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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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[–] Secret300@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NixOS! I can't for the life of me figure this shit out. It just won't click for me but I get the advantages so I wanna use it so bad

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I completely agree with this, I want to use it so badly but I think the documentation and other video tutorials aren't explaining it in a way that clicks for me, maybe?

[–] zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

check out the matrix room https://matrix.to/#/#nix:nixos.org. a lot of really smart and helpful people in there.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh, I'm bookmarking it! I'll check it out later!