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Power users use Gentoo.
by 31b3r3t7 3y ago
Power users use Gentoo.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoNo, masochists use Gentoo.
- HybridCurve 3y agoWe use gentoo because a linux system without problems is boring.
- seanw444 3y agoMeh, I'll stick to binaries for 95% of my stuff.
- nateb2022 3y agoNot if they don't want to spend a third of their time maintaining their system.
- BillyTheMage 3y agoThat's a bunch of propaganda. Sure it takes longer for the initial setup, there's no "click this button to install Gentoo" menu, but once you've got it setup it's easier to maintain.
- memefrog 3y agoNah I totally disagree. This is true of Arch, but Gentoo makes it incredibly easy to screw up your system. You never really truly break things, of course, not in a way you can't fix. But if you start adding USE flags all over the place it's pretty easy to get to the point that you can't update anymore because of endless blockers and other weird stuff.
- nateb2022 3y agoIt's easier to maintain a very fine-level of control, but only if users are prepared to invest the time and effort to keep themselves up to date on the software that makes up their system. Sure, that is probably assumed to some degree as part of being a power user, however alternatives like Arch and nixOS are capable of providing similar levels of configuration with a little more ease, at least in certain places. > but once you've got it setup it's easier to maintain. In general, this is not the case compared to more out-of-the-box distros like Debian, where upgrading is simply a matter of "apt update && apt upgrade".
- fhduksbegd 3y agoMinor correction would be to use sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
- BillyTheMage 3y agoCan't remember the exact quote but: "People who use Ubuntu know Ubuntu, people who know RHEL know RHEL, but people who use Gentoo know Linux"
- vdfs 3y agoAre you even a Linux user if you haven't built your Linux From Scratch?
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