Read through it… strange.

That was exactly how I did it some years ago. After 4 or 5 times fixing the X-server after an update (thanks nVidia!) I switched over to Arch. Installed Arch following the Wiki for about 2 hours… failed and started the process of installation again (in about 1.5 hours :P) and succeeded. By failing and trying again I’ve learned a ton. My advise for less frustration: go with Team Red. In my experience AMD graphics cards are much more linux-friendly.

AURild of Greenmeadow (Weaponsmith, uncommon):

• roll a dice D6, 1-3 results in sword.bin 4-6 results in sword.git
• sword.bin gives 1 additional attack in your turn
• sword.git can be used after your second turn, but has damage +3
• everytime you visit Aurild: if you haven’t equipped “Tomb Wiki of Arch” get confused by oversupply (-1 wisdom), else gain 3 wisdom

Tomb “Wiki of Arch” (common):

• “Just read the wiki”: By reading the wiki you gain +2 wisdom
• “everything you need to know is in the wiki”: Merchants increase the price of armour if you misread the wiki
• “Installation Guide”: Gain 5 speed, reduce your weapon slots to 1, increase armour by 1

My guess: the mod is sittin there posting memes on his gentoo-machine and laughing his ass of, because someone’s taking his community serious.

Nice to hear that you have found your way to Linux. What helped me a lot to understand Linux and the command line better was trying to install Arch, following the instructions in the wiki, failing at the first attempt and trying again and finding the error.