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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My favorite part of Arch is reinstalling it over and over again. That first successful boot after the install gives too much dopamine.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    My favorite part of Arch is that my install from 5 years ago still works perfectly and I didn't have to do any major version upgrade that breaks everything.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just had to reinstall arch 3 times yesterday, since the installation script fucked up the partitioning.

    Reinstall nr1(manually, since the script didn't work): I forgot to add users and couldn't log into my machine Reinstall nr2(manually): my mirror lists was so fucked up that I couldn't install or update packages(there also were some missing databases) Reinstall nr3(script) : finally everything worked.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Don’t use the script. Ezpz problem solved

    [–] pete_the_cat 4 points 1 year ago

    Agreed. I've been installing it manually since 2012, never had an issue I couldn't quickly fix. I attempted to use the installer about 6 months ago and couldn't get past the disk partitioning step because it wouldn't allow me to do the things I needed to do, then I think it crashed.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    What's the point of installing Arch if you don't do it manually