I will call it Nostro

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Hi All,

A few weeks back I played around with Linux from Scratch on a test machine. Just to learn a few things. Then I had to ummm, I guess itch the scratch?

I decided to try going all in and see if I could possibly get to a usable, daily driver level setup. I am typing from that now and I have every capability I need and it’s working great (I haven’t configured pipewire yet and it will likely be a pain but outside of that).

I started with LFS / BLFS, but diverged into getting Xlibre setup instead of Xorg, which was successful. I think the only thing I haven’t compiled, installed, and configured are a few apps that will just a lot of headache (just Betterbird, Obsidian, and a password manager). Installing Flatpak from source was…tricky.

Running Qtile, my NAS connectivity works, everything.

I didn’t start this for any other reason than to see if I could, and I didn’t think I could even get close. With the LFS guidance and a lot of Claude time here I am.

I am not a developer or distro builder so even after 30 years on Linux I learned a TON.

Now, I should probably see a shrink since I was willing to go through all of this :slight_smile:

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Your shrink runs WIN 11 and will not be sympathetic.

Build Nostro headless….and some will come :slight_smile: .

Still though, seriously, that has got to feel good.

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Write a blog about your experience in setting up a Linux system using LFS. What were the pain points, how you solved them and so on.
What do you do for updates? i.e. how do you plan on getting the latest kernels, security patches, DE, etc? What are using for DE? KDE, GNOME, MATE or something else?