1.0 Introduction
Arch being a fairly tricky distro to install in an entirely reliable way, various 'child' distros of it have sprung up, each trying to make the installation process simpler and more consistent. Manjaro is probably one of the more popular Arch 'child distros' to have arisen as a result of this need for 'Arch made simpler'! The distro generally behaves as 'proper Arch' would do and thus Niente runs on it without drama and the Niente installation process is identical to that you'd perform on Arch itself, too.
As with all these installation articles, I assume a fresh, default installation of the underlying operating system. I always assume, however, that any installer-provided options to install third-party programs, drivers or audio codec support are taken: not that it makes any difference to the way Niente works, but I just like to be clear on what my working assumptions are 🙂