Controversial #Opinion: Archinstall makes #archlinux harder to use.

If you do your install by hand, you know what was installed, you know how jankily it was done, and you know (presumably) what to look at when you screw something up in 3 years because it's been so stable you forgot you're supposed to read the news before updating.

If you use archinstall, you don't necessarily know exactly what packages were installed unless you're a particularly diligent admin. If you're using archinstall I can only assume you're not a particularly diligent admin. So when it breaks in 8 months because library Xyz.69420.so requires a manual adjustment that alpm can't handle you're SOL because you don't even know you have Xyz.69420.so on your system.

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