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Gentoo has continued to be one of my favorite GNU/Linux flavors because it makes me feel like I'm fully in control of my system, across package feature flags, c
by wyc 6y ago
Gentoo has continued to be one of my favorite GNU/Linux flavors because it makes me feel like I'm fully in control of my system, across package feature flags, compiler flags, init process, disk management, and window systems. It leaves you with a blank slate to truly make your own. Make no mistake--it does take significant work and understanding to do so, but for me the satisfaction is immense. On a cold winter's night, compiling dev-qt/qtwebkit can even keep you warm.
One of my favorite tongue in cheek sites from Gentoo's earlier era:
https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Ge...
- Gualdrapo 6y ago> On a cold winter's night, compiling dev-qt/qtwebkit can even keep you warm. Did you meant dev-qt/qtwebengine?
- wyc 6y agoHah, perhaps!
- goalieca 6y agoI remember that gentoo site. At one point I installed gentoo precisely because there was a seemingly huge difference in Pentium 3 code vs i386 that every other distro seemed to be tuned for. Also cutting out bloat seemed to relieve ram pressure and load times. I ditched it when the very first ubuntu release came out and it just worked and felt as fast. I then questioned my wasted hours doing miserable computer work that I took no joy in. I think I was running amd by then (possibly 64-bit?)
- wyc 6y agoI think what the site was making fun of is the idea that tuning perfectly to your machine gets you substantially more performance, which in my experience is generally untrue with respect to payoff for effort. I like flags to build certain tools without X support, not to squeeze a few new vector ops into the ASM.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoBut they had KDE 3.x ripped apart into single components! That was really great.