What Linux distro is like Arch but easier to install?

Thanks for the A2A.

From my perspective, this question needs clarification. What does “like Arch” mean?

The whole point of Linux distros is different purpose and taste. If Arch was like any other and just harder to install, what would be the point of Arch? That doesn’t make sense.

Slackware is another do-it-yourself options but certainly not easy to install. Debian is similar but has development and hardware problems. Manjaro is a derivative and easier to install, but certainly not Arch. There are significant differences.

Maybe closest could be ArcoLinux, Salient OS and maybe… not so good but closer… Endeavor OS.

Salient OS is for gamers. Endeavor OS is the successor of Antergos. Hint: ask yourself, why they have discontinued it! Endeavor now uses the same installer as Manjaro, but is just more complicated to use. It’s closer to Arch though. ArcoLinux offers to ease people into Arch in stages.

The question is WHY. Arch is really not that hard to install. It’s just DIFFERENT, not difficult. It’s simple. You just don’t understand it yet. There are Youtube videos that show you the whole setup.

Arch does the same as every other distro. It just doesn’t do it for you with a clicky-thingy. It does it in plain sight.

You prepare your hard drive, mount the partitions for the installation, put the file system on it, chroot into the installed file system to set the root password and install the boot loader… then you can reboot the thing, create the user, install everything else you need… it’s really not that hard to understand!

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