{"id":88,"date":"2024-03-22T15:14:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/?p=88"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:14:55","slug":"arch-linux-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/arch-linux-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"~ Arch Linux Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Arch Linux Installation<\/h1>\n<h2>#Intro<\/h2>\n<p>I intended to document the Arch installation (v.2024.03.01) on both via the \u201cmenu\u201d installation and via the terminal.<\/p>\n<p>But in both instances I decided instead to give you my beginners opinion.<br \/>\nYou can find easily both process on the web from people with more expertise than me.<\/p>\n<p>I did use WIFI on both installation, so I had both time to first to connect my network via the terminal typing: (all the <u>word<\/u> like that are specific to me)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ip addr show<\/strong> (to check my address, I didn\u2019t have one so\u2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>iwctl<\/strong> (to enter the iwd)<\/li>\n<li><strong>station <u>wlan0<\/u> get-networks<\/strong> (to see available network)<\/li>\n<li><strong>exit<\/strong> (to exit iwd)<\/li>\n<li><strong>iwctl &#8211;passphrase \u201c<u>password<\/u>\u201d station <u>wlan0<\/u> connect <u>network<\/u><\/strong> (to connect to your network)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ip addr show<\/strong> (to check if now you have an ip address)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>#Easy Installation<\/h2>\n<p>As the word say, it was easy: I mean, you boot the system via USB flash drive, wait till load,<\/p>\n<p>type: \u201c archinstall \u201d just below the multicolored line and you are presented with a menu style where you edit every line, once at the end, confirm the settings and let the system boot.<\/p>\n<p>It probably took 15min in total which is what you want to be honest from a beginner point of view.<\/p>\n<p>I think the experience isn\u2019t harder than Debian 12 to be honest. It is also very minimal with no distraction. As I didn\u2019t encounter any problem I didn\u2019t feel was necessary to documented.<\/p>\n<p>Overall was a very good experience!<\/p>\n<h2>#Hard Installation<\/h2>\n<p>This was a long installation, for me at least.<\/p>\n<p>Again there was no point to document the process as half way trough I stop writing down every single line on my notebook. I try to follow the Arch instruction but\u2026 I\u2019m too new to the terminal.<\/p>\n<p>I followed the installation from \u201cLearn Linux TV\u201d. The only difference was size partitions and the fact that I installed plasma instead of gnome.<br \/>\nBasically you partition your drive and then start to install all the program and dependencies till finally you reach the end. I can see though the point: you have a granular control of you what you want and how on your machine, which is a big plus.<\/p>\n<p>No issue encounter here too, but credit to who I followed! By the way it took me almost two hours to complete the process if you wonder.<\/p>\n<h2>#Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Both way obviously have pro and cons but I\u2019m glad there is also an easy installation.<\/p>\n<p>One is faster and more intuitive but you have limited control; the other one has a slower process and require more knowledge but you are able to control everything.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously without the easy installation I would have opt to skip Arch for a while. Now at least I can start learning this system it too.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly I briefly note on Plasma, I can see why is so popular, you can personalize everything.<\/p>\n<p>I think soon I will maybe install Qtile to give it a go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arch Linux Installation #Intro I intended to document the Arch installation (v.2024.03.01) on both via the \u201cmenu\u201d installation and via the terminal. But in both instances I decided instead to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19],"tags":[28,29,21,30],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-software","tag-arch","tag-install","tag-linux","tag-plasma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradoxa.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}