i did that once… watched a video of some guy installing it, wrote down every single command, did it myself, it worked! then the clock system broke and i tried to fix it, couldn’t do it because dumb, and reinstalled it. exact same commands as before, but it didn’t work, no clue why

then i did the same with some other youtube video, until i just decided to use an arch based distro with an installer

now i just see people talking about archinstall and i’m like… i could’ve done it with one command? why did nobody tell me??? or did i just ignore everyone who told me? am i stupid???

and from what we’ve gathered about your case, it’s terminal

any arch based distro:

(and most linux distros in general)