Head over to the Arch Linux download section and click the torrent link for the latest version (I'm not pasting the link here, because arch evolves so fast that next time anyone reads this gist it is very likely that it will already be old).Install qBittorrent (which will be used to download an iso copy of arch) by running the following command from the command line choco install qbittorrent (recommended to run the command line as an administrator).Install the windows package manager chocolatey.There isn't much of preparation required, given that I started from scratch, but I did have to setup my windows environment a little bit. But along the way, I also noted a few other steps steps I took to make this system very comfortable, which you'll have to figure out for yourself if you like them or not! Setting up Windows 10 to be ready Below I note down the steps I took, which closely follow the excellent wiki pages of archlinux.

I recently upgraded to a new system, and instead of running Arch Linux natively I've decided to run it inside VirtualBox on Windows 10.

Installing Arch Linux on VirtualBox in Windows 10

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