Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlmod to Linux@lemmy.ml – 314 points –

I thought I'll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I'll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

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How do you get the flavor out of it?

You remove any installed desktop environment, so you only have a commandline. You also remove any command shell. Can't get any less flavoured than that.

You have to go a bit further and remove any package manager and customized utilities. Probably remove a bunch of scripts and aliases from the command environment as well.

Start with a minimalist distro that ships without any desktop environment, of which there are many.

Install Linux From Scratch (LFS). Then you can give it your own flavor instead of someone else's.

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