note to self:
install the fucking network tools DURING the Arch installation, BEFORE you reboot and remove the install media.

wrote this handy dandy notebook guide up because i get tired of having to look up the archwiki

also i realized bootloader should come last

I think it's fucked up that you need a notebook or a wiki to install an OS. But that's just me 😄

@Froot it's usually a one time thing unless you just want to redo it, which alot of distro can't say

@PerfectAsshole Hmm ok. But what makes it different then? As in why is it a one time thing here and not on say Ubuntu? Why would you need to reinstall Ubuntu but not arch?

@Froot ubuntu versions have an end of life where you have to pretty much reinstall it and if you don't you have out of date packages until you do. arch is rolling release which means you install it once and update packages and you're good until either you screw up or the harddrive burns out and you always have the latest version.

this is more or less just the difference between 'freezed' distro and rolling release distro but their are very few rolling release distros so I just say arch

Noone mentions his awesome arch logo doodles? I'm so happy with my arch distro ❤️, hope you will love yours too

@A1rPun I didn't really look at the image before you mentioned them.

but installing arch isn't that complicated to take a full page. partition your hd(make sure you make an efi or/and a boot partition), mount the partitions, run pacstrap, install bootloader or setup efi, chroot and install what you want.

@Froot first time my dude
i'm very new to all of this

@PerfectAsshole But you can update Ubuntu versions. Like you can update your machine from 16.04 to 16.10 to 17.04 and so on with apt-get dist-upgrade. Isn't that the same? Or is there still something in there that will require you to reinstall eventually?

On an unrelated note, how is the software support on arch? You don't have to build everything yourself from source right? 😄

@Froot the "do-release-upgrade" cli updates between versions. it reinstalls the new version the same as a nuke and install, this sometimes fails where you have to reinstall it manually. might be fixed cause I stopped using it when it switched to unity.

there's a few things you might need to compile from source or use an aur helper to get but I haven't found anything that's not ubuntu specific that wasn't already compiled and ready to install

@Froot arch uses pacman as package manager. I'm using yaourt to download AUR packages tho.