Arch users will never compare against the gods that use Gentoo...
But even the Gentoo gods will never compare against the madness of the Lovecraftian Ancient Ones that use LFS.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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don't say their name so nonchalantly, they are always listening in the shadows
Do chip bringup.
Come at me bro, there can be only one.
Ran gentoo for a decade back in the 2000s, was awesome, then some idiots started breaking everything on a daily basis.
Go back every now and then, builds are SOOO much faster with modern cpus, but there's also no point.
Gentoo is like a fast car on a rail track, you're not actually going anywhere. Arch was OK, but another moron kept breaking expat (pacman needed expat btw). Always hated redhat and ubuntu turned to the dark side.
Some crazy single guys age and stop living so wild, I feel like that's me and distros, a nice cup of debian with a ton of lxcs and vms to bang whenever I'm horny.
Check that, I'm in a thruple with debian and freebsd.
I love Arch and keep it on an old i3 laptop that I use despite having a Core i7 laptop. But for my actual daily desktop computer I use Pop. I don't like being in the middle of some big project and then realizing I need to stop and spend an hour installing some missing package to continue with my project. Pop simplifies all of that, even though it doesn't provide the same sense of accomplishment and old-school computing that I get by using Arch.
Love myself some NixOS. All the customizability with none of the breakage. Pretty stable, very reproducible.
I was using Gentoo for some years, and I have to say I do not regret switching to Arch.
That said, power to those chosen or damned to wield Gentoo in the eternal war of kernels. They are the fabric of reality, interstellar light and darkness, they are the reason we, common folks, can live peacefully with precompiled packages, not knowing the pains of building everything from sources.
Many years ago I ran Gentoo as well. Switching to Arch was a considerable upgrade. I admit I've been running Ubuntu since Lucid (aside a brief stint of Fedora). It's nice that things mostly just work. It allows me to focus on life and not wifi drivers. Man, that sounds like such a cop out.
Anyhow, there's part of me that would love to play with those cosmic distros again some day.
Don't you have some compiling to wait for?
As a former long-time Gentoo user, I use Arch 😉
I'm OOTL. What's the icon on the right?
Gentoo. It's a distro based around compiling most packages on your machine either for hardware compatability or performance.
Gentoo is just arch with extra steps
What's the appeal of purposely using a user unfriendly system? I'm a Linux beginner and I use easy to use distros. Just curious as to why torture yourself?
I wouldn’t say they are user unfriendly, just not fit for beginners. There are definite advantages to those distros for advanced users, as they offer way more customisation than beginner friendly distros.
Installing an OS by hand and compiling the packages you need on top of a bare bones system is a great learning experience. It also gives you the most flexibility, for better and worse.
its only joking
Often its to learn about how a linux system works under the hood, also Gentoo can theoreticly have a small performance boost (tho on modern hardware its extremly small).
I used to use void, was a great distro, using Fedora now though
If I could install the damn thing, I WOULD run Gentoo. Furthest I got was install the base system. I was never able to install a DE. 😂
I don't get arch,but I have a life and much prefure ubuntu over Amy linux distro
I smell a little bitch here…
what do you mean by "i have a life" ?
It's as shrimple as that
i have a big problem with that, because i don't get how life is better for not using any diy distro ?
Bruh, I have things like work life and family, again arch is arch and I have a life
Gentoo ricer reporting in.
Ran a stage 1 Gentoo build whilst at uni back in the early 00's. Man building that on my Athlon took an absolute age - and there was no easy way for me to read docs whilst I was putting it together.
Still, ran Gnome DE and did my dissertation on it.