Great news. The idea of having an installation process as a gatekeeper is laughable. The more people who get access to Arch the better. It is the best distro in my opinion.<p>I also find the it kind of ironic that the Arch community want effortless hidpi scaling but aren’t willing to let people into there elitist gated community.<p>Linux is not a platform for elitism.
I like the manual install method of Arch. I guess if their plan is to increase market share this is a good move but the manual install method represented a small bit of nice gatekeeping for the distro.<p>There was always a number of wiki articles and tutorials that helped people but it still wasn't new user friendly simple level. Other distributions that had easier interfaces easier installation methods were great for teaching people and keeping the training wheels on or allowing them to cut their teeth on so to speak. The other distros also have communities a built around onboarding new users and answering a new user questions. Once they were able to understand those basics and the few problems that need to be overcome on a daily use basis moving to Arch becomes quite simple after that.<p>Hopefully this doesn't flood the community with issues or questions that the community doesn't want to deal with.
Wow, it's about time after the deprecation of the old installer. NOT saying the actual way is bad, but manjaro and stuff shows the need for a easy install.