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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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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What do you mean by "advanced"?

I've been using Linux on-and-off since before kernel version 1.0, and I use a distro (Pop!_OS) with a reputation for being newbie-friendly and just working out-of-the-box.

[–] wtry@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Dotdev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

All distros have a no gui install you mean that ?

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