I’ve installed arch Linux and liked it, but lfs and Gentoo would be too time consuming compiling everything and not doing anything during and after install. Are there any distros like arch that don’t have me compiling everything?
I’ve installed arch Linux and liked it, but lfs and Gentoo would be too time consuming compiling everything and not doing anything during and after install. Are there any distros like arch that don’t have me compiling everything?
Assuming your goal is to gain knowledge about operating systems
Try arch but without kde, gnome, xfce, lxqt… make your own DE, based on a WM of your choice. That way you’ll gain lods of knowledge about how an OS interacts with the user and which applications do what.
After that, you would have to go for LFS or Tannenbaums Modern Operating Systems
I’m pretty sure that runs way opposite to OP’s stated goal of “don’t have me compiling everything”
Not on Arch it doesn’t. Almost all window managers have a package somewhere. There will be a lot of configuring, but no compiling.