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Gentoo or LFS? (programming.dev)

I have been using Arch for five years and I think I would like to call myself at least a progressive beginner when it comes to Linux, computers and networking, to be humble. 🤣

I would like to "move on" to Gentoo or LFS to force myself to learn more^[This was my main incentive for switching to Arch a long time ago, and it worked!]. Please share your pros and cons for switching to any one of these approaches.

Use case: a gaming rig (using nvidia's proprietary drivers and an AMD CPU) on one system and a server on a separate system.

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[-] Lydia_K@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I agree with everyone here, if you want learn stuff than LFS is amazing, I encourage everyone to go through it at least once. But it's not a daily driver, if you want a daily driver stick go with Gentoo or stick with Arch.

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Go through LFS, but just read it, imagine packages being compiled.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

and if you have a potato pc, read s-l-o-w-e-r

[-] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I agree. Also to add to this if your someone to casually learn things and use it at the same time Gentoo is a great step up from arch.

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