I have been using Arch for five years and I think I would like to call myself at least a progressive beginner when it comes to Linux, computers and networking, to be humble. 🤣

I would like to “move on” to Gentoo or LFS to force myself to learn more[1]. Please share your pros and cons for switching to any one of these approaches.

Use case: a gaming rig (using nvidia’s proprietary drivers and an AMD CPU) on one system and a server on a separate system.

  1. This was my main incentive for switching to Arch a long time ago, and it worked! ↩︎

  • aliceitc@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    41·
    9 hours ago

    I suggest LFS if you want to learn the complexity of creating a distro from scratch. (You might not succeed on the first try. I gave up multiple times before forcing myself to finish it)

    I never tried Gentoo so I can’t really say anything good or bad about it.

    My question is: what are you expecting to learn from this? you say “learn more” but what exactly do you want to learn? Because if it’s “becoming better at linux” you can definitely do it with just Arch.

    If you just want something “more difficult” to install, I guess you can do it.