I’m looking for a Debian based distro that has the same install process as arch. I hate bloated distros and haven’t been able to find anything yet. Anyone know of a distro like this?
While it looks like OP got it sorted out, all their comments suggest they’re running into complex issues that are solved by the “bloat” software they’re trying to avoid.
Feels like they’ll quickly proclaim “Linux doesn’t work” and go back to Windows.
Pro-tip OP: The 800mb of packages that get installed alongside your first KDE or Gnome software is not “bloat”, they’ll be common libraries you dodged installing when you gave yourself an X11 server with no DE
Dude are you joking? I don’t need a graphical file manager for example. That’s bloat. If not having a graphical file manager causes nvidia drivers to not work, there’s a major issue. I don’t want anything but a terminal and a browser.
Look into .xinitrc and startx. You can run a standalone window manager and you can use xbindkeys to define keyboard shortcuts to launch a terminal or other apps, and you can also bind keys to wmctrl actions or run autokey in the background for the more fancy window and workspace operations. (if the window manager doesn’t support them).
If you want a system tray, application menu and so on there are hybrid window managers like OpenBox that double as a super-lightweight DE.
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I’m looking for a Debian based distro
I hate bloated distros
So… Debian?
Debian server… maybe
It would be nice if it installed a bootloader, but bootloaders got left behind in 2022 when installing debian actually works for me
Maybe Bunsenlabs will do ? : https://www.bunsenlabs.org/installation.html
And you can install Debian with the net install iso https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ and then choose as minimal as you prefer.
https://minios.dev/ + ventoy
Your answer is in the official Debian installation guide:
D.3. Installing Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System
Thanks you, finally a non removed who doesn’t understand that arch isn’t installed through calamares or debian-install
Glad I could contribute something.
If you want more tips: Choose the channel that suites you best. If you like arch, you probably like rolling distros. You could skip the stable channel and go for testing or unstable and that’d provide you with an experience alike a rolling release model. That isn’t officially supported… Debian focuses on getting security patches into stable, not necessarily the other channels. That’s why stable is recommended. However, the other ones work great and Debian usually do a good job with keeping them well-maintained, too. I run testing on my laptop and I like it.
AntiX-Core is what you need. I found a ‘stable LTS and true minimalist system’ without dbus, elogin, and systemd. You can check the installation here from anticapitalista. Create this from VM, snapshot, and install on your device.
Debian. The basic install is very bare bones.
Just… Install arch?
software should work independent of any distro
and you should know how to use your package manager, if you can’t it should be the package manager’s issue: too complex
