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Gentoo was great fun, when I was young and had a lot of time. It worked surprisingly well. But I often skipped installing security updates, because it could tak
by andix 3y ago
Gentoo was great fun, when I was young and had a lot of time. It worked surprisingly well. But I often skipped installing security updates, because it could take days to finish on a slow system.
Maybe some day I will get nostalgic and try it out again, but I really don't miss it yet. It's also quite a waste of CPU power and energy to compile everything from scratch without a real need.
- krmboya 3y agoIt may look like a waste to compile from scratch but it's great for reproducible builds. That can important in cases where you need to be sure you are running the source code that you can see