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I tried Gentoo recently and I really liked it when I finally figured everything out. I wanted the latest packages similar to arch, but I was basically spending at least an hour every time I started my computer updating. I still really like Gentoo, but it just isn’t for me right now. I appreciate what it taught me about Linux though
What did Gentoo teach you about Linux?
I main it (and am never switching again btw), but I learned absolutely nothing new. Packages build themselves, and everything works.
I was hoping to learn new things about compiling from source, but I guess I will have to make ebuilds for that.
Compiling dependencies for an hour or so every time I wanted to install something also got a bit old.
Lolll. This is me exactly.
It took me way too long to realize I wasn’t looking at a mummified corpse and Gandalf.
I used Gentoo for 3y. in hindsight I wasted so many CPU cycles just because I thought --march=native would make things faster.
nope.
you know what made things faster? switching to arch 😂
When CPUs were a lot slower you could genuinely get noticeable performance improvements by compiling packages yourself, but nowadays the overhead from running pre-compiled binaries is negligible.
Hell, even Gentoo optionally offers binary packages now.
Yes, I tried it around 2002/2003, back when the recommended way was from stage1. I think I had a P4 with HT. It was noticeably faster than redhat or mandrake (yes, I was distro hopping a lot). Emerge gnome-mono was a night run. Openoffice about 24hrs.
Lots of wasted time but I did learn how to setup some things manually.
Most of the reason to build your own packages is a form of runtime assurance - to know what your computer is running is 100% what you intend.
At least as a guix user that’s what I tell myself.
Compiling your own packages only ensures that, well, you’re running packages that you compiled. This definitely does not mean that your computer is running what you intend at all.
Half the time I don’t know what my CPU is executing, and that’s code that I wrote myself.
This definitely does not mean that your computer is running what you intend at all.
This is true of all programming
I did jump onto Gentoo ship chasing performance, but stayed because of USE flags.
Back in the early 2010s, I had a friend told me that his computer crashed trying to compile all of Gentoo.
Now imagine the same meme but with Gentoo and LFS
I’ve been thinking about it …
I’m not even ready for Arch because I can’t make decisions for myself.
Try endeavoros, it’s an opinionated arch with a simple installer
I put Linux Mint on a thumb drive once a few months ago to try it. So, yeah, I’m pretty into Linux.
That’s easy, just pick btrfs, gnome, pipewire, systemd, gdm, grub, and add flatpak in your additional packages.
Every other configuration is wrong.
/s
ext4, sway, pipewire, systemd, just use the the standard vconsole, grub and use pacman/AUR/custom PKGBUILDs for everything
Newfangled bullshit! Choose ext2, twm, alsa, sysvinit, xinit, and compile additional software from source.
Only 3/7 correct. It’s almost like you wanted to be wrong 😄
I yearn for Fedora
That’s unironically why I like Manjaro 😅
CachyOS on my side. Lol. Decide for me. I’ll change it if I hate it. 🙏😂
NixOS is the better source-based distro. Everything can compile from source, but you can also use the binary cache if you don’t want to.
Nah, Fedora is better, because it has a nice looking logo in neofetch.
In my experience the only people who find the name Fedora fine are the ones who unironically wear trillbies
Well i didn’t even know any other meanings to that word than the distro itself and is fine with it
Pepperidge Farms remembers compiling apps via the grimoire spells in sorcerer Linux.
