diff --git a/archlabs-installer b/archlabs-installer
index 4794ace..739b424 100755
--- a/archlabs-installer
+++ b/archlabs-installer
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086,SC2046,SC2254
 
-VER=2.1.40
+VER=2.1.41
 
 # default values {
 
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ _vconsole="\nSelect the console keymap, the console is the tty shell you reach b
 _prep="\nThis is the installer main menu, once a step is complete you will return here.\n\nOn successful completion of a step the cursor will be advanced to the next step\nOn failure the cursor will be placed on the step required to advance (when possible).\n\nSteps beginning with an asterisk (*) are required.\n\nOnce you're happy with the choices and the required steps are complete, selecting the final step will begin the install."
 _device="\nSelect a device to use from the list below.\n\nDevices (/dev) are the available drives on the system. /sda, /sdb, /sdc ..."
 _mount="\nUse [Space] to toggle mount options from below, press [Enter] when done to confirm selection.\n\nNot selecting any and confirming will run an automatic mount."
-_warn="\nIMPORTANT: Choose carefully when editing, formatting, and mounting partitions or your DATA MAY BE LOST.\n\nTo mount a partition without formatting it, select 'skip' when prompted to choose a filesystem during the mounting stage.\nThis can only be used for partitions that already contain a filesystem and cannot be the root (/) partition, it needs to be formatted before install.\n"
+_warn="\nIMPORTANT: Choose carefully when editing, formatting, and mounting partitions or your DATA MAY BE LOST.\n\nTo mount a partition without formatting it, select 'skip' when prompted to choose a file system during the mounting stage.\nThis can only be used for partitions that already contain a file system and cannot be the root (/) partition, it needs to be formatted before install.\n"
 _part="\nFull device auto partitioning is available for beginners otherwise cfdisk is recommended.\n\n  - All systems will require a root partition (8G or greater).\n  - UEFI or BIOS using LUKS without LVM require a separate boot partition (100-512M)."
 _uefi="\nSelect the EFI boot partition (/boot), required for UEFI boot.\n\nIt's usually the first partition on the device, 100-512M, and will be formatted as vfat/fat32 if not already."
 _bios="\nDo you want to use a separate boot partition? (optional)\n\nIt's usually the first partition on the device, 100-512M, and will be formatted as ext3/4 if not already."
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ select_packages()
 		nmap "Utility for network discovery and security auditing" "$(ofn nmap "${USER_PKGS[*]}")" \
 		noto-fonts "Google Noto fonts" "$(ofn noto-fonts "${USER_PKGS[*]}")" \
 		noto-fonts-cjk "Google Noto CJK fonts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)" "$(ofn noto-fonts-cjk "${USER_PKGS[*]}")" \
-		ntfs-3g "NTFS filesystem driver and utilities" "$(ofn ntfs-3g "${USER_PKGS[*]}")" \
+		ntfs-3g "NTFS file system driver and utilities" "$(ofn ntfs-3g "${USER_PKGS[*]}")" \
 		obs-studio "Free opensource streaming/recording software" "$(ofn obs-studio "${USER_PKGS[*]}")" \
 		openshot "An open-source, non-linear video editor for Linux" "$(ofn openshot "${USER_PKGS[*]}")" \
 		opera "A Fast and secure, free of charge web browser from Opera Software" "$(ofn opera "${USER_PKGS[*]}")" \
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ part_format()
 	local delay="$3"
 	shift 3
 
-	msg "Format" "\nFormatting $(part_pretty "$part") as $fs\n" 0
+	msg "File System Format" "\nFormatting\n\npart: $(part_pretty "$part")\n\nfs: $fs\n" 0
 	mkfs.$fs ${FS_CMD_FLAGS[$fs]} "$part" > /dev/null 2> "$ERR"
 	errshow 0 "mkfs.$fs ${FS_CMD_FLAGS[$fs]} '$part' > /dev/null" || return 1
 	sleep "$delay"
@@ -1386,42 +1386,31 @@ select_filesystem()
 {
 	local part="$1"
 	local fs=''
-	local cur txt
+	local cur txt pt
+	pt="$(part_pretty "$part")"
 	cur="$(lsblk -lno FSTYPE "$part" 2> /dev/null)"
-	txt="\nSelect which filesystem to use for: $(part_pretty "$part")\n\nDefault:  ext4"
+	txt="\nSelect which file system to use\n\npart: $pt\n\nfs default:  ext4"
 
-	# bail early if the partition was created in part_auto()
-	[[ $cur && $part == "$AUTO_ROOT" ]] && return 0
+	if [[ $cur ]]; then
+		# bail early if the partition was created in part_auto()
+		[[ $part == "$AUTO_ROOT" ]] && return 0
+		[[ $part != "$ROOT" ]] && txt+="\nCurrent:  $cur"
+	fi
 
