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
Before I first ran emerge in 2007, I thought from all the “you compile” talk, that you ran a lot of make install (and chasing down dependencies manually) to do Gentoo. Didn’t realise it was easier1 than many other distros to install packages. I thought it would necessitate a lot more getting up to my elbows in source code, hands on with compiling. Nope [not if you don’t want to]. Convenient easy-peasy.
1 At least, in so far as emerge is shorter to type (than e.g. apt-get install or pacman -S)
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
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.
True.
Before I first ran emerge in 2007, I thought from all the “you compile” talk, that you ran a lot of
make install(and chasing down dependencies manually) to do Gentoo. Didn’t realise it was easier1 than many other distros to install packages. I thought it would necessitate a lot more getting up to my elbows in source code, hands on with compiling. Nope [not if you don’t want to]. Convenient easy-peasy.1 At least, in so far as
emergeis shorter to type (than e.g.apt-get installorpacman -S)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