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[+] 6 points 10 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Counterintuitively, something stops being magic the moment there is a guide for it.

    For example, I am a wizard because I installed linux on an old inspiron tower with no display output during boot menu, relying entirely on instinct and mysticism to navigate the nonexistent menu with precise timing.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Or they’re bored. I’ve done Linux From Scratch before. It’s fun. It’ll teach you a lot about building and maintaining a distro.

    Do it. Take a weekend, and indulge yourself.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    How long does it reasonably take? Just a weekend?

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It’s all subjective and based on your personal level of interest. From a technical standpoint the time needed is based on how fast your computer can compile everything, how fast you read and understand the instructions, and how much effort you want to put into it.

    So yeah, a weekend could be reasonable.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    When I last set up LFS it took a week, but I read everything. I was doing it to better understand how Linuxes work

    ...that was a full week, it would have taken much longer had I had other things to do

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