My understanding is that Arch-related content can roughly be divided into three categories: one is the official and Chinese wiki, suitable for building a foundation; one is domestic mirrors and Chinese environment configuration, which solve the problem of whether it can be used conveniently; and the other is experience-based tutorials, suitable for continuing to improve the desktop, input method, drivers, and daily-use experience after installing the system.

This article organizes several links worth keeping for the long term.

1. Arch Linux Chinese Wiki: Installation Guide

If you are preparing to seriously install Arch once, this should be the first article to read.

Its greatest advantage is not that it is "step-by-step for beginners," but that the path is clear. Partitioning, mounting, the base system, bootloader, network, and users are all laid out along one line, making it suitable as a main reference. Many people start by looking for various third-party tutorials, and in the end they finish copying the commands, but instead have no clear idea why the system is installed this way or how to maintain it afterward.

For a system like Arch, the more solid your foundation is, the less trouble you will have later.

2. Arch Linux Chinese Wiki: General Recommendations

After installing the system, the real Arch only just begins.

This page is more like an entry point. It will not make decisions for you, but it will tell you where to look next. For example, package management, system maintenance, desktop environments, networking, fonts, and localization are not optional extras, but things you will sooner or later run into in daily use.

If the installation guide solves "how to install it," then this page solves "what to learn first after installation."

3. Arch Linux Mirror Usage Help

You can choose the mirror yourself; I am only mentioning one here.

4. Recommended Solutions for Chinese Users

If you only want to keep one page most closely related to the "domestic user experience," this one is well worth saving.

It is more like an index page for the domestic environment: mirrors, Chinese language support, input methods, common software, and some local usage habits can basically all be followed further from here. Many environments assumed by foreign tutorials are not actually fully convenient in China, and at times like that, content organized by the Chinese community can save a lot of time.

Especially if this is your first time using Arch for long-term daily use, a page like this will be far more stable than scattered forum posts.

5. pacman and System Maintenance

Many people think the difficulty of Arch lies in the installation, but that is not entirely true.

What really tends to break the system is often the maintenance afterward. How to install packages, how to update the system, and which operations should not be done—if you do not understand these things clearly from the start, running into problems later is almost inevitable.

So when it comes to documents related to pacman and system maintenance, I actually think they are more worth reading early than many "complete desktop beautification guides." You can set up a nice-looking desktop anytime, but if system maintenance goes wrong, fixing it will not be nearly as easy.

6. Shorin Arch Linux Guide

This is also very worth bookmarking, and it takes a different approach from the previous types of materials.

The previous content leans more toward standard documentation, while this Shorin guide is more like a collection of experience on "going from installed to actually pleasant to use." Installation, configuration, customization, gaming, and virtualization are all topics that many Arch users will gradually encounter later. It is suitable to read after the official installation guide. I do not recommend using it to completely replace the foundational documentation, but it is very suitable for looking things up as needed after the system is installed.

For users in China, this kind of material with obvious practical experience often comes closer to real daily-use scenarios.

The Reading Order I Recommend More

If this is your first time seriously tinkering with Arch, I suggest not mixing up the order.

First read the installation guide and honestly get the system installed; then read the mirror and Chinese-user-related pages to sort out networking, Chinese language support, and the basic environment; after that, fill in your understanding of pacman and system maintenance to grasp the most basic update logic; and finally go read experience-based guides like Shorin to gradually improve the desktop, drivers, input methods, and more personalized configurations.

If you go through it this way, the logic will be much smoother, and it will be less likely to turn into "able to copy commands, but unable to maintain the system."

Closing

For users in China, what is most worth keeping for the long term is usually not those aggressively titled "ultimate tutorials," but rather a few documents that can truly cover installation, maintenance, mirrors, localization, and daily-use experience. Build the foundation with the official and Chinese wiki, handle the environment with domestic mirrors and the Chinese community, and fill in the experience with practice-oriented guides—this is actually the steadiest path.