What should i know before installing arch?

[young anvil]

How long would it take to get it to a usable point (full desktop, etc)

[limber cobalt]

@young anvil depends on what de/wm you want

and other factors

[young anvil]

i think im going to use kde plasma, as that is what im using right now (with endeavouros)

or maybe hyprland

[limber cobalt]

wayland or x11, amd or nvidia, laptop or desktop?

[young anvil]

nvidia laptop

[limber cobalt]

I would recommend installing auto-cpufreq, it's an automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop's battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature and system load

[limber cobalt]

open?

[young anvil]

wdym?

[limber cobalt]

nvidia-open?

[young anvil]

idk

[limber cobalt]

pacman -Q |grep nvidia

[limber cobalt]

that is a | not a l

[limber cobalt]

try open on stock arch

[young anvil]

ok?

[limber cobalt]

wayland or x11?

[young anvil]

idk

i think i might just stick with the os i have

[limber cobalt]

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

[young anvil]

wayland

[limber cobalt]

manual install or archinstall?

[young anvil]

i dont know

[limber cobalt]

try manual first

[young anvil]

im going to stick with the os i have rn, but it might try to install it later

[limber cobalt]

ok

... solved

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[dreamy marten]

Its fine to use archinstall at first imo. More exp user dont like it but its not bad imstaller. Try the distro see if you like it. Its great for quick and first setup.

[limber cobalt]

tl;dr: For an experienced user, 10-30 mins. For a new user: 30mins- ~3 hours

[dreamy marten]

Its not super long to do an install and get some first pkgs installed, but its an endless journey ahead, Im constantly learning new stuff about arch and linux in general.

[dreamy marten]

Yah for manual that sounds about right

To really answer your question though I'd say learn to use the CLI, it really helps in any distro. @young anvil