I want to get into Arch Linux, but I don’t have that much experience and I feel like it’ll be easier to set it up in a virtual machine rathen than dual booting, I’ve used Oracle VirtualBox before but it’s very laggy. Are there any other VMs that aren’t as laggy, or do I just have a hardware issue?
Don’t worry, if he installs Arch from scratch, it will take him a long time before even having internet connection or installing X.
That’s just a meme. If you can follow some basic instructions, you can setup arch.
This. There’s archinstall now, too. A bit buggy in my experience so I prefer the old fashioned way.
Have you heard of our lord and savior chroot?
Dunno why are people spreading this myth… Arch is not that hard to install and you don’t get a gold medal for installing it. I installed it with LXDE in an office machine, it only took me an hour.
It depends, I installed it from base, text mode, I had to edit some config file to add my network interface and systemctl restart network etc, then pacman to install X, Xfce, etc, by hand. I guess the best thing is to install Manjaro for instance, it takes a few minutes and you have full GUI and everything.