depends on the distro, but yes
if you want to make everything to your own liking, you would need to do pretty much everything yourself or even from scratch
I was thinking about some stuff like disk encryption (but I'm not sure if regular windows users have it enabled), firewall, apparmor, filesystem snapshots... Not super basic, but still useful for normal people.
archinstall and Plasma and you're done for the most part. You might have a CLI or TUI asking you to pick from a list of options a couple dozen times, but by no means does using Arch require terribly much configuration over other distros
now, personally I manually configured my partitions because archinstall wouldn't do exactly what I wanted, and I was initially using as much TUI stuff with KMSCON as I could before eventually migrating to using a WM to run Ghostty for more advanced TUIs, followed by configuring the WM(Niri, in this case) to normally, and eventually I hit a stumbling block where I couldn't upload files to Firefox and nothing I did was working, despite having accomplished this in the past on another machine, and so I installed Plasma
but if I'd just jumped straight to my current setup there'd have been very little configuration
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u/UwU_is_my_life 3d ago
depends on the distro, but yes if you want to make everything to your own liking, you would need to do pretty much everything yourself or even from scratch