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+title: "Artix Installation ISO"
+subtitle: "Resolving Calamares Issues"
+feathericon: "monitor"
+author: Hyperling
+started: 2026-09-06T12:00:00-07:00
+#date:    2026-07-15T14:59:10-07:00
+#lastmod: 2026-07-15T14:59:10-07:00
+toc: true
+audio: false
+images:
+tags:
+  - tech # food, drink, craft, poetry, blog, video, tech, tourism
+  - linux
+  - arch
+  - artix
+  - runit
+  - systemd
+  - gnome
+  - lxqt
+  - cinnamon
+  - iso
+  - calamares
+series:
+  - sysadmin
+categories:
+  - guides # recipes, musings, videos, articles
+  - articles
+aliases:
+  - /posts/blog/20260906-artix-new-hardware
+  - /posts/blog/artix-new-hardware
+  - /posts/guides/tech/20260906-artix-new-hardware
+  - /posts/guides/tech/artix-new-hardware
+  - /artix-new-hardware
+---
+
+## Intro
+
+Artix's installer runs fine on my mid 2010s Macbook Air, but on my early 2020s NovaCustom the Calamares installer was hanging at Gathering System Requirements. Here's how I got around it.
+
+## Steps
+
+1. Create bootable media with a GUI installer as you normally would, such as ```sudo dd if=./artix-cinnamon-runit-YYYYMMDD.iso of=/your/device bs=4M status=progress && sync```
+2. Restart the system and boot the media.
+3. Key down to CD/DVD/ISO option and press `e`.
+4. Add `nomodeset` and `modprobe.blacklist=wl` to the kernel options. ```setparams 'From CD/DVD/ISO: artix.x86_64 ' 'x86_64 nomodeset modprobe.blacklust=wl lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC ...```
+5. Press `ctrl+x` to save and launch the script.
+6. Allow the media to boot the desktop environment.
+7. Try the GUI installer and hopefully it's ready to go.
+    - If not, run `calameres -d` from the terminal rather than launching the desktop shortcut to see if any obvious errors appear, then troubleshoot from there.
+
+After you get it installed
+, if you notice issues with programs rendering properly
+, especially GTK apps where Qt apps work fine
+, [please see this article](/artix-intel-gpu).
+
+## Bonus
+
+Once you have Artix installed and have rebooted into it, I recommend enabling the `extra` repo from Arch.
+
+```
+# Update System
+sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm
+
+# Install Package
+sudo pacman -Sy artix-archlinux-support
+
+# Add Repository
+sudo echo -e "\n\n## Arch Repos (unsupported but recommended) ##\n" >> /etc/pacman.conf
+sudo echo "[extra]" >> /etc/pacman.conf
+sudo echo "/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch" >> /etc/pacman.conf
+
+# Ensure Success
+sudo pacman -Syy
+```
+
+
+## Sources
+
+The pages I learned about these hacks from.
+
+- *Artix with FDE* : [https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/InstallationWithFullDiskEncryption#LiveCD.2FLiveUSB](https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/InstallationWithFullDiskEncryption#LiveCD.2FLiveUSB)
+- *Artix Repositories* : [https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories#Arch_repositories](https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories#Arch_repositories)
+
+---
+
+[blog.hyperling.com/artix-new-hardware](/artix-new-hardware)