Minimalist and Linux noob, but also a masochist so I installed Arch.
Minimalist and Linux noob, but also a masochist so I installed Arch.
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Nah, Arch is just hunting deep.
Gentoo is masochism.
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LFS is torture then
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Thanks for reminding that part of my brain to bully the other parts into doing LFS.
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"Minimalist"
installs KDE plasma
We have different definitions of minimalist
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I probably would have gone with Xfce since this is mostly acting as a server but this was also my first real experiment to see if I could replace a Windows desktop with Linux so I wanted some more functionality in that regard.
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You should look into window managers such as dwl if you want a truly minimalist experience.
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Plasma used to be bloated, but now is very similar to XFCE in terms of resources, and if you don't use Akonadi or Baloo, you get something even more minimal.
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Laughing in tty ...
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Until now the easiest experience for me I actually had was Arch. You have to do everything yourself but i found it way easier to fix things in Arch than in any other distro I used.
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Somewhere I read that it didn't have an installer which turned me off for a while, and then I realized that you just need to "archinstall" from the live ISO and I was off and running in minutes.
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Wish I had this information last night. Would have saved me like 3 hours.
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