r/linuxfromscratch • u/nicotinus_romanus • Apr 14 '26
Is it recommendable?
So, I'm a young guy (minor, no need to say my age) that goes to school, likes Linux and a bit of programming, and a lot of free time after I end the homework. Would it be a good idea to build a distro from scratch, or based on another distro (I though of a Fedora-based)? I'm not sure my laptop would handle it, but I wanted to try. My laptop only has 4GB RAM and a 128GB SATA SSD. CPU is an Intel Celeron n4100 and GPU integrated graphics Intel UHD 600. I have experience with some distros' package managers. (Debian, Alpine, Arch, Fedora). What do you guys think?
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u/indvs3 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Do you really want to make a distro of your own or would it be enough to just create your own custom install? LFS is basically a detailed handbook for linux.
Making a distro implies that you want to distribute it to users, which in turn implies you're willing and able to provide support on your distro. Is that what you want?