 	until [[ $fs ]]; do
-		if [[ $cur && $part != "$ROOT" ]]; then
-			dlg fs menu "Filesystem" "$txt\nCurrent:  $cur" \
-				skip - \
-				ext4 "The evolution of the most used Linux filesystem, successor to Ext3" \
-				ext3 "3rd extended file system, successor to Ext2" \
-				ext2 "2nd extended filesystem, unlike 3/4 it is not journaled and largely obsolete" \
-				vfat "A legacy file system which is simple and robust" \
-				ntfs "Windows NT file system" \
-				f2fs "Flash-friendly file system, intended for NAND-based flash memory" \
-				jfs "Journaled file system created by IBM" \
-				xfs "Journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics (SGI)" \
-				nilfs2 "A log-structured file system implementation for the Linux kernel" \
-				reiserfs "Journaled file system initially created by a team at Namesys led by Hans Reiser" || return 1
-		else
-			dlg fs menu "Filesystem" "$txt" \
-				ext4 "The evolution of the most used Linux filesystem, successor to Ext3" \
-				ext3 "3rd extended file system, successor to Ext2" \
-				ext2 "2nd extended filesystem, unlike 3/4 it is not journaled and largely obsolete" \
-				vfat "A legacy file system which is simple and robust" \
-				ntfs "Windows NT file system" \
-				f2fs "Flash-friendly file system, intended for NAND-based flash memory" \
-				jfs "Journaled file system created by IBM" \
-				xfs "Journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics (SGI)" \
-				nilfs2 "A log-structured file system implementation for the Linux kernel" \
-				reiserfs "Journaled file system initially created by a team at Namesys led by Hans Reiser" || return 1
-		fi
+		dlg fs menu "File System" "$txt" $([[ $cur && $part != "$ROOT" ]] && printf "skip -") \
+			ext4 "The evolution of the most used Linux file system, successor to Ext3" \
+			ext3 "Third extended file system, successor to Ext2" \
+			ext2 "Second extended file system, unlike 3/4 it is not journaled and obsolete" \
+			vfat "File allocation table, a legacy file system which is simple and robust" \
+			ntfs "NT file system, a journaling file system created by Microsoft" \
+			f2fs "Flash-friendly file system, intended for NAND-based flash memory" \
+			jfs "Journaled file system created by IBM and open-sourced in 1999" \
+			xfs "Journaled file system created by Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI)" \
+			nilfs2 "A log-structured file system implementation for the Linux kernel" \
+			reiserfs "Journaled file system created by a team at Namesys led by Hans Reiser" || return 1
 		[[ $fs == 'skip' ]] && return 0
-		yesno "Filesystem" "\nFormat $(part_pretty "$part") as $fs?\n" || fs=''
+		yesno "File System" "\nConfirm Format\n\npart: $pt\n\nfs: $fs\n" || fs=''
 	done
 	part_format "$part" "$fs" 0
 }
@@ -1457,7 +1446,12 @@ install_main()
 	chrun "hwclock --systohc --utc" || chrun "hwclock --systohc --utc --directisa"
 	install_user
 	install_login
+
+	# allow members of the wheel group to run commands as root
+	sed -i "s/# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/g" "$MNT/etc/sudoers"
+
 	chrun "chown -Rf $NEWUSER:users /home/$NEWUSER"
+
 	if [[ "$USER_CMD" ]]; then
 		chrun "$USER_CMD" 2> "$ERR" 2>&1
 		errshow 0 "chrun '$USER_CMD'"
@@ -1506,7 +1500,10 @@ install_base()
 		unset BG_PID
 	fi
 
-	if (( PACSTRAP )); then
+	mkdir -pv "$MNT/etc/default"
+	mkdir -pv "$MNT/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/"
+
+	if [[ $PACSTRAP == 1 ]]; then
 		cp -vf /etc/modprobe.d/* "$MNT/etc/modprobe.d/"
 		cp -vf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* "$MNT/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/"
 		# we have some customizations in /etc on the iso we want to preserve
@@ -1547,14 +1544,12 @@ install_base()
 	# allow members of the wheel group to run commands as root
 	sed -i "s/# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/g" "$MNT/etc/sudoers"
 
-	mkdir -pv "$MNT/etc/default"
 	echo "LANG=$LOCALE" > "$MNT/etc/locale.conf"
 	cp -fv "$MNT/etc/locale.conf" "$MNT/etc/default/locale"
 	sed -i "s/#en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/g; s/#${LOCALE}/${LOCALE}/g" "$MNT/etc/locale.gen"
 	chrun "locale-gen"
 	chrun "ln -svf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$ZONE/$SUBZ /etc/localtime"
 
-	mkdir -pv "$MNT/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
 	cat > "$MNT/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf" <<- EOF
 	# Use localectl(1) to instruct systemd-localed to update it.
 	Section "InputClass"
@@ -1965,7 +1960,7 @@ install_background()
 
 	(
 		install_mirrorlist "/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" > /tmp/bgout 2>&1
-		if (( PACSTRAP )); then
+		if [[ $PACSTRAP == 1 ]]; then
 			pacstrap /mnt >> /tmp/bgout 2>&1
 		else
 			rsync -avh /run/archiso/sfs/airootfs/ "$MNT/" >> /tmp/bgout 2>&1
@@ -1976,7 +1971,7 @@ install_background()
 		cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist "$MNT/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist"
 		al_repo "$MNT/etc/pacman.conf"
 
-		if (( PACSTRAP )); then
+		if [[ $PACSTRAP == 1 ]]; then
 			chrun "pacman -S ${ISO_PKGS[*]} $net $luks --noconfirm --needed" >> /tmp/bgout 2>&1
 		else
 			chrun "pacman -Syyu $net --noconfirm --needed" >> /tmp/bgout 2>&1
@@ -2228,7 +2223,7 @@ prerun_systemd-boot()
 	mkdir -pv "$MNT/boot/loader/entries"
 
 	cat > "$MNT/boot/loader/loader.conf" <<- EOF
-	default  $DIST
+	default  $DIST.conf
 	timeout  5
 	editor   no
 	EOF