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Nobody has mentioned the guided installer that now ships with the vanilla Arch iso:
archinstallI've done the Arch installation from scratch a few times to add some inches to my e-peen, but the CLI installer does everything so nicely that I haven't bothered with a manual install for a while now.
I generally choose gnome (wayland), and add
pamac-nosnapfrom the AUR, and it's a super user friendly experience. Especially if you choose to use BTRFS during the install and then setuptimeshiftand add thetimeshift-autosnappackage once you are in the DE. For the handful of times I've ever had an issue with a package update, I just roll back to a previous snapshot and I'm back in action.