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[massysett]

Installing Arch is one big tinker session. The install instructions have “To verify the boot mode, check the UEFI bitness” as one of the first steps.

[jcelerier → massysett]

There's a thousand of graphical frontend installer for Arch and Arch-derivatives, like cachyOS, endeavour, etc. Hell, it even has an archinstall script nowadays. I installed it a couple times by hand for fun but if you want a rolling-release Linux distro that uses pacman there are many ways as easy as Ubuntu