Quote from: ETFbitcoin on Today at 11:27:26 AM

Quote from: takuma sato on November 20, 2023, 02:10:03 AM

I've tried Mint on a live CD and it comes way too bloated for my taste, too many media related software that I don't need for this purpose. A basic text editor, a spreadsheet editor, and basic dependencies to compile Bitcoin Core as well as Tor should be it. Im either going to use Xubuntu or try the latest Debian release.

I just tried installing Linux Mint on VM and amount of the bloat isn't as bad i expected. But since it's too bloated, your option is limited to Debian or manually uninstall the bloat. And i expect Xubuntu has many bloat for you needs since the ISO alone has size 2.8GB.

Quote from: NotATether on Today at 08:06:31 AM

Quote from: takuma sato on November 20, 2023, 02:10:03 AM

I've tried Mint on a live CD and it comes way too bloated for my taste, too many media related software that I don't need for this purpose. A basic text editor, a spreadsheet editor, and basic dependencies to compile Bitcoin Core as well as Tor should be it. Im either going to use Xubuntu or try the latest Debian release. Seems pretty easy to install nowadays compared to back then. Does anyone here use that distro at all? It comes with a full disk encryption setting on the wizard.
I'll try automatic partition setting and just encrypt the whole thing. Im not sure if it encrypts the boot partition too, but I want it to encrypt for sure swap and home. Some people don't realize these may remain unencrypted and leak your data on there.

In that case, use Debian and then replace the default GNOME desktop with an XFCE desktop.

I don't recall Debian has default DE since you need to chose the DE either when choosing ISO or during installation. Is that no longer true?

The image that shows up here doesn't look like it has the desktop interfaces separated:

https://www.debian.org/

The download button leads to this file:

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso

This requires internet connection to install. Im assuming this contains all the different interfaces. Also im not sure if this will work with an nvidia GPU. Has anyone tried? it may give error since it has free firmware. In that case you may want to try this:

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Non-free Firmware

This Debian image build only includes Free Software where possible. However, many systems include hardware which depends on non-free firmware to function properly so this build also includes those firmware files for those cases. See the Debian Wiki non-free firmware page for more information.

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/

And when it comes to partitions, im just going to select it to automatically make whatever partitions are needed, will this encrypt the /home and /swap partitions?