Lots of choices when installing Arch

[balmy wyvern]

The first big problem I'm facing is Wayland vs X11

I do quite a bit of gaming and I've heard that Wayland has some trouble with that, which should I choose?

[lapis nexus]

What GPU brand do you have?

NVIDIA cards do have some trouble with Wayland though it does depend on the DE/WM choosen

[meager mountain]

Wayland is generally better for gaming if not on Nvidia

[balmy wyvern]

Nvidia, I think I'm going to go with Xorg

Seems to be a simpler process and I don't want any more headaches with Graphics stuff, had enough already

[meager mountain]

if you use KDE, it installs wayland and xorg versions of it

so you can see if wayland would want to cooperate with graphics

[balmy wyvern]

I think I'm going to go with XFCE and LeftWM

Seems like that'd be a really lightweight setup

[indigo knot]

I've heard that with xfce you have to turn off the compositor while playing games otherwise you'll experience frame drops and stuttering

[austere axle]

how do i do that

[indigo knot]

Settings > Window Manager Tweaks > Compositor > Enable Display Compositing and then uncheck the option

[vocal cloak]

yo @balmy wyvern have you figured it all out let

yet

[balmy wyvern]

I'm pretty sure I known what to choose, actually doing it is the problem:/

The archinstall script doesn't work for me

[vocal cloak]

do you want help with that, or-?

[balmy wyvern]

That'd be great!

I want to install arch on nvme0n1

[vocal cloak]

whats nvme1n1

does it have windows or something

[balmy wyvern]

My windows install

These are the settings I use:

I left everything at default and only set the partition layout and the root password

[vocal cloak]

are you ok with me walking you through a manual install

[balmy wyvern]

And when I select install, I get this error:

[vocal cloak]

or ig show that

[balmy wyvern]

I'd like to get the install script to work, if that isn't possible I'll try a manual install first and then ask for help

It says something is already mounted

That output of lsblk looks like this sfter I tried to script

[vocal cloak]

simply run pacman -Syu and press enter when it asks for confirmation

that should fix archinstall

id rather do a manual install, mainly because of bias, but archinstall is fine

[balmy wyvern]

Ooh okay

Thanks!

[balmy wyvern]

Next time I install arch maybe, I don't think I'm experienced enough to get many benefits from a manual instaol

[vocal cloak]

a neat thing about manual install is that you can use the windows boot partition as arch's boot partition, meaning you have less partitions to mess up

[vocal cloak]

i could absolutely walk you through it

[vocal cloak]

it also means you don't need an fstab (unless you use swap)