Unlimited freedom of choice. Anti-authoritarian. Meritocratic so #Maga and #leftist are filtered. This is the best distro. Peroid.
>>108962096Not that I care but Maga supports meritocracy.
>>108962096gentoo filters out people that won't read the handbook, the book is like a rite of passage for wizards
>>108962200>Tulsi Gabbard>Donald Trump>Steve Witkoff>Pete Hegeseth>Karoline Leavitt>Kash Patel>Mehmet Oz>Kenndedy Jr.
>>108962096>freedom of choiceBased.>Anti-authoritarianCringe, and false. I don't think people know what authority means anymore.>Meritocratic so #Maga and #leftist are filteredBased, except the concept of merit only exists in a system (established by authority)OP is a faggot. Either Gentoo is authoritarian or it's anti-meritocratic.
>>108962336merit is gained through any action that benefits me. fuck your authority.
>>108962096I got filtered because I have an old potato PC and I'd spend more time compiling every update than using the thing
>>108962346It's your own authority you're fucking over but ok bro have fun with that.
>>108962336It's cringe because we need to go Mao on retards and force them into the city and into technical jobs against their will, or else.
>>108962383you can use binary packages in gentoo instead of source packages if you wish
>>108962383I have an old Haswell CPU and compiling is fast enough. You don't compile the qtwebengine every day, do you?Anything else is good enough.What kind of potato PC are you on that you're worse than that?
>>108962096I'm not roasting my nuts compiling on this laptop just for my freedom. Debian is free enough.
Female Gentoo user here. Suck my 8-inch.
>>108962464>>108962719but then what's the benefit of gentoo over something like artix?
>>108963977Total system control.
Idk why anyone would do it for all packages, but it's nice to have for stuff that takes ages to compile on less powerful machines like web-browsers for example. But you still get the control you want to have over your system.
>>108962383Compile at fixed times when you dont use the computer (e.g. every saturday night)>pc mediocrethis works fine for me
>>108962096>Meritocratic so #Maga and #leftist are filtered.
>>108962096meritocratic? In what way?
>>108964043This is what I did. Started an update before bed once per week.
>>108962096>source-based, yet no reproducible builds>overlays are just a convenient excuse for the shitty official repos that many users fall for>users and developers alike in complete denial over the amount of time it takes to compile software>"customizable" distribution, yet it's getting less and less choice and devs discourage anything but orthodox configs all the time>circlejerking maintainers who coc competent ones into obvlivion>use flags and all that other shit ultimately makes no perceivable difference on a desktop>most bloated distribution of all: needs build-time dependencies by default and keeps all the sources (removing build dependencies is not practical since they are needed for updates anyway)>hundreds of unsolved bugs that are ignored at best and brushed off as unimportant at worst>untested, shit breaks even on the stable branch and isn't fixed for months. its "stability" is a complete myth>openrc sucks. it being the default is basically just a marketing point since it works better with systemd anyway, a lot less people would give a shit about gentoo if it weren't for this>boasts about supporting many architectures, yet only x86 and amd64 have a non-shit selection of packages>"unstable" branch is slow as shit, far from being "bleeding edge". even debian sid is better in this regard>literally won't merge valid prs to fix bugs and deficiencies in the repos even after having been properly audited and approved>original author doesn't even use it on desktops, he's a macfagIs Gentoo just an elaborate prank?
>>108962096Anyone who cares about the politics of software is not a free person. Imagine having the personal beliefs of people who you will never meet in person take up space in your head and prevent you from using legitimately useful and good software.
>>108963977it remains still the most modular distro
>>108964693>filtered by parted
>>108962096Im going to keep using void.>Inb4 trannyware I dont care. The trannys have no bearing on my computing reality. It works well for me and i have few issues i havent been able to fix.Gentoo seems overly complicated in an attempt to be as orthodox as possible.Not to say i wouldnt give it a go, it just doesnt interest me. It just seems like a hell of a time sink to get a running rig up to date.
>>108964907So true. This is why I use Lisp and hate Jews.
>>108964983Slackware is far more modular than Gentoo.For one, the core system does not depend on Python.
>>108962096>anti-authoritarian>x-craticI'll take contradictions for 500 alex
>>108966140Imagine being mogged by some shit called HackerOS.
>>108966140do you think you would have python installed anyway? would you rather maintain a bunch of bash scripts?
>>108964693>original author doesn't even use it on desktops, he's a macfagsimilar to https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-On-Laptop-Driverso much efforts are wasted on maintaining bullshit no one really use...gentoo it's absolutely not worth it and people who need to build from sources will use yocto or buildroot anyways
>>108966187Not even lunduke is retarded enough to think DistroWatch is a good indicator of distro usage.
>>108966206>would you rather maintain a bunch of bash scripts?Yes. I can be confident that Bash scripts will work just as well 30 years from now. Don't get me wrong, the language itself sucks, but once you get a script right, you can consider it set in stone.Python? Haha. Good luck migrating to Python 4 meanwhile.
>>108966214You can compile software from source on literally any distribution. Not just that, all of the popular binary-based distributions (Debian, Fedora...) provide source packages.The reason relatively few people use source packages on such distributions is because, as you pointed out, most of the time there is no real advantage over just grabbing a prebuilt binary package. It's a waste of time that only gives you internet points.
>>108966409That's a midwit take. Compiling software from source is a miserable experience on most binary distros, not because it's slow, but because it's extremely hard to integrate the build output into the system properly in the same way a binary package would be. On Gentoo, the package manager compiles the software for you and integrates it perfectly. The problem with that is, as you said, that compiling it yourself is pointless for 99% of packages, because you're not going to be making any changes to them anyway. The default should be to grab a binary, and only do a source build when the user chooses to apply source-level customizations to the package.
