Arch or derivatives (Manjaro, EndeavourOS) might be up your alley. They may not provide a ton of CLI stuff right out of the gate but there's lots of funky stuff in the AUR. As far as install goes it's not as difficult as memes portray and there are scripts that make it simple.
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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!
I am running Debian 12 on another machine.
Maybe Endeavor? It's easier to install than plain Arch, and you'll have access to pacman's repositories. If that's not enough you also have access to the AUR, which is... well... the AUR.
Also doesn't Endeavor go with something besides systems?
Systemd? No it looks like Endeavor uses systemd. Since Arch uses systemd, it would be a pain in the arse for them to switch it out, I guess
Yeah, systemd can root itself pretty deeply, it is just its nature. I am only a little against systemd. I run Debian 12 and it uses systemd.
Is MX or antiX in the running?
I believe any Linux can be "CLI Linux" as Linux is designed CLI first. Do you have an end goal? You can either not install a desktop or just stop and disable your display manager
The purpose I have in mind for the system will be a place to code, C, python, and some BASIC if I can find a nice CLI one. I have installed MX linux, and will probably keep the window manager as installed but just use a lot of terminal emulators.
Sounds like a decent setup. Good luck
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.
Alma being red hat will support pretty much everything. You would still need to install it with yum.