help with Installing

[haymaliia]

Hello, I want to install Arch Linux ARM on a RPi3 from a Windows 10 machine

But problem is:
- I can't find an image on the Arch Linux ARM website for some strange reason (I'm a Windows user so I'm sort of used to super obvious and simple practical things actually being taken care of on a logical spot, I have found that the exact opposite is usually the case in Linux )
- Arch doenst work with NOOBS
- The instructions provided on the ALARM website do not work from a Windows machine, I even tried the option to run Ubuntu under Windows 10 that exists these days because Microsoft actually wants to make things easy but to no avail.

I managed to install ALARM on an RPi2 so the SD card formatting thing works, I managed to install NOOBS on the Pi3 so the Pi3, the SD card and the power supply are good as well.... and because there is some ancient image floating around somewhere that works on the Pi2 this seems to be the only way for it to work (why on earth this image is not simply available on the Arch Linux webste is beyond me I must say).

However... I can't get the Pi3 beyond the rainbow screen with the image I used for the Pi2 so I'm stuck.

Is it possible to use an image that simply works on a Pi3 or just instructions that work on a Windows machine?

Since this is all so blatantly obvious and so extremely common (Windows... Pi3..) I'm sure I must have overlooked something on the ALARM website so a link would be highly appreciated.

Thanks for your help!

[moonman]

- Windows users think click and run, *nix users think type and run. Sorry to disappoint you there, but it's windows users, who are complaining about linux being backwards, are backwards. Yes windows click and run logic does not apply here. By the way, Linux is more common than Windows
- Arch follows KISS principle . This applies to the design of the OS, not ease of use.
- Quoting the main page: "Arch Linux ARM carries forward the Arch Linux philosophy of simplicity and user-centrism, targeting and accommodating competent Linux users"

So after you read the above, the answers to your questions are: No, there will not be a way to install ArchLinux ARM from Windows. If you can't get ALARM installed, it is probably not the distribution for you. However, if you do decide to try, the help is here once you step away from Windows and are actually willing to start learning how to use Linux.