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    submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    edit: for anyone curious, the problem was Xorg wasnt loading or something (stuck on systemd 'graphical interface target reached' with no graphical interface). because of a typo in a config file.

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    [โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    In that case I would like to recommend you install Arch at least once. Not to actually use in production, but it made a lot of things click for me that help me with server stuff too. Just follow along with the install guide on the wiki inside of a VM.

    If you really want to know what applications are essential I'd install a window manager and not just install the gnome package. Though even just installing your favourite DE will work fine.

    I've heard other people recommend Gentoo and Linux from scratch as well for this purpose since they go even deeper, but that may be too much to start off with and I haven't done that myself

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Thank you very much for this suggestion. i will spin up a vm on virtualbox asap to check this out. :)