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I work at google, and I’m also someone who has used and messed around with Gentoo for like 12 years. When it comes to my day job I rather not spend time messing

by isatty 4y ago

I work at google, and I’m also someone who has used and messed around with Gentoo for like 12 years. When it comes to my day job I rather not spend time messing around with my own OS (my workflow aside) and leave it to other people. Multiply that by 100k or so engineers and the productivity boost is insane. We’re root on both desktops and laptops though, I just rather use my time for work and I’m sure my employer would rather I do that too.

prmoustache 4y ago
> I rather not spend time messing around with my own OS (my workflow aside) and leave it to other people. I don't really understand what "messing around mean" in your context. Exotic things like slackware or alpine aside, all major popular distros now offer unattended updates, easy upgrade path between major releases. Your vscode, neovim, jetbrains whatever or emacs do not work differently from one distro to another and since nowadays many external stuff is either distributed as static binaries, containers or flatpacks or appimages everything is quite straightforward and not distro specific.