2026 I am forgotten
install gentoo
>>109870260It's tough being the only distro without drama
>>109870548no it's not
>>109870618>fedora>picrel
>>109870879>why is a company named literal hat names their product fedora (which is also a hat)yeah I also wonder the same, it's a mystery
>>109870260>gentoo/g/entoomen no longer have the attention spans for it.
>>109870879that's a trilby thougheverbeitctually
Is there another source based distribution out there or what?
>>109871157Pikey Doherty is building one:https://github.com/TravellingEngineer/barney
>>109870342I am pretty sure if I installed it, I would end up with a system that needs to be recovered three times a week>inb4 skill issueexactly
>>109871218Just don't run testing and only upgrade it when you have the time to fix anything that breaks.Gentoo with stable packages is rather boring. The most eventful thing is a Python upgrade or two.
>>109871157exherboit's gentoo but written in C++ instead of python
>>109871298you should only use unstable for the programs that you actually use, not the librariesbecause unstable libraries will break many programs that depend on it
>>109870260Gentoo cured my distrohopping 2 years ago just like /g/ always said it would.install gentoo>>109871157I don't think so, just ones that are either abandoned or barely maintained
>>109871201>https://github.com/TravellingEngineer/barney>I was motivated out of retirement effectively through disgust and astonishment. Initially dumbfounded by the absurdity of Omarchy receiving approx. $13MN in funding for essentially a respin, I then learned of the views of DHH.>As an Irish Traveller, I strongly condemn such rhetoric against any nomadic people
>>109871363It's fine as long as you limit what you have installed and are prepared to handle the breakage. In theory nothing is supposed to break in the first place because we use explicit dependencies (slotted to specific so version) and Portage will block on them but in practice sometimes the dependencies aren't so explicit (e.g "/0" being used as a sort of "I don't care" dependency) and then you get to deal with the fallout.
>>109871157funtoo is coming backtrust the plan
>>109871380It's pretty funny that Omarchy triggered him. Ikey's a good engineer though. I hope he succeeds in building something useful because an immutable source-based distribution is something that's lacking and genuinely interesting.
I have had Gentoo on my workstation for ~5 years. It never really breaks, sometimes I have to spend a couple hours working around something (Python version upgrade). I find it easier to manage than other distros because Portage is good and the entire system is easily hackable.
>>109870260never forgotten
>>109871402Tried Funtoo for a while and it made a lot of sense.>use Gentoo>want some feature in your system>read Gentoo Wiki on what do>have to enable some USE flag, some USE_EXPAND flag, install this, install thatVS>use Funtoo>want some feature in your system>enable feature from settings and system goes brrrNever really understood why this couldn't be implemented on top of the usual Gentoo installation.
>>109871749gentoo has the equivalent called profile, that is a combination of USE flags which are guaranteed to be compatible with each other and never breaksthey also provide profile in their stage3 downloads (such as desktop profile)https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/amd64/#stagesbut yeah, funtoo is still better
>>109871598Troons and corpojeets like OP forgot about it which is good.
>>109870618Fedora is redhat's betatesting distro, it feels weird to use it.
>>109871402>AI slop gentoo no thanks>he says trust the plan, i will now trust the plan!eat shit
>>109872011it's not AI slop, nigger
>>109870548>no drama>consolekit/elogind
>>109871402holy shit
Nowadays I just use NetBSD on everything that I have, otherwise I'd 100% use Gentoo, specially for out of the box gaming.
>>109871885> A rich corp is behind itActually feels wise to use it. You have stable things with a higher certainity.
>>109872477It is other way around. Fedora is forever broken. You are forever it's betatester. If you want something stable and reliable, you never use it, simple as.
>>109872462How is NetBSD on a modern laptop for daily use (not including games ofc)?
