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Peyton McGinnis • Edited

I've always had trouble getting Arch setup. I think one time I even accidentally overwrote part of the boot sector using gparted...

Also, is that desktop XFCE? or something different?

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Douglas R Andreani

there is an installer for Arch called Architect which provide all the functionality necessary to install arch in a easier way

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Shreyas Ragavan

Antergos is another option based on Arch, with user friendly installation. Arcolinux is also a good option.

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Douglas R Andreani

If I'm not mistaken Antergos project was discontinued

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Shreyas Ragavan

Oh wow, I just looked this up and you are right. As of May 2019 it has been discontinued. That’s sad ! I used it for a long time before switching to Debian some months ago.

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Peyton McGinnis

Oh really? Interesting, I'll have to take a look at it. Thanks!

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Douglas R Andreani

Also ArcoLinux is Arch pre-configured with all that you need

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Raheem

It's Xorg + i3 + polybar. Really fast, and very easily configurable.

Regarding the boot sector: rip.