• msage@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I did that. Unironically, I just said fuck it, I’ll give it a shot.

    And… it just works. Like updates kinda fuck up a bit after not using it for a bit (I didn’t have time to use my desktop lately), but everything works great.

    I’m sure I could get mostly the same experience with Arch, but it’s just fun to flag off entire parts of software from even compiling. Also OpenRC is great.

    I can stream Steam games, which works much better on Gentoo than Ubuntu with the same hardware.

    Gentoo is not a meme, the compiles on modern CPUs are fast, software is wonderfully packaged, and I will not use anything else on my desktop ever.

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      1 year ago

      I know, my dad used gentoo in his glory days on pentium machines probably spending days compiling Firefox. Gentoo is way less of a meme now than what it was then. It’s actually a good distro if you want control.