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For those of you who don't know, Linux From Scratch is a project that teaches you how to compile your own custom distro, with everything compiled from source code.

What was your experience like? Was it easier or harder than you expected? Do you run it as a daily driver or did you just do it for fun?

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s fun at first,

You answered your own question.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Being fun does not make (thing) a necessity let alone useful -- there are a lot of useless things that are fun.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Do you really need me to teach you that people do fun things as well as useful things?