I've just completed my Arch GNOME base installation and basic configuration and would like to share the experience, if anyone is interested. :-) 1. I performed base Arch install from within my host system - Ubuntu 10.04 following the Wiki instructions. I must say that was extremely enjoyable experience. The installation process itself was real fun and interesting, and went smoothly without any problems except 2 minor glitches: a) The documentation said that a copy of the Beginners' Guide would be found in /usr/share/aif/docs/official_installation_guide_en after botting into base system, but it was not there and the directory did not exist. This was really a minor glitch since an immediate and easy workaround was pacman -S lynx, and I was up and running reading the doc from the web. b) The documentation promised an option of a selective gnome and gnome- extra group install with pacman but it was not given. Any workaround (discussed on this group) appeared not to worthy to mess up with (I am a lazy boy) and I ended up installing both groups in their entirety. 2. I was amazed by the wealth, quality and consistency of documentation available to users on Arch wiki. I would say Arch is the best documented distro I've come across so far. Now I have plenty of time to test the system thoroughly but the beginning is very encouraging. My compliments to Arch team.