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A comment I could have written word for word. Not hyperbole to say that Gentoo set the course of my life. I don't use it anymore, but I'll never forget my time
by Xiol32 3y ago
A comment I could have written word for word.
Not hyperbole to say that Gentoo set the course of my life. I don't use it anymore, but I'll never forget my time with it.
Long may it continue.
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoWhat do you use now? Why’d you change?
- Xiol32 3y agoFedora. I use Linux for work and have kids, don't have the luxury to tinker as much as I used to.
- jonhohle 3y agoYou may or may not like FreeBSD. A lot of the packaging concepts in Gentoo came from ports (hence the name portage). FreeBSD has binary or source packages that can be mixed, is stable, and is slower moving than Linux (in a good way).
- Zetobal 3y agoMy old Athlon could write books about failed compilations and 13 year old me fudging up every config file.
- Xiol32 3y agoPlenty of arguing with my parents to let me leave the computer on overnight to finish compiling KDE 3 on a Pentium 4.
- darkwater 3y agoHere another one o/ I got my first job in the web world because I was using Gentoo at home, and that totally defined my career as well. The day I build again a desktop computer, I think I'm going to install it again (although waking up at 4AM to check why the kernel or Konqueror weren't compiling and fixing the flag or dependency issue is certainly something I will not do again)