How to Install Arch Linux: Step-by-Step Guide (archinstall)

[@SavvyNik]

Have you used an Arch based Linux distro before?

[@Vantud391]

I tried Archcraft, look pretty but still not for me.

[@16-dipyendudas84]

Yes daily driving it

[@shadyKING057]

Im using Arch-based distro. I found CachyOS best Windows replacement, everything just works, and im pretty sure it works better than other distributions out of the box. And because i distro-hop to try new things and also sometimes going back fully to Windows when I'm conceptually upset about Linux because I can't play games with anti-cheats it doesn't make sense for me to always waste time and do everything myself on pure Arch.

[@viddeshk8020]

No, i haven't yet. I will use in seperate or old machine in the near future. I used Ubuntu before and I loved it. But I encounter some nvidia driver issue now I am using windows 😢

[@Kverkele]

CachyOS 🖤

[@osamabadawi7036]

Thanks bro i was very scared of installing arch but your guide made me do it bravely without breaking anything. Thanks for your guide❤

[@SavvyNik]

Love to hear it. You’re welcome!

[@jaiwonderkid7291]

If you wanna install manually, follow Arch Linux Comfy Guide by DenshiVideos

[@alpacamale2909]

Dude the first time I installed arch was with one of your guides. I had some fun but the whole process was way too tedious. Archinstall has made things better.

[@SavvyNik]

Love to hear it. The install process has changed a lot. For the better honestly haha

[@NamanShrestha-q3m]

Your guide was very helpful. Because I had tried myself and i was lost. Thank you

[@SavvyNik]

You’re welcome

[@JadeLivao]

"Great step-by-step guide on installing Arch Linux! Covers everything from downloading the ISO to setting up the desktop environment. Perfect for beginners and pros alike. Thanks for the clear instructions!

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jaw6565]

Great instructions mate, thank you. I installed using EndeavourOS but i am now going to try your install instructions.

[@Sicnus]

Haven't seen it in the comments yet, but you don't need to type: sudo reboot if you are already root. :) sudo means "do things as root" If you are root you can just do them. Thanks for the video! Debating if I want to use Arch again, it's been 10 years since I last used it lol.

[@its_stel]

I've been wanting to switch to linux for years, your tutorial made it possible. Have tried a few distros but i never really liked any of them. Arch feels different. Hyperland looks better for me. Thanks a lot ❤❤❤❤

[@SavvyNik]

Love to hear it! Congrats on your new distro

[@MrSuvvri]

you know there are many distros that install just like your everyday windows app with a gui installer?

[@JesseOrSomething]

this is the best video ever, thank you so much!

[@SavvyNik]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@lukjasin]

Good work. I was looking for something like this. I'm to old and to lazy to do everything from scratch.

[@SavvyNik]

Yeah it gets a little old once you’ve done it a few dozen times lol

[@unconnectedbedna]

Good job, doesn't have to be more complicated than that. Although, for a desktop computer in 2024, I think having a separate home should be standard, you should have touched a little on that. I'm also a huge fan of btrfs with the snapshot capability it brings. It is pretty nice to have a built in restore function in your filesystem, but that is more personal preference. Also, after installation, you are still root when you reboot/shutdown. Super user does what now? xD

[@teasippingbrit]

There aren’t benefits to separating /home and / except if you are distro hopping

[@unconnectedbedna]

@teasippingbrit There absolutely are. complete partition backups is one reason, complete system failure where reinstall is best option is another. Expanding storage space is a third. Systemd-homed is a fourth. Just from the top of my head.

[@Henry-sv3wv]

I use EndeavourOS to install Arch Linux because that does have a proper live iso for help from firefox and copy paste and not ugly default font for my eyes. Did i mention you don't have copy paste on the arch iso because there is no X11 or wayland running? With fugly default font for my eyes and no zooming the fonts with Ctrl-+ like in the xfce terminal. But the arch iso must be tiny for a 1980 Unix Terminal, right? NOPE, i can fit at least two Porteus Linuxes inside the iso and that comes with xfce desktop.

[@tacobo]

Wow the last time I installed arch was 10 years ago. It’s way easier now.

[@aboba3061]

I get many module not found errors. The last one I got is no module named pedantic

[@AncienMultico]

I personally put firefox on additional packages and chose KDE plasma and gnome for desktop environments

[@UltraExplainer153]

Im rn stuck at archinstall checking version 😢😢 my wifi is working I cheked it by ping

[@shadyKING057]

Why not EndeavourOS? Same thing but with gui installer & EndeavourOS branding

[@SavvyNik]

Have you tried a new installer image? Maybe there’s something wrong with the one you have

[@kitsune-chan6897]

I second this. I had a similar issue and I ended up down loading the previous ISO image. That did the trick.​@@SavvyNik

[@DmytroDrapei]

Can you please make a guide how to install hyperland after you installed arch with KDE. I haven't found an installation guide covering that topic. And I don't know how to do it. With some dot files. Thank you!

[@ultraprimez]

Installing may be easy but maintenance and update is something different story. I use cachyOS for ease of maintenance and updates.

[@MrSuvvri]

its literally the same thing lol. Just instead of typing sudo pacman -Syu you run your app and press a button that types that in for you

[@EmongTimothy]

thank you

[@SavvyNik]

Glad it helped

[@EmongTimothy]

@ after much hustle with not hope finally I got it installed loving the minimal resource utilisation.

