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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] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Have you at least tried to install Gentoo? Everyone has to think they can, and fail, at least once in their lives.

[–] JonnyJest 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This comment feels like an XKCD quote.

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