First released in 2002, Arch Linux boasts of of delivering latest packages. This is a good thing considering you are using Debian. So thought of giving a try on my new HP Probook.
This is what GNU has to say about Arch
Arch has the two usual problems: there's no clear policy about what software can be included, and nonfree blobs are shipped with their kernel, Linux. Arch also has no policy about not distributing nonfree software through their normal channels.
Before start installing Arch, the best thing to do is to find the fastest mirrors available. For this you need to install the package reflector using the package manager pacman
pacman -S reflector
Then run it with
reflector --verbose -l 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Then I used the tutorial in Wikihow to install Arch.
To install GNOME.
pacman -S gnome gnome-extra gnome-system-tools
Then install GDM
pacman -S gdm
Run the following command to start GDM automatically
systemctl enable gdm.service
Then reboot and if everything goes will you will be getting Arch with Gnome.
To install xorg, run
pacman -S xorg-server
Follow the Arch wiki for installing display driver.
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