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Slightly OT but hilariously spot-on about many gentoo-isms: http://funroll-loops.info http://funroll-loops.info
by kylek 14y ago
Slightly OT but hilariously spot-on about many gentoo-isms: http://funroll-loops.info http://funroll-loops.info
- nitrogen 14y agoMany of the quotes on that page were reasonable questions and statements. Adding a picture of a van with more tailfins than a 1950s roadster doesn't change that.
- sliverstorm 14y agoAgreed. I still don't understand why the comments about USE flags are supposed to be comical. I haven't used Gentoo for a while now because the downsides outweigh the plusses for me, but I think USE flags are definitely one of the plusses. Watching shit scroll by for hours makes me a Linux expert overnight! No, but when this or that package failed to compile and I didn't even have X yet let alone Firefox (for Google)- that was when I first really started learning about Linux.
- tehwalrus 14y agoI don't use Gentoo anymore (mostly because I don't want to break my Macbook Pro's fussy EFI bootsector nonsense) but installing it on machines a couple of times taught me more about Linux (indeed Unix-ness) than any previous activity.
- PhantomLobe 14y agoMe too. I arrived to Gentoo from Debian-land, where a lot of things happened automagically. Now I stick to Arch, kind of a middle ground IME.
- mercurial 14y agoOn the other hand, I can see the point in making fun of people removing use flags and playing with -O in order to squeeze performance out of their DE. I've been one of these people, and in my experience, any such gain is too small to be noticeable in practice.
- nitrogen 14y agoRemoving use flags and playing with optimization flags can be one of the intermediate steps on the path from "knows nothing about Linux or computer hardware" to "expert low-level developer or admin with detailed knowledge of CPU microarchitecture and practical OS design."