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LFS has been on my todo list for like a decade, I really need to plan a weekend and just do it




I did it once, about twelve years ago, just to prove to myself that I could.

It was kind of fun, but I have absolutely no desire to do it again. I tried running it as my "full time" distro but what I ended up with was something extremely fragile and decidedly not fun for me to use.

Nowadays I run a NixOS Minimal install, which is about the level of operating system that I like to work in.


I think it's a month thing rather than a weekend thing, no?

Depends on your CPU (due to all the compiling), and if you plan on only doing the base OS or the extended plans too.

You and me both!



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