I used, and loved, Gentoo for quite a while maybe 15 years ago. However, over time my installs inevitably got more broken (probably my fault). But thanks to my Gentoo experience I would never use a non rolling-release system anymore so Debian testing is my jam for the foreseeable future.
That's also what happened to me. I'm not the sort who updates frequently (even on Arch), and the repeated blocking packages under Gentoo eventually got annoying.
But mostly it was the build times for me. Package breakage isn't difficult to fix. Long build times, however, eventually got tiresome.
But that was 8 years ago. Hardware has markedly improved, and I'm sure it's hardly an issue these days (it's not on the Gentoo images I run). But, I'm hugely fond of Arch.
Though, qtwebengine only takes 38 minutes on my 32-thread Threadripper. Full emerge -eva @world only takes two hours or so.
Try Xorg, Firefox, KDE, et al, on circa 2008 hardware (bearing in mind I switched to Arch not long after building a new system in 2012).
It's a labor of love.
That's Gentoo for you.
I actually have the old FreeBSD Daemon tattooed on myself.
I have a small miniature of the FreeBSD daemon (copper plated, about 2" high) made by some jeweler in Australia back in the early 2000s. Sadly the tail broke off on the way over here, but it is what it is.
Obviously not a permanent piece of body art, but we all have our own, uh, eccentricities.
(It came with both the trident and an apache.org feather.)
Indeed. Never did test it on new hardware since I'd switched by that point.
I do occasionally keep some proficiency with Gentoo via LXD though, but since the images are small the recompilation is obviously pretty fast.
That's what I love about OSS: use what works for you!
Yep, absolutely.
I'm a KDE user on NVIDIA, so I'm somewhat cautious about Wayland. I'd guess EGLStreams is the only option in that case since they apparently have their own idea of doing things. I also sometimes run graphical apps from inside containers. Xorg is probably the only option at this point.
I was a Gentoo user for about 7 years. Switched to Arch primarily because I got tired of
emerge --deep worldtaking longer than I would like.I still have an immense fondness for Gentoo, though. That was my first Linux distro (I came from FreeBSD).
I used, and loved, Gentoo for quite a while maybe 15 years ago. However, over time my installs inevitably got more broken (probably my fault). But thanks to my Gentoo experience I would never use a non rolling-release system anymore so Debian testing is my jam for the foreseeable future.
That's also what happened to me. I'm not the sort who updates frequently (even on Arch), and the repeated blocking packages under Gentoo eventually got annoying.
But mostly it was the build times for me. Package breakage isn't difficult to fix. Long build times, however, eventually got tiresome.
But that was 8 years ago. Hardware has markedly improved, and I'm sure it's hardly an issue these days (it's not on the Gentoo images I run). But, I'm hugely fond of Arch.
Try Xorg, Firefox, KDE, et al, on circa 2008 hardware (bearing in mind I switched to Arch not long after building a new system in 2012).
That's Gentoo for you.
I have a small miniature of the FreeBSD daemon (copper plated, about 2" high) made by some jeweler in Australia back in the early 2000s. Sadly the tail broke off on the way over here, but it is what it is.
Obviously not a permanent piece of body art, but we all have our own, uh, eccentricities.
(It came with both the trident and an apache.org feather.)
Indeed. Never did test it on new hardware since I'd switched by that point.
I do occasionally keep some proficiency with Gentoo via LXD though, but since the images are small the recompilation is obviously pretty fast.
Yep, absolutely.
I'm a KDE user on NVIDIA, so I'm somewhat cautious about Wayland. I'd guess EGLStreams is the only option in that case since they apparently have their own idea of doing things. I also sometimes run graphical apps from inside containers. Xorg is probably the only option at this point.