got past that issue, it was a great install.

I own a few Lenovo ThinkServers. One my wife has Windows on, I've got Linux Mint on another one that I use to live stream with (had to add a 2GB video card to that to help take the stress off of the integrated graphics card... Not good for streaming). I love them. They run great! The other 2 I haven't decided what to do with them yet. One I think will be a backup to this current system (which is now 12 years old... but still running strong). I've already installed Arch Linux on it. I did it all manually and it works great.

That's great, Veronica. You should to update your tutorial because "archinstall" in Arch Linux is already updated. So, I'm waiting for the next update about Arch Linux or anything about Linux.

I've used the default arch installation method nearly a dozen times now (from having to re-install arch to even doing partial re-installs to fix issues), over the past 10+ years I've been using arch; practically have the steps memorized by now xD. I think future installs will very much use the archinstall script simply for the time-saving.

a video on linux file systems would be great. many users just go with tried and true ext4 but btrfs backups with timeshift are just so wonderful!

Nice video! I've tried the new Arch install and I agree it's a good step forward, but... I'm still not mad about it 😁 Actually I'm using EndeavourOS, which is probably the closest derivative to vanilla Arch, but with a suuuuper easy installer and "yay" already setup along with "pacman" if you need extra software.

Arch: the ultimate newbie-friendly, just werks distro. I've installed Arch (and Gentoo) manually, but I never again :D I used archinstall on my current desktop and laptop, and I consistently recommend Arch+GNOME for any new users, especially considering all of the headaches I have using Ubuntu at work. I want to like KDE, but it's always irreparably Krashed on me any time I try to change themes in the GUI. Oh and I see they added the packagekit integration for the GNOME install, which is nice.

Bought a W540 Lenovo (Workstation) Laptop ,16 Gig Ram , 2 x 500 Gig HD Nvidea Card ,15' Screen , lot's of Ports , a bit heavy otherwise great , Installed Ubuntu Mint , went great . Use Cinnamon (used to it ) this cost me $ 240.00 Australian Dollars) I'm very very happy . Cheers from Albany Western Australia.