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You may have just sold me on Arch.
I have never been able to hold down an Ubuntu install for very long without getting that dreaded
you have held broken packagesscold.Yeah, I love Arch for the same reasons. Try installing it in a VM and using it a bit, and you'll see that it's quite an easy OS to use now.
You can follow the wiki guide and really have a solid systems that is just yours. That will take some time and can be a little frustrating.
Or use the installer script they have included for a year or more now and get to a working desktop in 20-30 minutes.
But if you feel the need to trim down the scripted version, you can make it just a strong as the step-by-step install in a few hours.
I have used the same step-by-step based on the wiki install since 2016, on my daily driver laptop