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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.

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
• Artix Repositories : https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories#Arch_repositories

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