>>108962096>Unlimited freedom of choice.I choose to use eudev without systemd.Oh I can't?Is OP attempting to redefine "unlimited" or is he perhaps a naive individual who never actually used Gentoo yet is enthusiastic about t?p.s. And don't even get me started about the death of fbcondecor Gentoo's choices have been reducing over the years.
>>108962200Maga is DEI for Zionists.
>>108964907Well there is a legitimate reason to care. Sometimes you need to interact with people on forums or maybe you want to contribute a fix you did. Its hard to want to invest in a project knowing you might randomly get banned if you hold the wrong views and expressed it anywhere on the Internet. Also ideology can inform decisions for how the technology will change in the future, and political team sports is rampant so purely political views could affect software choices.
>>108962096Profiles actively make gentoo worse
>>108962262I dont care about politicians, as a movement Maga is pro-meritocracy and against DEI. Unless you expect politicians to do dev work that is. Why would you filter someone who values meritocracy in the first place?
>>108968123Theory is different from practice. You've never contributed to a project and you've never interacted with the developer. You can also never had this problem. And 99% of people here are the same exact way. If some fix or forum post you're going to make is going to bring up politics then you have no business making that post or posting that fix. If you're submitting a patch to handle a crashing application or asking for clarification about what some kind of settings do in a configuration file, there's zero reason to bring up politics. And if you do, it's because you are inherently combative and want to argue.
>>108962719I used it on an Athloin XP single core. Was fast enough.
>>108966517>Compiling software from source is a miserable experience on most binary distros, not because it's slow, but because it's extremely hard to integrate the build output into the system properly in the same way a binary package would be.Not at all. Have you ever actually tried?
>>108966905I use eudev without systemd.
>>108962096Yes, but the official Debian discord server added rainbows for pride month.So wouldn't that mean lefties aren't filtered?
>>108968275As a movement MAGA is pro sucking Trump's dick
>>108968275>The cult leader my entire political movement is built around and the people he appoints to positions of power are irrelevant to whether said movement is meritocratic.And this is why there's a negative correlation between IQ and Trump dicksucking syndrome.
>>108966905You can just use udev from the systemd-utils package. It lets you run programs that need udev without needing to have systemd installed. Eudev has been dead for more than 5 years. If you want to use that instead, even though it's literally the same thing, by all means go and maintain it yourself
>>108964693USE flags are great because I can control optional dependencies and install nonstandard parts of the program. On Arch you'd have the main package and 50 different subpackages that are basically the same thing but for one miniscule difference that someone somewhere might want for that one package
>>108966394This is a non-issue because the core system will never be "set in stone". And since the maintainers are developers that will be notified of a possible python 4 migration (instead of, say, a customer mad because his program stopped working) they'll remove deprecated code and make the switch as early as possible.>>108969855Not him but portage's benefit isn't the one-off integration of the system package, it's updating it automatically. If you compile something from source in a binary distro then it's on you to keep it upgraded. Meanwhile gentoo does that for you
>>108962096>update world*breaks* even Daniel Robins says portage was a mistake.
>>108968767Did NixOS not purge a high ranking member of a CoC violation? Did Bazzite not do the exact same thing? Come on man. Yeah I'll just bite my tongue and never express an opinion under a username that could eventually get connected to me, while other people get to loudly yell "fuck fascism, racism, homophobia, etc." The problem is that anything you say anywhere that get tied to you will be held against you.Honestly, why should someone invest in Open Source or Free Software when this is a constant threat looming over so many projects? Spend countless hours of my time helping develop software for free just to be unceremoniously removed? And if I fork a project (ex: XLibre) then suddenly I have to worry about no one wanting to collaborate. Or worse them going out of their way to disassociate like with Arch removing the wiki entry (you know, the wiki everyone relies on regardless of what distro they're on)? All the while the political team sports players will pretend like that's not happening and just find minor point to mock. If chuds did make ChudOS there would be such an extensive effort to antagonize and cripple it, they'd probably need to go closed source because leftoids are psychos who project all of societies woes onto people who disagree with them online. The whole point of Open Source is one man can't make everything themselves. We're standing on the shoulders of giants who are also atop other giants. So you're supposed to put aside petty differences to help make good software people can actually use. But no, left-wingers need everything they do to be an extension of their pet political beliefs so they can't have a heckin Nazi on their project. And of course the definition of Nazi is always updating to include more and more people. So you're taking the hard work on hundreds of people and getting to stamp an unrelated political message on top of it, and use it to gatekeep for your own short term political gain.
>>108973023This is such an autistic point. You can be against DEI as a policy but not embody the platonic ideal of trve meritocracy in every aspect of your life. A very desperate attempt at chud dunking
>>108962200Then why do they support democracy
>>108974836There's a bit of a gap between>not embody the platonic ideal of trve meritocracy in every aspect of your lifeand the absolute omega clownesque post-absurdist retardmaxxing circus that is MAGA. Try again.
Can someone please explain how gentoo is meritocratic?
>>108962096Meme distro. No one who's serious about computers messes with or wastes their time on it.
>>108962234I installed Gentoo with an AI chatbot, I'm glad I became a wizard by passing the rite of passage!
>>108975057>serious about computers
>>108970928Is the discord actually official? Troons jump on anything social, especially discord.If it is, or it's like the arch one where it's technically unofficial, but actually official,then it might be indicative of a social presence outside of pure computing?That being said, as long as they're not using politics to prioritise direction like debian, I dunno if it'd be an issue having a few rainbows?
>>108962096>DUUUUUUUDE, THIS IS LIKE SO BASED AND REDDITPILLED BRO>It's just like my heckin wholesome 100 freedumbs!!
>>108974946Do you have single argument that is not pure ad hominem? Maybe take care of your raging TDS before posting again.
