This is such a weird take for me, and it’s popular enough of a take that it makes it weirder.

Arch is, by default, a barebones distro. The whole point is you start from nothing with very few defaults and learn how to get everything up and running yourself.

Complaining that the way arch works sucks cos you don’t want to do that is bizarre.

Imagine complaining that Linux From Scratch sucks cos you have to do it from scratch.

Endeavor OS exists, it’s what Endeavor OS should be. You can just use it, no one will complain. The Arch folk might be less inclined to help with it, but that’s why there are Endeavor OS folks to talk to.

Of course, you can have that opinion. After all. linux is about having a choice.

I haven’t really shopped around in a while, I just use the gandi forwarding rather than hosting mail, so the changes haven’t hit me yet. I hear porkbun.com is pretty good. They don’t offer free email but they do have cheap email hosting and apparently the cheapest prices for registering a domain.

I did it a long time ago, I found it easiest to do it by dual booting. Install a more common distro, but setup the disks yourself so you have a chunk of space available at the end of the disk, then install LFS on to the space you left from inside your regular distro. It means you can just leave it at any break point without having to figure out where you were. You have a working distro to play on whilst things compile as well, which is nice. Then you can just add the LFS install to grub and boot into it whenever you want once it’s at that point.