You should really do it a few more times, wipe repeat reinstall, so you remember what you have to do to make it work. Been using Linux since 1998 and I’m never going back 👍🏻
Now you have a Linux install that is totally incompatible with everything if you not build EVERYTHING yourself! (and not even then it's compatible with some open source stuff)
Congrats! How far did you get? One time I was able to get a bootable and functional text-mode system. But then I realized the pain in the ass it would be to keep it updated (my goal was to use it as my daily OS) so I stopped there and installed Slackware (it was a long time ago), IIRC.
I was running Gentoo for a while, and it was a wonderful experience in which I learned a lot. After a while, I decided I wanted to develop software more and be a sysadmin less. So I switched to Fedora.
There are two parts of me.. one wants Linux experience to be as smooth as a any otb OS but then I have this nostalgic feeling where I figured out how the fuck to install Arc when I first got out of windows.
I've configured and compiled Kernels and many applications. Distributions save me so much time, and as you've demonstrated, these give me more time to hack network applications. Don't myself need to reinvent the distribution wheel, but it's great that there are people like you learning to do this.
Although both have some common concepts like building their own applications configs, Slack has the package manager while LFS does not. Each package is compiled from the source. I can't imagine any other use case apart from learning.
There are plenty of good distributions of LINUX that can be installed in a few minutes time, they all use the same basic core (kernel) just have a different user interface.
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I just don’t drink enough coffee nowadays…
Glad for you!
Now you have a Linux install that is totally incompatible with everything if you not build EVERYTHING yourself! (and not even then it's compatible with some open source stuff)
Hardcore Linux guys are like: wow, how did they install it so fast?
I was running Gentoo for a while, and it was a wonderful experience in which I learned a lot. After a while, I decided I wanted to develop software more and be a sysadmin less. So I switched to Fedora.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall