NTFS FSCK is a massive win!

“from the ripgrep example mentioned above: for an incremental rebuild, linking is reduced 7x, resulting in a 40% reduction in end-to-end compilation times. For a from-scratch debug build, it is a 20% improvement.”

Don’t install rEFInd from the USB stick. Use the stick to install Arch, remove the stick and boot to Arch, then install rEFInd. Took me many tries to figure this out.