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[fleet holly]

what exactly in the installation process are you confused by?

[young bloom]

I dont know anything really. If I had to name something specific I guess it would be the starting process.

[young bloom]

if someone could tell me what to do sso i can follow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxeriGuJKTM this tutorial but only on my second ssd that would be great

[analog stratus]

You can follow the video or the Arch wiki.

You use windows?

[young bloom]

windows 11 on the main ssd yes

[analog stratus]

Do you have any other drives?

[young bloom]

i have 2 ssds and the usb i have my arch iso on

[analog stratus]

Did you use/install linux before?

[young bloom]

no

[analog stratus]

Why Arch Linux? Why not something like Linux Mint or Ubuntu...?

[young bloom]

because i want to learn it

[analog stratus]

If you want to actually learn you install Arch linux on a Virtual Machine instead of an actual drive.

Try Virtual Box.

So if you screw up, you can just delete the VM and create a new one.

[viscid rain]

if you want yo dualboot, just run the command 'lsblk' on the installation media

it shoud give an output like

/dev/nvme0n1             someGB
/dev/nvme1n1        someotherGB

if the drives have dufferent sizes

then just follow the installation steps

at the part 'partioning' use the drive (/dev/nvmesomething) you want to install archlinux on

it shouldnt effect your windows drive if you use the right drive

[young bloom]

whats the difference between manually installing it and archinstall

?

[analog stratus]

It's the difference between learning and not.
Doing it manually teaches you a lot, but using archinstall is like just installing Windows.