Mastodawn

I installed #CachyOS and it, like magic, solved my wifi issue. I am so fucking confused.

This is part of my urge to do a #LFS build.

When something goes wrong and the first like 5 troubleshooting steps don't help or I don't know how to use them properly I understand that is because I do not fundamentally understand how Linux works.

I think doing LFS would front load a lot of work for me but after it I will understand why a problem occurred.

To be clear I enjoy daily driving linux 80% of the time. The 20% that frustrates me is a worthwhile trade off in my eyes

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cid_terron 2d ago

@geometryincarnate LFS is great until it isn't.... Did it 3 times already - but it really needs a lot of time.
I am using Gentoo - For me it's the middle ground between - everything by myself and keeping my sanity....
-> If you go LFS, I strongly suggest to still use a package manager.

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geometryincarnate 2d ago

@cid_terron
Gentoo or KISS or some other metadistro could be another way.

Definitely a barrier to LFS for me is the time sink of compiling packages. I thought gentoo's portage also took ages because it compiled from source instead of using binaries??

My main goal with doing a LFS build is more so to understand things so when things break I know where to look.

Or if I wanna build a more custom distro I have gone through the deep end and know how deep I want to go in the future.

Maybe a manual arch install would be a good gateway?? I'm not sure. But thank you for your input!