[@mrdexter2687]

Thank you for the guide but I follow all steps after installation is complete and seeing that no errors have occur, I restart pc and try to boot device but I get an error.

[@ultrasoundaudio7844]

I setup the manual network instead of copy from ISO, so i should enter the ch-root and enable the NetworkManager, right?

[@SavvyNik]

You can fix it on your current setup. Try and run through the same steps. You should still have iwctl

[@Gl_gaminglord]

Idk but it reboots into terminal. I can put my password and all that stuff but it doesn't go into arch linux

[@Ramzi-ov9sg]

Thanks Broooo

[@SavvyNik]

Np

[@Aspect818]

Help please i dont see my storage disk when trying to pick one for installing linux i only see the usb

[@michaeljaques77]

Where were you when I was installing Arch not one week ago, Nik? WHERE WERE YOU?! 🤣 Only think I don't like about the archinstall script is the 3 partition (boot root and home) maxes out root at 50 GB which is pretty darn small. You either need to know to NOT do this (ie. just go for root and home together as one partition) or to manually partition which is okay if unintuitive.

[@SavvyNik]

Haha! Hopefully you followed one of my older videos…

[@ytltqsoft]

Looks like archinstall still spend forever waiting for NTP to complete when I disconnect the NIC, even if I turn NTP off.

[@claudemartin5402]

im trying to install arch through vmware, and I'm having trouble with time synchronization

[@adarshnegi3691]

It gives me errors everytime. I like to seperate my root and home partitions. And it doesn't like it when i do that.

[@HanMoP]

Didn't work on 2025 image...

[@jackoliver4334]

dident work for me, it doest how any distro in boot, and if i start it it open shell page, uefi interactive shell blah blah if you have a solution let me know

[@null3485]

Having this problem rn. How did you fix it?

[@elitesooraj]

hows cachyos

[@HorseyGoose]

After going through everything and getting to the user login everything freezes when I try to enter my password. I'm running hyprland if that matters. Im new to all of this.

[@SavvyNik]

If you try to go to one of the tty consoles (Ctrl + alt + f2 or f3, f4, f5,f6) does it load into a command line and ask for login? If you login do you get a shell?

[@HorseyGoose]

@@SavvyNik I tried getting to the tty consoles from the login page and it doesn't let me.

[@HorseyGoose]

Nevermind it just started working for some reason

[@Aspect818]

Please help i really want to try linux

[@quantumhacz]

Dude my pc finally have a os system😮😮😮

[@mandicvuk]

im installing arch for 8th from lot's tutorials and im stuck with login loop, i enter correct password and i cant login, please help, i once installed it manualy and it worked well but i cant install it with archinstall, pls help

[@SavvyNik]

Maybe it’s a mismatch of keyboard settings. This could lead you to typing the pass incorrectly post install. I assume you’re setting up the correct type during installation. Did you create a regular user and a root user?

[@mandicvuk]

@SavvyNik my password contains only nunbers and i tried both with numerical part of keyboard and numbad, i created a root user but im unale to login as root too even in terminal, ctrl alt f1

[@Rafael-vk6xq]

i want my partition to be specifc but i cant understand how to do it, heeeelp

[@bhargavjitbhuyan9394]

Just install endeavourOS. It is the closest to vanilla arch or cachyos, basically arch + crazy performance optimization.

[@usernameistakenlastname2742]

Geez this is ezpz compared to the old install method.

[@movetvisrael]

14:02

[@nichohells]

- So Arch is now a mainstream distro?! - Always has been 🌍👩‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

[@sheldonkupa9120]

Arch linux the ez way : Endeavour OS😄😉👍

[@demonwizard2162]

Never again shall I install Arch manually. After two times of installing it manually I've had enough it's just too much😅

[@demonwizard2162]

The only reason I'm going for Arch is because of hyperland

[@xgui4-studios]

why would i install a linux that coudl break at any time when i aleady have a system that work (fedora +windows 11) on a laptop ???

[@necuz]

Hate to break it to you but Windows 11 can definitely break at any time.

[@newplayer7743]

You never update your Arch but by reinstalling it. World record is just over a minute, that's why.

[@OceanusHelios]

Yeah. Arch is so unpopular because it always breaks (it doesn't). Oh wait, let me check, it is popular, and it is flexible, and it will be the first to handle new hardware.

[@zbunk8260]

i've had fedora break on me more times than arch has

[@Kamion008]

Arch is very easy to use after you have installed it

[@rtoledo2]

I don't and I do get it , BUT installing Debian SID is so much easier and you have the latest as that is what Arch is supposed to be . but I get it this is todays version of my youth Pontiac 66 gto , 396 4 on the floor and all the rubber burning in one spot without doing circles like todays kids do. There I showed my age 66 , But after I left Slackware and moved onto Debian there's been no better distro IMO . but who cares right ? this is torture just to have the nerd creds. no flame wars just had to say it, no wonder STEAM has not been able to release it for so long , I know my youngest who plays the most will NEVER EVER be able to install Arch .

[@TON-vz3pe]

Just use fedora

[@AR_-xi5xg]

I miss the AUR

[@haz3l0840]

Both are good operating systems, it's really by preference

[@Appalling68]

Ugg...the Archinstall scipt. Buh bye.

[@Klusio19]

Why u mad bro

[@zbunk8260]

@tristen_grant it's annoying when you're trying to find a manual installation video and every single one is about using the script

[@D.S69]

Thanks