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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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what are some advanced linux distros that don't have me compiling everything? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Advanced like arch where you have to configure everything from scratch.

[–] fubo 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

... "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"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

All distros have a no gui install you mean that ?