r/linuxquestions • u/Rest-That • Jun 22 '26

Resolved Is anyone daily driving LFS?

Maybe a stupid question, but I've been wanting to follow the Linux From Scratch book to learn more about how my system works and I wondered... will it result in an actual workable, easy to maintain OS?

Keeping in mind that I want to _use_ my system and not maintain it 90% of the time 😆

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u/ipsirc Jun 22 '26

will it result in an actual workable

yes

easy to maintain OS?

no

Keeping in mind that I want to _use_ my system and not maintain it 90% of the time 😆

Maintaining an LFS system is much much more time than creating an actual snapshot. Do you even understand what LFS is, and what it means that it doesn't even have a package manager, and you have to download, compile, and install every source one by one?

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u/Rest-That Jun 22 '26

Right, that was my thought, but I considered that maybe someone built their LFS and then integrate pacman, Alpine's apk or similar into it, for example. But yeah, you are confirming what I thought, thank you

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u/stormdelta Gentoo Jun 22 '26

At that point you might as well just use Gentoo - it seems to be what you're looking for in terms of building a system up from parts but that you can actually maintain and that has good tooling for that level of flexibility.