Most minimal distro?
currently using debian
wanna switch to something for a while
im a sucklesss nerd
Most minimal distro? currently using debian. wanna switch to something for a while. im a sucklesss nerd
Most minimal distro?
currently using debian
wanna switch to something for a while
im a sucklesss nerd
Void/Arch + dwm
i hate arch & void
thinking of alpine
if you come from debian you should consider Rocky, an upstream from RHEL. it is CentOS but not rolling release
use endeavoros to avoid the annoying/unnecessary arch install
>minimal
select "online installation"
deselect all options but network
>Arch
>minimal
Pick one.
Devuan if you want to stay on a Debian base.
Also, Slackware can be extremely minimal and it's one of the most comfy distros I've ever used. Use KISS Linux or Crux if you want to go all out on minimalism.
How can I get slackware extremely minimal?
i wanna know too.
Uncheck everything you don't want during the installation process. Install nothing but the absolute base system and your prefered Window Manager. This makes things more complicated in the long run, since Slackware has no dependency resolution by default. That's why vanilla Slackware seems so huge. It isn't really, but if you want true minimalism, you have to go that route. But have fun hunting down dependencies if you go minimal.
After Slackware installed correctly switch from Slackwares huge kernel to either a generic, or your own minimal kernel. You probably want to compile your own.
Now you have a minimal Slackware installation and also a system that is extremely annoying to use.
Btw, you can add automatic dependency resolution to Slackware, but that's not very minimal and against the KISS principle.
Imagine using Debian, but without it's huge ass repository and with apt ripped out, you only have dpkg. That's Slackware.
But I guess you could solve some of the dependencies issues w adding Nix package manager to slackware?
You could do this. You could also use slapt-get or Slackbuilds with a helper.
>be me
>turn on pc
>99% of the time is spent in a browser
turns out in reality all i want is something that doesn't want to be updated everyday, or could break when updated
debian
yaar a moron tho
The opus dei was one of the biggest and most powerful cult in spain for a very long time, if you wanted to be rich and powerful you entered there and they gave you work and all that shit.
It's actually bad enough that they taught us in catholic school religion class about "problematic cult fringes". I can't remember any of it though, too busy playing on my phone or something.
Void
Distro so minimal the maintainer off'ed himself and a BLM troony took over
GNU Guix System.
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Reduced-Binary-Seed-Bootstrap.html
Alpine, puppy Linux ... Just Google distros that run from RAM by default.
Isn't there a "suckless" distro? KISS Linux or something like that.
Or just use TinyCoreLinux.
Plan9
Lfs
Void or Guix, probably. But why not stay on Debian? It's a great distro.
im bored & missing alpine
>alpine
Guess you have your answer then. Alpine is pretty minimal.
not op but systemd botnet.
Oh well, I like systemd but if you don't then I think both Void and Guix use other, simpler inits.
I like systemd
yea? you like having your dns queries sent to google? you like giving all these botnets your data? why not just go back to windows, they've got ads in the start menu, you'll probably like that too.
It has to be sent somewhere to resolve domain names anyway, it's either gonna be Google or some other company. I use my ISP's DNS for speed but I don't think it matters much.
>I like systemd
>yea? you like having your dns queries sent to google? you like giving all these botnets your data? why not just go back to windows, they've got ads in the start menu, you'll probably like that too.
I like where the you choose to completely ignore the multiple warnings for distro maintainers and the completely transparent nature of using Google for NTP
I like the part where you choose to* I had a stroke lol
Adjacent question: which pre-loaded Debian DE is best? I've always used Xfce since it just werks, but I recently tried PopOS and really like the tiling functionality available there. I hate the GNOMEshit and other bloat so I want to go back to base Debian but would like to hold on to some of that functionality. Any suggestions?
If you want tiling just use plain old debian and install a tiling wm like i3, bspwm, awesomewm, etc.
There's a frickton, you can get most to work with xfce too.
If you want a setup that's minimalist but also appropriate for heavy customization, I highly recommend doing a minimal Debian install and then setting up i3. It's a window manager that's fast and doesn't have unnecessary bloat like animations, but it also has quite a lot of features and you can configure it with a simple config file instead of learning Haskell/Lisp or using shell scripts for everything. It also has the advantage that there's a mostly-compatible Wayland clone so you'll be able to switch easily if you ever want to.
However you'll need some admin knowledge to set this up, for example you should know what is .xsession, a notification daemon, a login manager, and an environment variable.
For extra hardcore, you can start managing your OS with Puppet to have all your configs in one place and be able to easily apply them after reinstalls or on other computers/VMs.
Switching to clear linux this week
What am I up for?
>Most minimal distro?
LFS
alpine + mcwm
but debian is minimal enough, just use whatever works