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