{"id":229399,"date":"2026-03-30T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/archinstall-4-0-released-for-improved-arch-linux-installer-using-textual-ui\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:25:09","slug":"archinstall-4-0-released-for-improved-arch-linux-installer-using-textual-ui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/archinstall-4-0-released-for-improved-arch-linux-installer-using-textual-ui\/","title":{"rendered":"Archinstall 4.0 Released For Improved Arch Linux Installer Using Textual UI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Archinstall-4.0-Released\">Archinstall 4.0 Released For Improved Arch Linux Installer Using Textual UI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Archinstall-4.0-Released\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Archinstall-4.0-Released<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-30 18:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archinstall 4.0 is out today and just in time for the April 1 monthly refresh to the Arch Linux installer. With Archinstall 4.0, this Arch Linux OS installer is now using the Textual TUI library rather than the Curses library.<\/p>\n<p>Archinstall 4.0 is now using Textual rather than Curses to provide a more modern text-based user interface. THe developers feel this provides a better looking terminal-based installer for Arch Linux rather than the mature curses library.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=archinstall_4\" alt=\"Archinstall 4.0 UI\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I would say it does indeed look more modern and nicer than their former UI:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2024&#038;image=archinstall_3_1_med\" alt=\"Old Archinstall UI\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Archinstall 4.0 also brings updated translations, instructions for booting Arch ISO in a VM, enabling GRUB UKI menu entries, and a lot of other code refactoring and improvements.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the shiny new Archinstall 4.0 release via GitHub<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Archinstall-4.0-Released\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archinstall 4.0 Released For Improved Arch Linux Installer Using Textual UI https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Archinstall-4.0-Released Publish Date: 2026-03-30&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=archinstall_4","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71],"class_list":["post-229399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229401,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229399\/revisions\/229401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}