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by pxeboot 1335 days ago
Installing Arch with the cli installer [1] is pretty straightforward these days. It only becomes a lot more work if you have very specific preferences on partition layouts, filesystems and bootloaders. In my experience, changing these things on Ubuntu was even more difficult and less documented.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/archinstall
1 comments
mkl 1335 days ago
I haven't tried Arch, but in my experience changing those things in Ubuntu setup is simple and can be done in the GUI installer - I do it every fresh install. I haven't tried changing the bootloader; haven't had the need to.
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pxeboot 1335 days ago
There are many configurations that aren't (easily) possible with the GUI. The average user isn't going to care if they use LVM on LUKS or LUKS on LVM, but if you do, Arch makes it easy.

I personally prefer using EFISTUB instead of a bootloader, and this was very difficult to do on Ubuntu last time I tried.

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