Spend three days downloading and trying it distros
Pick arch
Sudo pacman install tmux, htop, {emacs, vim, nvim depending on your alignment}
Get your tmux and editor configs just right
Get into an argument on the “Discussion” section of Arch Wiki about your tmux hot keys
Share your htop screenshots on social media (and by social media I mean old reddit Lemmy and your IRC group with the 1 other IRC user who hasn’t left yet)
no, no, no its too easy, Wheres the terminals? and the long compile time.
(this post was written partially from and intel compute stick running gentoo, which started compiling 7hours ago and still is)
mmmm tasty 2GB of ram
Set
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-a"in make.conf and never bother writing --ask againI will half to do that thanks for the tip!!
You can shorten this list of flags to -DuN. For comedic effect you can run
emerge -DuN -DuN -DuuuN @worldold redditLemmy and your IRC group with the 1 other IRC user who hasn’t left yet)