I fell in love with ArchLinux the first time I stumbled upon it years ago. I was
always in a lookout for lightweight OS since I have a pendance of using low-spec gear
and I figured eventually, my AMD computer wouldn't be able to handle the newer versions
of Windows (which was the newly released Windows 10 at that time) so I either had to downgrade
to an older Win version (I was eyeing XP or 7 nocap) or full send into a NIX distro.
The problem I had with Arch was that the vanilla version doesn't do any hand holding.
I'm ok with that most of the time but my modus operandi personally has always been to strip
to the core (.....monkaHmmmm), so I would've liked a bare bones release of a variant of Arch
then strip off the "bloatware" till I know what programs are essential to run a computer.
Unfortunately, at that time though - the only variant available was Manjaro Linux and there's
alot of extra programs in their distro, no matter which version I looked at - they had a custom
installer before but that barely worked on my hardware so I couldn't utilize it. I kept an eye out
every couple of months just to see if there is going to be a distro that I will like.
Fast forward 2022 and ArcoLinux.....
While I was looking for a distro to put in my netbook, I was going to put a Windows OS in there but
I wanted to use it as a throwaway security centered machine, so I ended up distro hunting again.
I eventually settled for Fossapup but when I tried to install some security centered packages, they
were not available. Eventually I decided to look for an Arch distro again as the Arch challenge is still
resonating deeply in my heart (something akin to what any hardcore or soulslike gamer feels like when they
beat a boss or a challenge) and I know there is security centered packages built around Arch already so I
know the tools will be readily available.
We now entered ArcoLinux as they had a couple of different distros that focused on certain things. I ended
up using the ArcoLinuxS distro as it had WIFI and BLUETOOTH packages already and I wanted networking
way with the initial install. I would've went for the XD distro, which is barebones just terminal install but
no networking out of the box so that would've been a pain on my end.
My plan is that the laptop is the LIVE version and I will slowly upgrade it to have security focused tools
in hand. I will install Arco on a VM in my desktop and that will be my experimental build and whatever I like
in the experimental build, I will transfer to the LIVE build; eventually once I feel comfortable in the
environment, I will fresh install Arch and build an distro from scratch.
I'm going through this because I want to be familiar with Linux really well and if I were to do alot of
backend work, Linux is gonna be my second home so I might as well be familiar with alot of it's inner workings.
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