switched to Gentoo
hello,
I just switched to Gentoo and it's been good. I learned about USE flags and how to unmask a certain package. I know there is a lot more to learn but right now as a newbie there is so much I could do. I haven't enabled the "guru" overlay but I would need it to run waydroid.
2024-12-18 · 1 year ago · 👍 norayr, lucas, ps
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Cool, my next OS promised to be Redox maybe - for some reasons, always looking for something not useful. Those years it was Linux, but now it's pretty good and stable to continue with, haha
🚀 random29343 [OP] · 2024-12-19 at 06:07:
@HanzBrix I wanted to learn more about Linux and installing Gentoo is the best way to learn Linux, because it teaches how every things fit together in a Linux system. I also used ArchLinux which also teaches how Linux works.
🚀 digler · 2024-12-19 at 13:24:
obligatory I use arch linux
well, I used to. I might have to spin it back up sometime soon.
🐙 norayr [mod] · 2024-12-28 at 19:23:
@HanzBrix, for me thats a way to achieve minimal system,. the problem is that when you install something on any binary disribution, that brings dependencies, lots of them. if we want to have less, we have to not install many things. thats why my friend who uses void linux didnt even install git, because it brings lots of unwanted stuff. however git on gentoo, thanks to those USE flags is possible to build in a way it would not need dependencies, and would not link to them. binary distributions aim to provide what regular user wats to have. but if we want to stay minimal' we have to build ourselves and decide at build time which dependencies o we need and which not.
🐙 norayr [mod] · 2024-12-30 at 00:16:
well alpine is amazing, it's usually very small. but when you install some things you get lots of crap even on alpine, because the binaries were linked to libraries at compile time. and they were linked because alpine maintainers still have to keep in mind an imaginary user they are building for.
i can tell you this story: i am on dial-up in ~2005, i have a dual boot of debian and gentoo. i am trying to install something, i think media player on debian, it tells me i have to wait 30 minutes to download all dependencies. well i restart to gentoo, at first emerge (package manager) tells me: 15 minuten, but then i tweak use flags and disable some codecs and download time becomes 5 minutes.
💎 safiire · 2024-12-30 at 12:21:
I've been either maining Gentoo or at least had a Gentoo box going since 2001, I remember doing stage 1 back then. Built a new system a few years ago and have been maining it again. It is pretty unbelievable to me I can now run like 90% of modern steam games on it
🐙 norayr [mod] · 2025-01-06 at 01:17:
the most important part are use flags. i have so many disabled, that when kexec bug happened i looked and found out i have no kexec in my system.