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! ↩︎

  • doodoo_wizard@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    You shouldn’t do either.

    You’re setting up a server and a gaming computer. Arch is about as out in the weeds as I would go to accomplish those goals. Both applications are focused on stability and reliability and compiling from source for lfs has a bunch of hidden gotchas that make doing anything a hassle. Not compiling from source also ends up causing you a pile of heartache when the binary you get doesn’t include support for a library you’re using or the version is incompatible or any number of other screw ups that can happen.

    If you have a spare computer and just wanna see if you can do it or learn how it works then lfs is the way to go but if you actually want to provide some service or game then don’t switch.