Ok I dug out good ol' broke screen, plugged it into a monitor, downloaded Arch, and put it on a jump drive. Thus begins my adventures in advanced Linux distro installation.
I'm excited. I've never really done a Nix deep dive. I've always run straightforward 'desktop user' distros with graphical partition managers that do everything for you. Wireless connections are part of the install. Piece of cake.
The Arch Linux install boots you to a prompt, with a great install.txt file as a guide. That's it. So the first step is setting up the partitions. Bam. First wall to climb. Even with graphical partition managers I've never taken the time to truly understand how Linux partition tables are typically set up (I know, I suck). So at the first step I have a lot to learn!
As I progress through this project (with my amount of knowledge this is truly a project), I'll post updates.
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