I'm back! A couple of points on the migration guide
I'm back, but doubt anyone missed me, or noticed I was here in the first place
Went over to Gentoo for about about a year but for various reasons got sick of that, then reinstalled Arch. To see if I could possibly tolerate systemd now. I can't. So I'm back.
My first ever post on here was a tongue in cheek review of the migration guide.
Migrated again and heres a few thoughts:
I decided to try with the runit init. Things made perfect sense up until "Networking", with the code blocks split between the different inits.
But the networking block I could clearly see was aimed only at openrc. I know how to bring my my static Ethernet up on the command line so I left that bit, finished the guide and rebooted. My Plasma desktop started with startx (all I ever use) straight away but no mouse. I spent a short while trying to sort that out. But I know few Plasma keyboard shortcuts and find it tiresome fault finding and fixing from the console so wiped the cloned / partition, re-cloned and started again with openrc as the init. This time all was well and my mouse worked and very little issues at all. (I'll try a separate migration to runit from openrc in the future)
There were a few file conflicts installing the new packages. I just deleted the offending files, not a biggie but might be worth mentioning in the guide ?
This bit is wrong
Should be cp -vf /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.artix /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Also there's in a reference to the "universe" repo but this no longer exists. So autofs should maybe be removed from the guide. AFAIK it's not in your repo's just on AUR ?
As the rest of the guide is split into separate code blocks, for the various init's, maybe consider doing the same for the networking block ?
Anyway I'm in no way complaining. The idea of replacing systemd, on a working arch install, sounds almost impossible but it just works thanks to the guide. So yet again "Top bombing". Almost miraculous.
Edit: I just found the universe repo. Mainly my bad.
But maybe info on where it is ?
I just added
[universe]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch
and gave up straight away when it wasn't found!