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Hands-On with Arch Linux’s New Menu-Based Installer

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9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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Arch Linux 2022.05.01 has been released today as the ISO snapshot for May 2022, and it’s the first to ship with the latest Archinstall installer script that features the brand-new menu system.

Earlier this week, the Arch Linux developers released Archinstall 2.4.1 (it has been updated to version 2.4.2 a day later to fix a few bugs), a release that introduces numerous new features and improvements, as well as a brand-new menu system to make installing Arch Linux even easier for newcomers.

Now, the latest Archinstall version is shipped by default with the newest Arch Linux ISO snapshot for next-generation Arch Linux installations, and I was curious to find out how it works and how easy is to install this popular rolling-release distribution compared to the previous installation system.

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