Minimalist and Linux noob, but also a masochist so I installed Arch.

Polyester6435 , 9 months ago

“Minimalist” > installs KDE plasma

Fuck_u_spez_ OP , 9 months ago

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 , 9 months ago

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

Moshpirit , 9 months ago

Sure, expending hours learning shortcuts is way more minimalist than using plasma. Plasma used to be bloated, but now is very similar to XFCE in terms of resources, and if you don’t use akonady or baloo even more minimal.

Y2K38 , 9 months ago

Laughing in tty …

Moshpirit , 9 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.

ehrenschwan , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

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_ OP , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

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 , 8 months ago

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

Granixo , 9 months ago

Nah, Arch is just hunting deep.

Gentoo is masochism.

SaltyIceteaMaker , 9 months ago

LFS is torture then

Granixo , 9 months ago

https://feddit.cl/pictrs/image/fcf9a0bb-772e-43d8-8cae-f574608993b9.png

H2207 , 9 months ago

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