I recently upgraded to a new system, and instead of running Arch Linux natively I've decided to run it inside VirtualBox on Windows 10. Below I note down the steps I took, which closely follow the excellent wiki pages of archlinux. But along the way, I also noted a few other steps steps I took to make this system very comfortable, which you'll have to figure out for yourself if you like them or not!
There isn't much of preparation required, given that I started from scratch, but I did have to setup my windows environment a little bit.
- Install the windows package manager chocolatey
- Install qBittorrent (which will be used to download an iso copy of arch) by running the following command from the command line
choco install qbittorrent(recommended to run the command line as an adm