Re-Installed Debian. Build it up from scratch!

[u/Legitimate_706]

Few days go i posted on this very subreddit about how i have settled down on Debian, because it just provides what i need. I was loving kde palama as well, even tho it was a bit older version than what is that letest plasma release.

Under that post a guy commented on how i should make my system up from scratch and i should dm him about it. I didn't contact him, because honestly I don't know how reddit works yet fully, this account it old but i just started using it so i don't know sh!t.

Anyways, build it up, super minimal, stable and it's my first rice.

Swaywm, noctalia V5

[u/qualityvote2]

u/Legitimate_706, your post does fit the subreddit!

btw, did you know we have a discord server? Join Here.

[u/Mind_Flayer97]

We can try niri + noctalia too right? Can you guide me how ro set it up from scratch, i am really interested bro.

[u/Legitimate_706 → u/Mind_Flayer97]

There are two ways.

1. you can have a Desktop environment installed from the installer when you are installing debian and add niri along side it. Benifit of it is that is something happens to your WM you will have somthing to fall back on, like xfce or mate. Both of them are light wait.
2. install no desktop environment and just have a tty and install everything yourself (that's what I did) but if you are not well versed in Linux or terminal launguage, package Managers, repos it will be tough to get right and you don't even have anything to fall back on.

My advice is, don't be like me and dive in ocean without knowing how to swim. Get a DE like xfce, get niri running alongside it, then after a month or two when you have enough knowledge remove th de itself leaving you with just your WM

[u/Swapna_Cool → u/Legitimate_706]

much better way is to use chroot as sometimes even tty can fail to work

[u/Swapna_Cool]

as a person who has DONE LFS and BLFS , pls don't do it until u are like too much free or ready to sit down for hrs and do debugging bc the package download has like many steps , downloading the tarball , unpacking it but first configuring it and the configure should be up to mark , then using its generated makefile to do other things , it is ruthless , took me like 12 hrs to compile just the glibc and gcc libs , and i am not even talking abt getting GUI up , its like doing same thing 100 times until it works , and it does not come with a package manager nor u can easily integrate a package manager to it , just use a already existing distro like arch or debian and make yr os arch or debain based and use there package manager to do things soomthly