I thought the “hardcorer” alternative to Arch was LFS
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alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
i used to be a windows guy. discovered arch linux and it’s not enough. i wanna do hardcore shit so i’m going kali
merci3@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Not if you are a 1337 H4XX0R like the baddass you’re answering to.
Damarus@feddit.org 2 hours ago
LFS is for memes. I guess Nix is a level up from Arch.
merci3@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Hmm, I personally place Nix at the same level as Arch, because I see both distros being hard to get into because of how different they do stuff when compared to the average OS.
Maybe the real level up is trying to run BSD on unsupported hardware?
Laser@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Arch is easier in my opinion, at least if you want to leverage the power NixOS can offer. A simple
/etc/nixos/configuration.nixmaybe not, but once you enter custom options / submodule territory and use stuff likelib.mapAttrs, I’d say NixOS is quite harder. Or just a more complexoverrideAttrs. But then again, Arch doesn’t have an equivalent to that…TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The real level up is bare-metal Emacs.
Shame this OS does not come with a solid text editor.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
i’m new to this shit (started arch yesterday) so i dunno
i use my macOS terminal all fucking day so i know my way around a linux interface, it’s more or less the same shit (macOS uses zsh and linux uses bash…the syntaxes are almost identical, if you know one, you know the other)
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You’re going to feel right at home with TempleOS.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
i’m autistic and schizophrenic
people seriously have compared me to the guy who made it (why tf can’t i remember his name)
merci3@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Nice to know you’re enjoying Linux :P
I think that later on in your adventure, you’ll notice that you don’t actually need a distro that’s hard to maintain in order to do the hardcore stuff.
Going back to more tame distros (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Solus) may actually suit you better, even for said tasks.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
what would you recommend for cybersecurity? i’m interested in a few things (shell scripting, web dev, nlp), but i’d also really liek to know how to stop hackers
x00z@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Kali is not for actual every day use.
You can install all of its included tools on whatever distro you want.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
gotcha! thank u, sir/ma’am/nb. which distro would you recommend?
Badabinski@kbin.earth 1 hour ago
Arch is a pretty good one if you want to control and tinker. I have personally found it to be very reliable over the years, and the AUR is exceptionally powerful (although you NEED to review your PKGBUILDs, there's nothing stopping someone from putting malware on the AUR again). The packaging format is so simple and easy that I actually build a few performance-critical packages locally so I can tweak compiler flags (gimmie that
-march native).Nix is cool and kinda crazy, but honestly? I'd hold off until you're comfortable with Arch. Same with Gentoo.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 44 minutes ago
i seriously am more of a tinkerer than anything else so i think i will stick with arch. thanks for the tip!
cole@lemdro.id 1 hour ago
distro barely matters beyond how you get the packages.
there’s a reason arch is popular, it can be whatever you want it to be.
tbh, it sounds like you don’t have a great understanding of Linux (not an attack!) so I would definitely stay away from Kali, and other distros like that.
stick with Arch if you’re confident you can maintain it, or if you want to have a system which you don’t have to poke at Fedora is a great option
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 42 minutes ago
Is it possible to create a shim to make keyboard shortcuts act like macOS? I don’t think I can live with ctrl+shift+c when command/super is right there.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Other hardcore options include Gentoo or just going Linux from scratch.