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I stepped into Gentoo at the age of around 15 and it was probably the best Linux distro for a teenager nerd. Time and curiosity was plenty and Gentoo sucked up/

by ktpsns 4y ago

I stepped into Gentoo at the age of around 15 and it was probably the best Linux distro for a teenager nerd. Time and curiosity was plenty and Gentoo sucked up/consumed all of them. As a grown up with a job, I even find Arch on desktop sometimes too time consuming, but on average it is a good compromise between rolling releases charming Gentoo and old men's Ubuntu/Debian.

explorigin 4y ago
Same for me, I loved the ability to customize things and was constantly re-building packages. But the real thing is that it is what made me comfortable with the command-line and linux as a whole. I'd used Debian quite a bit before Gentoo but I always just "used" it. If something broke, I did the windows thing and re-installed without truly understanding it.