I'm thinking of writing a shell script (or a series of shell scripts that chainload themselves) that auto-partitions and installs Arch with LVM with RAID on whatever free space you indicate to it, sets up GRUB and my custom config of it, sets up a system to detect my location on the fly and automatically adjust the date and time (without pinging Google) and dynamically using red light at night so it feels better on my eyes, sets up my Emacs config, sets up the home partition backup system I wrote, sets up dwm and st and my configs of them (and a system to manage them), sets up hotkeys for controlling backlight and volume (among other things), sets up the system I wrote for managing my rice themes, sets up all my dotfiles, sets up wine and QEMU+KVM (this would be optional though, but if I chose to not set it up, it would install a command which did automatically did it if I ever wanted to anyway), sets up all the fonts I use, downloads my personal files, and installs all my packages. Upon executing it, it'd prompt me for what password I want for root, what password and name I want for my user, and what password I want for the encrypted disk.
The point is. I think it'll take about 5 thousand lines of shell script, but I'm absolutely retarded with estimating metrics like that.. Maybe I could get it down to a few hundred lines if, for everything after installation, I just establish a private git repository with everything already done and it just git clones it onto my home partition.
I'm in college though. It takes ages and ages for me to set up everything after installing a distro (be it whatever distro). So it'll save me many, many hours on the long run. And I just chose Arch because I wanted it to be a binary distro that was rolling release, had plenty of packages and drivers (including non-free ones), a big "community" and help available online, and didn't have any installer at all (so I could script its installation). So I think Arch is pretty much the only distribution that exists that fits my incredibly specific needs.
James Gray
install gentoo
Ethan Powell
It is not a binary distro, so it's out of the window right off the gate.
Levi Johnson
For the record: I'm not a virgin neckbeard. I have a girlfriend and social life. It'll probably take me like a year or a year and a half to write.
Austin Diaz
that sounds like an autistic alternative to using something like LARBS and nextcloud. If that takes you anywhere close to 5 thousands lines you're complete garbage at shell scripting. If you're even thinking of not using git for something like that you probably have brain damage.
Adam Ortiz
I wasn't thinking of echoing all the dotfiles line by line or some retarded shit like that, I was thinking of another methods for downloading my home partition that would however be more lines-of-code intensive. I guess I'll use git. >If that takes you anywhere close to 5 thousand lines you're complete garbage As I said, I'm absolutely retarded at estimating how many units of x will y take. >that sounds like an autistic alternative to using something like LARBS I don't want to just manually install Arch and then manually install Luke's shitty rice, though. I want to pass a command and have the system and my configs install themselves. And didn't LARBS stem from autism similar to mine, anyway?
Julian Parker
>And didn't LARBS stem from autism similar to mine, anyway? Yeah but there's nothing autistic about taking advantage of someone's else's autism. You don't have to use Luke's rice but if you create a fork of his stuff it would save you work and you'd be able to see how he did it.. You could combine stuff from his dwm void set up and his arch set up to get what you want much faster.
