@Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au
Why Gentoo?
2026-08-10 21:31 UTC
Replies (6)
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@delcaran@feddit.it 2026-08-11 05:35
I literally installed it 5 days ago on my 14 yo PC: Fedora was too much ahead for my hardware, Slackware had some incompatibilities with it, Debian was crawling slow. Gentoo is really good: took a day to install it because I needed to learn how to use lvm with initramfs on uefi and some other small things. Not much recompiling thanks to binary repository. And its blazing fast, my PC is flying like its 2014 again! Today I have to recompile qtwebengine because I need digikam, and this will take time I guess. But for now I think its worth it.
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@mastertigurius@lemmy.world 2026-08-10 21:43
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@LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2026-08-11 00:16
I don’t know the first thing about Gentoo but just the first 3 points Gentoo aims to be independent Gentoo aims to be secure Gentoo aims to be made by humans Damn I want to try it now. If only I had 72 hours in a day…
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@duckman@startrek.website 2026-08-11 00:39
I used to be a Gentoo user. I do really miss portage and its USE flags. I learned so much too. First few times I bricked my system, it was a reinstall, but I got to the point I could fix any issue I came across. My CachyOS install borked it self the other day and because of my Gentoo experience it was no big deal to load the live image and chroot in and fix it. But that’s also why I moved away from it. I messed around and found out a lot. It was fun. But when you get home from work and it is no longer fun to spend a few hours to get your computer going again… You find a new distro. Debian is what I use for my servers and CachyOS is my current desktop and laptop. But I still think about checking out Gentoo again one day…
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@ExtimateCookie@hexbear.net 2026-08-11 00:44
I wish I could use it but I don’t have enough CPU cores for this
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@sludgewife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-08-11 14:46
i installed it 20 years ago and have daily driven it since. i’ve never needed to reinstall or anything, it has just evolved with the times and my tastes. i love being able to customize everything. i have it wake up and update itself on a schedule so i’m rarely waiting for compiles to finish. everything is tuned for my hardware and it feels really snappy. idk it’s just great. not for everyone!