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I thought I would write a little bit about the mindset you need to have when going into Arch Linux. Dank memers made the arch installation process into something too hard, but really it’s hazing. People who are willing to mess around with their computer in the terminal are likely willing to mess around with it more for fun. These are the people arch linux wants. Sometimes it works, sometimes what it get’s is a bit different (neofetch users!). If you are a beginner who likes toying around and experimenting, Arch Linux wants you.

Don’t be scared of the installer. It’s not that bad. You will follow a tutorial or the big scary (but excellent) wiki. This time, it’s some tutorial off youtube. You run cfdisk, but things are not adding up. It opens /dev/sda , and in the video you


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