Install Arch Linux with ease, for a GNOME desktop or the text console, with an optional Recovery and System Manager.

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Features

• Minimal Arch Linux base: linux-zen, btrfs, systemd-boot
• Disk encryption and Secure Boot with your own keys
• One password unlocks the disk, logs in to GNOME and opens the keyring
• Btrfs snapshots before every package change
• Recovery on its own partition, rollback included, updates itself
• Recovery from the boot menu, the firmware and the app grid
• Falls back on its own: fallback image, then the Recovery
• GNOME on Wayland or a text console, drivers and guest tools detected
• Flatpak from GNOME Software, or Bazaar with GNOME Firmware
• Browser, backup app and text editor of your choice
• AUR helper, 32-bit support, containers, firewall, SSH
• File sharing with Windows and macOS
• Zram, an out-of-memory guard and tuned defaults for older machines
• Mirrors ranked, package cache trimmed, disks checked, quiet while offline
• Bootsplash, System Manager, Shell Enhancement
• Asks only what it cannot work out: keyboard, time zone and mirrors follow the language
• Installer resumes after an interruption, answers shareable as a code
• English and German, Adding a Language

Installation

1. Write the latest ISO to a USB stick with Ventoy or balenaEtcher
2. Set the firmware to UEFI and turn Secure Boot off
3. Boot from the USB stick, choose a profile (Core or Desktop), then Install now. It needs the internet, by cable or Wi-Fi
4. After the installation and the first reboot, turn Secure Boot on

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