I firmly believe this, what about you?

[lobstermane@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss It’s good to learn how to do it manually once so you learn about each component of an OS and know what’s what but not everyone hs the time to configure things every time they do a reinstall. That’s why I love NixOS. I have my config and can set up a machine to use my preferred setup and packages in <30 min and changes stay consistent across machines.

[canella@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss I agree, but up to a point and I'll explain; to learn how to install and configure ArchLinux (but Linux in general), using archinstall is not recommended. But after you learn how to do it, if you're working (and by working I mean someone pays you for your work) and maybe you want to use ArchLinux to do a Firewall or something, having archinstall that lets you quickly install a minimal version is a nice help, believe me.

[lai0602@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss But for noobs like me, I'd say it helps getting started (Even though I still get lots of trouble while using `archinstall`)

[b1_66er@defcon.social]

@itsfoss it surely took away some of the mystique

[qwertviop@chaos.social]

@itsfoss What do you mean? Do you not want your Lego's to come pre-assembled too? /j

[kenjiwhe@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss It's still Arch and Arch rules.

[angrylinus@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss no one is stopped using manual installation. Archinstall allowed accessibility

[fynnnd@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss if you don't like it don't use it. No point in removing things others like, just because you don't

[nroth@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss Archinstall doesn't support my use case, so I never use it, but Arch still works.

For many people though, I would imagine that having a script makes this tinker-friendly distro more accessible. Arch doesn't carry strong opinions, so user meddling tends not to cause instability. That's the real fun imo

[garretsidzaka@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss
I don't know what that script is and I'm not going to find out