[arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Steve,

> I need to end up with a distro that has good driver support, and very
> low resource utilization and gets me to a GUI in 20 steps or less,
> which are clear steps. 

IIRC you have 1 GiB RAM to play with so you probably need to consider
what GUI you want and what you expect to be able to do with it once
you've got it, e.g. X Windows System and XFCE desktop.

Since your main concern seems to be hardware support, use an Arch
derivative that boots into an X desktop off the live ISO so you can
easily test the hardware.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch-based_distributions#Active is
a list and includes the already mentioned ArchBang.  Manjaro is another
popular option.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.