I've heard of partition alignment from this thread before, and if I recall you're supposed to start your first partition at 1MB or something. However, when I read the arch install wiki and try out the best-effort partitioning via archinstall, I'm getting conflicting results.

Here it says that partitioning should start at the 1MB mark:
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Format#Partition_alignment
Yet in pic related partitioning is starting at the 2MB mark. What gives?

Also the above links mentions that -each- partition should start at 1MB marks, so does that mean there should be 1MB of space between the boot partition and the root partition? Or should root start immediately after boot?