This will be for a physically small i5 laptop for various programming fun. The candidate linux should be easy to install, and provide a large selection of CLI programs.

  • barrett9h@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    I'm using Void for quite some time, and I'm enjoying it very much.

    https://voidlinux.org/

  • GrappleHat@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    There's a version of Debian whose desktop environment is just the CLI. (I learned the "fun way" at first boot whilest helping a friend install Linux on their machine). It was certainly a lightweight, fast, & easy installation, I'll say that! Lol!

  • ubinull@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    Well, NixOS is pretty easy to install using their graphical installer and it has one of the largest package repositories. It has basically everything you could need.