I think many of us use binary distributions in addition to Gentoo I have many Debian VMs, CentOS servers, Alpine servers in daily use. Most of the bad stuff that happened to me is probably due to my inexperience from the time. PS: It feels like a rant against Ubuntu/Debian, but it isn't. Thanks to all of the maintainers and contributors. In any case, thanks you Gentoo, I'd love to use you again sometime. As of today I'm still hesitating as of which distribution to go to, but it will probably be Debian stable, Fedora Workstation or openSUSE Leap. Mainly because I want to switch to lower consumption hardware, and waiting for packages to build became boring (Yes, I though of it as fun for some time). Partly because, thanks to Gentoo, I now understand most of the binary distributions, what they do in my stead, and what are their limitations. I decided to stop using Gentoo to go back to a binary-based distribution.
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People are actually helpful, and I never encountered someone full of themselves.
And it actually allowed me to understand how the traditional init system was working.Īlhough I rarely had to talk with other users of Gentoo, every discussion I had was a nice one. I can't count how many times I had to use a recovery disk when I used Ubuntu/Debian).Īlthough I don't like this init "paradigm" anymore since I discovered systemd and s6, OpenRC is the best implementation of all the SysV style init systems I had read the source code. I did four successful profiles migrations, one being from desktop/systemd to desktop (I could reboot into Gentoo the first try, without having to use a recovery disk (I'm proud).
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news were actually helpful and could allow me to never have to browse the internet to update in some tricky situations, or to find alternatives for packages that were deprecated. Huge thanks to the official ebuild repository maintainers. But it may due to the fact that I didn't know what to expect from a Linux distribution, maybe I tried some hacky things at the time I didn't even know were hacky. Even Debian failed me quite some times although it is a "stable" distribution. Some things that are great about Gentoo are:Īnd how it is able to keep the system clean across a lot of packages installs and uninstalls compared to the apt suite of Debian. In a nutshell, Gentoo was my best discovery in the "Linux" world, and a serious distribution for desktop use. I also slowly but steadily learnt a lot about the kernel, partly thanks to the fact I had to build it by myself (I always avoided genkernel). Using Gentoo allowed me to understand what was the deal about Linux distributions quickly and in details. I remember bootstrapping Gentoo from the Debian installation I used as my main OS. What part it played in "Linux distributions", what was the "bare minimum" a distribution had to offer, etc. Risky, because I didn't know anything about what Linux really was.
I made a risky switch to Gentoo and used it up until now. In 2015, a friend of mine talked about Gentoo, and I got interested by the source-based distribution model that I didn't know about until then. Then, in 2014, I made the choice to only use Linux distributions for all desktop-related stuff but gaming.
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One year after this move to Debian I achieved 50/50 use-time of Windows and Linux distributions. I used it sporadically until 2012 then moved to Debian. I debuted with Ubuntu, motivated by the advertised "ease of use".
I started using Linux distributions as desktop operating systems around 2010. Posted: Sat 5:59 am Post subject: Goodbye, Gentoo Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Goodbye, Gentoo
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