I actually don’t get the fuzz/meme about Arch Linux. Yes, the installer drops you into a shell where you need to fix the keyboard layout for starters and the next thing is preparing enough disk resources for the OS which is somehow ungodly hard. My point is that if you can’t then you are not qualified to maintain the installation, or actually RTFM and start to fr think what you do.
This was actually my experience also, so I went back to a manual install to just get it done. I think the
archinstall
script won’t get any configuration of device-mapper/LVM right (including disk encryption withcryptsetup
). The disk encrypt setup had even more hoops to go through than just LVM.