Just wanna preface, I’m not trying to like attack Gentoo or anyone that uses it, I just wanna understand lol

I’m like an intermediate Linux user I’m definitely not an expert, and Gentoo is something I’m still quite confused about. To me it just seems unnecessary, like the real version of people making Arch just seem incredibly complicated. Does anyone actually use it as a daily driver? Why? Is it just for the love of the game? Is there some specific use case I’ve not heard or thought of?

  • timkenhan@sopuli.xyz
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    10 hours ago

    I’m using it right now, at least for personal project development. It’s surprisingly reliable. Aside from the well-known USE flags that let you nitpick stuff at compile time letting me mix newer stuff while keeping the rest stable.

    I do have my complaints:

    • it’s rolling release, making it less fitting for production use, tho not as bleeding edge as Arch
    • the package management logic could perhaps be more robust; one of my pet peeves is that it keeps pulling the latest version of Python despite not being used
    • some slight, relatively meaningless changes in package metadata might trigger recompilation
    • the default configurations might not be the most sane

    I have found sweet spot and preserved my configuration here for anyone to use.