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[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Should've installed gentoo.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will i understand the plot of gentoo if I havent installed genone?

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, but you'll need to compile it from source

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Compile gentree already GabeN!

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
[–] msage@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 4 points 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.