(No provocation)
I see these reasons:
- newbie
- lazy (don’t wanna edit config files etc.)
- unique features (like assistant/toolbox, some optimizations like in cachyos)
- wanna check how different systems are set up (that’s rather distrohopping)
Personally, I used manjaro i3 when I was beigginer and wanted to see how tiling WM should be configured (check out ranger config, for example). But after some time, I don’t see reasons why not to just customize pure arch (same with debian and debian-based distros).


I’m surprised to hear that archinstall doesn’t start with setting the keyboard layout. I have only installed manually and IIRC the installation guide shows how to change the layout as the first step after booting into the installer.
Yea, that would in my book be more important as it would make it WAY easier for the rest of the world 😅