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Debian is a snail and its shell (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wish gentoo was more explored, I felt the same way and then it finally scratched the itch of things working (perhaps even too many options). I actually ended up using gentoo because it was less of a headache to just get things to work in a way that does not feel hacky

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I moved to Arch about 20 years ago because I wanted Gentoo but I didn't want to wait hours for compilation. I remember it fondly though. emerge was kind of a killer feature.

Though I gotta say, I'm a bit more curious now that we have better processors. And I'm curious what I've missed over the years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

With binary packages it’s actually doable on a laptop. Also newer laptops have tons of low power cores which are great for something highly parallel like compiling.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I tried out Gentoo for a while, and just using binaries for the web browser and office suite made the compile times a complete non-issue. The problem I had that made me give it up was that when there is software you want that isn't in the official repos there are a thousand different ways of getting it, and all of them suck. Overlays are supposed to be the solution for that, but man that experience was just awful.

I tried all kinds of things, but in the end all the options basically boiled down to risking breakage, maintaining my own packages, or not using emerge at all, which just feels like it's defeating the whole purpose of being on Gentoo in the first place.

[–] msage 3 points 3 months ago

Right?

Gentoo is the best, every time kids scream about AUR I just chuckle to myself.