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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] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean? Arch doesn't have you "compiling everything". It's a mostly binary distribution. The Arch repositories are binary, and more than a few of the packages in the AUR are binary as well.

I'm also not following "not doing anything during and after install" - what do you mean by after install in that sentence?

I'd love to help, but I can't figure out what your issue is. If you're looking for something like Arch, but faster and easier to set up, try Endeavor - it's basically Arch with a graphical installer and some neat extra tools.

I'd also suggest looking in to Void, since you don't appear to be afraid of the command line. You'll find it similar in approach to Arch, but everything is binary packages; there's no compiling unless you grab dev tools and pull the source from Github or Codeberg or whatever yourself.

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

I’m also not following “not doing anything during and after install” - what do you mean by after install in that sentence?

I made the mistake of trying to pacman -S librewolf not realizing it was going to compile from source. An hour later (on my Ryzen 7 5800X) it wasn't finished, so I killed it and installed librewolf-bin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

librewolf is not an official arch package it is in AUR. So you couldn't have just typed pacman -S librewolf to compile it.

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

You're right, I used yay. I used pacman to illustrate the point.