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Minimalist and Linux noob, but also a masochist so I installed Arch. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml
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[–] Granixo@feddit.cl 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah, Arch is just hunting deep.

Gentoo is masochism.

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

LFS is torture then

[–] H2207@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Thanks for reminding that part of my brain to bully the other parts into doing LFS.

[–] Polyester6435@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

"Minimalist"

> installs KDE plasma

We have different definitions of minimalist

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] H2207@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You should look into window managers such as dwl if you want a truly minimalist experience.

[–] Moshpirit@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Y2K38@lemmy.one 2 points 11 months ago

Laughing in tty ...

[–] ehrenschwan@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] NiceHat@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Wish I had this information last night. Would have saved me like 3 hours.