I used Gentoo for 3y. in hindsight I wasted so many CPU cycles just because I thought --march=native would make things faster.
nope.
you know what made things faster? switching to arch ๐
When CPUs were a lot slower you could genuinely get noticeable performance improvements by compiling packages yourself, but nowadays the overhead from running pre-compiled binaries is negligible.
Hell, even Gentoo optionally offers binary packages now.
Yes, I tried it around 2002/2003, back when the recommended way was from stage1. I think I had a P4 with HT. It was noticeably faster than redhat or mandrake (yes, I was distro hopping a lot). Emerge gnome-mono was a night run. Openoffice about 24hrs.
Lots of wasted time but I did learn how to setup some things manually.
@atmur i had no clue they were doing that, very interesting
I did jump onto Gentoo ship chasing performance, but stayed because of USE flags.
You know what was even faster? Switching to something easier like Fedora/Linux mint/Debian
"Tell me one last thing", said Harry. โdid i install Open BSD for real? Or has this business, the dual boot failure , both computers damaged, the sharks, all been happening inside my head?โ
Dumbledore chortled at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harryโs ears even though the bright ocean mist was descending again, obscuring his figure.
โOf course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
OpenBSD is the easiest BSD to install and most things work right outside the box
Now imagine the same meme but with Gentoo and LFS
I've been thinking about it ...
I'm not even ready for Arch because I can't make decisions for myself.
That's easy, just pick btrfs, gnome, pipewire, systemd, gdm, grub, and add flatpak in your additional packages.
Every other configuration is wrong.
/s
Try endeavoros, it's an opinionated arch with a simple installer
I put Linux Mint on a thumb drive once a few months ago to try it. So, yeah, I'm pretty into Linux.
That's unironically why I like Manjaro ๐
CachyOS on my side. Lol. Decide for me. I'll change it if I hate it. ๐๐
Pepperidge Farms remembers compiling apps via the grimoire spells in sorcerer Linux.
I tried Gentoo recently and I really liked it when I finally figured everything out. I wanted the latest packages similar to arch, but I was basically spending at least an hour every time I started my computer updating. I still really like Gentoo, but it just isn't for me right now. I appreciate what it taught me about Linux though
Compiling dependencies for an hour or so every time I wanted to install something also got a bit old.
What did Gentoo teach you about Linux?
I main it (and am never switching again btw), but I learned absolutely nothing new. Packages build themselves, and everything works.
I was hoping to learn new things about compiling from source, but I guess I will have to make ebuilds for that.
I guess more about setup and what other distros do for you behind the scenes. Everyone always talks about how bare bones arch is, but it still does a lot behind the scenes with config and setup, especially with encryption
Eventually you'll come back to wanting a working easy to use system
I've become my dad. God damn you passage of time!
Back in the early 2010s, I had a friend told me that his computer crashed trying to compile all of Gentoo.
NixOS is the better source-based distro. Everything can compile from source, but you can also use the binary cache if you don't want to.
I never tried gentoo cause i never liked the idea of compiling everything. I only compile if i have to because i always feel like it's a waste of time in general. I have used NixOS for the past 6 months though, but i didn't like how many issues it gave me when updating. Now i'm back on good old void linux.
so he got sent to nixos
Lolll. This is me exactly.
Did Gentoo ever untangle the NP-complete problems in its package manager?
