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I've been happily using Gentoo since 2006 or 2007 across different machines and expect to continue using it for at least the next 5 years, but it's not for ever

by Jach 13y ago

I've been happily using Gentoo since 2006 or 2007 across different machines and expect to continue using it for at least the next 5 years, but it's not for everyone. I usually hear nice things about Arch, it's been around just as long. For an Ubuntu replacement that looks like it's going to be around for a while, there's Mint.. though I tried it recently and didn't like it and thought parts were poorly designed if they're trying to target an audience that doesn't even know what a shell is. On Gentoo I'm still using the last release of gnome2. Xfce4 is almost as good, and for newbies I tend to recommend Xubuntu and Mint together for them to choose... MATE is a community fork of gnome2, a version of which is on Mint (that I don't like as much as vanilla gnome2).

raylu 13y ago
> I usually hear nice things about Arch That's because you're hanging out with too many Gentoo users. The Arch Way[1] is stupid. Less broadly, it's a poor, knee-jerk reaction to Debian maintainers' over-zealous patching of software. Trusting upstream software maintainers to properly tag "stable" releases (which means something different for everyone) and to work with the rest of the software in the system is a mistake. Also, that's the entire point of package maintainers maintaining repositories. But that's OK. Something went wrong (again)? Just downgrade[2]! 1. Hope that the old package is in your cache 2. Hope that some repo mirror is out of date 3. Profit??? [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrading_Packages#Finding_your_older_version https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrading_Packages#Fi...