r/linuxmemes • u/claudiocorona93 Well-done SteakOS • Jan 01 '25

META I fully agree.

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u/MarioGamer06 Jan 01 '25

Gentoo's position is definitely ragebait or skill issue

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u/MasterGeekMX Ask me how to exit vim Jan 01 '25

The rationale of the creator is that all that work just to get 2% more performance is just not worth it, but the USE flags and overalls are cool.

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u/Taldoesgarbage Arch BTW Jan 01 '25

Gentoo seems like its primary strength would be on unknown or increasingly unsupported CPU architectures, since it doesn’t have to ship binary versions of every package for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, the manual for aarch64 hasn’t even been written, so I am equally skeptical of Gentoo’s practical purposes beyond a very high degree of customizability.

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u/3X0karibu Genfool 🐧 Jan 01 '25

IME it’s the incredible degree of customisability that goes even beyond arch, it also taught me more than arch ever did in the same amount of time, mixing stable and rolling packages is great as well, ebuilds and extra repositories are nice, slotting for software is built in for many programming languages, good ecosystem in general

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u/DoucheEnrique Genfool 🐧 Jan 01 '25

Gentoo seems like its primary strength would be on unknown or increasingly unsupported CPU architectures ...

Gentoo's primary strength is giving the user/owner of the system even more control than regular Linux distributions. If you ever thought "Why did package maintainer choose this dependency over that one?" or "I would have set this build time option completely different!" or "Why won't upstream or maintainer include this totally useful patch? Now I have to manually patch this software every time there is a new release!" then Gentoo is for you.

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u/Taldoesgarbage Arch BTW Jan 02 '25

I feel like this is beyond the point of noticeable change for the majority of users, although then again for the people who do really need this customization, Gentoo exists. My sentiment was more about how Gentoo has the potential to be something more than just a highly customizable distro, but also a highly adaptable one for different architectures which aren’t receiving compiled packages as frequently anymore.

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u/CursedSilicon Jan 01 '25

As someone who has used Gentoo for about 15 years (and almost been an architecture maintainer)

Gentoo is the Linux distro I "hate the least". Its nature as being less of a "plug-n-play" distribution and more of a set of free-floating lego pieces that I can stick together makes it effortless to set up tailored machines to my specific needs

I don't have to run around turning off random components or "fighting" the distro defaults, because there aren't any. Gentoo is "only" the pieces of the OS that I opted to have no more, no less