I’ve installed arch Linux and liked it, but lfs and Gentoo would be too time consuming compiling everything and not doing anything during and after install. Are there any distros like arch that don’t have me compiling everything?
I’ve installed arch Linux and liked it, but lfs and Gentoo would be too time consuming compiling everything and not doing anything during and after install. Are there any distros like arch that don’t have me compiling everything?
What do you mean by “advanced”?
I’ve been using Linux on-and-off since before kernel version 1.0, and I use a distro (Pop!_OS) with a reputation for being newbie-friendly and just working out-of-the-box.
I’m originally a FreeBSD guy since 1998, but eventually migrated to linux some time around 2008. I’ve been through many distros, liked most of them (especially Gentoo, as its package syatem is similar to that of FreeBSD), but my main desktop OS today is Mint.
Advanced like arch where you have to configure everything from scratch.
Ah. By “advanced” you mean “stone knives and bearskins”. Got it.
When I say “advanced” I mean more like “taking advantage of lots of good work that others have already done.”
… “and actually get something useful (advanced or not) done with Linux instead of wasting time tweaking animated windows transitions and bragging about how many distros you hopped last week”
I don’t like that analogy because the CLI tools offer more power and features in configuring your system than the GUI does. GUI never offers the full range of options. Designing GUIs takes a lot of time, which leads to skipping features. No GUI installer can offer what you can do “by hand” in the console during setup, for example. E.g. the partitioning and filesystem stuff is always quite limited in GUI-based setups. GUI and CLI complement each other and every1 should learn a bit of CLI as well
All distros have a no gui install you mean that ?