Gentoo Linux: Explained | Linux Distro Reviews

==What is the reason that you would use Gentoo?==
After many months, the much requested Gentoo review is here. This time, I attempt to explain what Gentoo is, and who it is for...as it is a very tricky beast to limit in one box.

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[roembol]

Holy shit this looks so good for a video from 7 years ago

[willmcdade]

When you watch a Youtube video that seems oddly familiar, then you remember you watched it when it came out.


But you're watching it 7 years later...

[Thriving_in_Exile]

1:15 -ish, "...don't recommend using Gentoo unless you've been accustomed to the Linux ecosystem for at least a year."
I gotta offer an alternative viewpoint: I tried Gentoo after about three months of distro-hopping between the usual suspects, and although it was *COMPLETELY* agonizing, I learned more about Linux than I ever could have on Ubuntu, Fedora, what have you.

TL;DR: Feel free to dive in if you, a) Don't mind the pain, and more importantly, b) Want to learn something.

[kenba]

the quality is amazing for a 2013 video

[Markus]

"Gentoo/Funtoo don't tend to break by themselves. Someone has to break it"
The same is true for Debian. And at least for me, Debian is more stable and solid.

[bikutoso]

I'm a bit mixed on Gentoo Linux.
It meets all requirements I want in a desktop system and I enjoy using Gentoo Linux; it also has a lot of annoying points, mainly the compiling, USE flags, and configuring kernel.
The compiling just takes time and resources.
I can't find any information on how to best manage USE flags.
And configuring the kernel was the reason I stopped using Gentoo the last time I used it. A kernel update had removed options that I needed to get the graphics card to work, and the wiki had not updated that information until my system was so irreparable that I had delete everything.

[EdLrandom]

omg, kde used to be so ugly, hi from 2019

[IaMaWeSoMe]

My Reactions in the Video:

0:00-7:30 Really good and Informative
7:31-7:32 WTF
7:33-7:39 AH FUK MY EARZ
7:40-7:42 Now I can't hear shit
7:43-7:50 Now i really cant hear shit
7:50-Scared the shit out of me and WTF Editiing??
8:00-14:02 Great, Informative tutorial...

[ShaneFisher]

I like that way that you presented Gentoo and the skill that it takes to deal with it. I would love to see an in-depth review of Ubuntu Studio 13.10. I just installed it and so far it is exactly what I need for high quality video production. Keep up the great work and peace out.

[HeadsetGuy]

Oh man, that rendering error made me laugh.

[not_herobrine]

i know that this is a video from an ancient era when i am unironically rickrolled by the intro

[niggacode]

just pulled a gentoo docker image, i think it's easier to start this way.

[Nerdamania]

Good to see a video from you again! Gentoo Untill now was very unknown for me :) Maybe in the future.. Now very happy with my Manjaro though :)

[FunnelOfSteam]

Clockwork video! I run my company entirely on Gentoo. It is the best development environment so far.

[StormOS_Dev_Channel]

I'm a Gentoo user and can completely agree that it is complicated. I am NOT good at it in any shape or form, i dont know how to troubleshoot, or do anything beyond install it and setup the DE. all i do with Gentoo is use it as my daily OS and play games. That's it. I'm not a Linux elite or someone who does development. I just play around, so for me Gentoo is just as complicated as anybody else. That said, I love Gentoo and there is not much any other distro I would rather use.

[XerxesLins]

Currently I use the distribution Funtoo (Gentoo improved version, made by the same creator of Gentoo). I'm not very experienced user, but I understand that many dislike the way of the Gentoo (or Funtoo). These distributions are aimed at enthusiasts who like lots of flexibility and have fun solving package conflicts. Not for novice users who just want to turn the system on, and ready to use.

[StormOS_Dev_Channel]

Good job on this, thinking of doing a gentoo video too. This by far is I think the best gentoo video review on YouTube! Good job IG!

[certs]

Pretty impressive video for when it was made. I remember trying Gentoo in the early 2000s shortly after it came out. I was using FreeBSD as a desktop and I read about how alot of the inspiration for Gentoo came from FreeBSD. I figured it couldn't be much worse thank FreeBSD 5.8. Boy was I wrong. On a nearly 20 year old potato computer with a net connection that barely qualified as broadband it was a trainwreck. Never really messed with it again.

[ozrencupac]

If gentoo is so good then why isnt there genthree yet

[GothAlice]

On an 8-core machine (with 4GB of RAM) and a piddly 8GB of HDD space it takes about 20 minutes to get a working, fully up-to-date, bootable system, and maybe an additional 40 minutes to get a GUI on top of that. This clean install cold boots to shell (not GUI) in about 4 seconds, which includes all system-level daemons I use such as MongoDB, Nginx, and Postgresql. :D