Sorry but this is a ridiculous argument. What entity has dropped nukes on an entire population? Who is the current president of the US? Insane take.

There’s also archinstall which comes with the latest os image which is just like any other installer and holds your hand through the process.

It’s really very simple to get arch installed

My salt is just a memorized password I put in addition to the one stored in pass

This is what I do. If someone can figure out pass with my password protected gpg, plus my passwords are partials (I salt them), and otp then they can have my access