> Such an approach is usually looked down upon in the Arch community.
That's really too bad, because I think a method for sharing curated sets would be great. Maybe the problem isn't so much that sets would be bad, but that it might cause people's expectations of arch to change. Like, if you do everything yourself and it breaks, it's your fault, but if the system does it for you and it breaks, now it's arch's/the maintainer's fault. I don't know if that would happen, but it seems like there might be some danger of a cultural shift.
Anyway, Antergos... It looks like it uses Ubiquity to install, so I'm not sure it seems any better than anything else I've tried, but I'm only just starting to check it out so maybe there's more to it.
[edit] oh, duh, I see now that Antergos is arch-based. It looks nice. I'll have to see what the text-based installer is like.
I think Manjaro is actually the most popular distro based on Arch. Has versions with XFCE or KDE pre-installed, and has packages for many others (Cinnamon, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, Gnome, LXDE, LXQT, MATE, etc). Main difference from Arch is that it maintains its own repositories and adds Arch updates only after they're deemed reliable. (Although if you'd prefer to use Arch repositories I think you can install Manjaro and convert it into plain Arch system.)
That's really too bad, because I think a method for sharing curated sets would be great. Maybe the problem isn't so much that sets would be bad, but that it might cause people's expectations of arch to change. Like, if you do everything yourself and it breaks, it's your fault, but if the system does it for you and it breaks, now it's arch's/the maintainer's fault. I don't know if that would happen, but it seems like there might be some danger of a cultural shift.
Anyway, Antergos... It looks like it uses Ubiquity to install, so I'm not sure it seems any better than anything else I've tried, but I'm only just starting to check it out so maybe there's more to it.
[edit] oh, duh, I see now that Antergos is arch-based. It looks nice. I'll have to see what the text-based installer is like.