Why I Use Gentoo

Off the cuff video explaining why I use Gentoo.

[MentalOutlaw]

You run Gentoo and don't wear sleeves, a fellow man of culture!

[impmadness]

"because I hate myself" lmao the perfect way to answer a question

[TheBuilder]

The first 5 seconds was the most honesty you will ever get from gentoo users.

[BetaMaster]

i love videos that don't clickbait and answer within 6 seconds

[redgeoblaze]

I like to tinker too,
But I also like not waiting fifty hours to install everything I use on a new install.
That's why I prefer Arch.
Gentoo seems like a nice pet project to tinker with though. Like an old car you keep in your garage, but never drive.

[rhwinner]

Installing and maintaining Gentoo and arch has been like a full semester course in Linux administration IME.

[PreetimanMisra]

I absolutely love the fact that the linux community is gaining and WINNING in the mainstream content space.

Been using linux since 2013 and it made me fall in love with COMPUTERS (not just linux!) 😃

Subscribed and waiting for more!

[Pipeartist]

Gentoo is amazing. You get a level of customization and optimization you can only get with a source based distro. It is the most stable system ive ever installed. Updates never break it. No two Gentoo installs are alike. Configuring your kernel is the hardest part. The moment of truth in a gentoo installation is the reboot.

[dczoekj]

Close your eyes and imagine the title was "Jordan Peterson: Why I use gentoo".

[AustinHulslander]

The way I look at it, it is a way to truly understand how the OS runs as a whole. It’s not that I needed to know but it gave me a greater appreciation for it.

[flyinghippo]

Thanks for making this video! I'm the kind of guy that swears by Manjaro KDE for all of his basic computing, but I love playing with more technical distributions in virtual machines so I can freely break stuff and learn from it without consequence, and Gentoo seems like it would be fantastic for that once my Linux skills are up to snuff. Even beyond that, I love seeing these distros being configured for everyday use, as your Steam and Spotify launchers seems to indicate.

[abdullahkhaled]

0:01 gentoo gives you the power of moving faster than your framerate

[shiorinyan]

Personally, Gentoo is amazing.
It has few things no other distros can offer, like flexiblity. And I don't mean USE Flags. I Mean, the fact, that you can mix repos, and still have proper, stable system. It won't just explode after one update. It will work and update.

Also portage is whole another level if it comes to package managers.

[kingivan]

I love Gentoo, but I don't have enough time to tinker it perfectly to me. So instead I use Arch or Endeavour. Great video though!

[peanutbutter]

Thanks Mate, I'll try and work with in a VM or something, compiling and knowing what you are installing probably helps with understanding where and what everything is and that is a big +ve for me.

[stefmyt]

That is a beautiful desktop! What WM are you using? And what is that top-bar? It honestly looks phenomenal!

[robertcoyle]

compile times. I built gentoo in virtual years ago and it probably was an 8 hour event for just a usable desktop with a simple window manager (fluxbox). I deliberately built it without a file manager to use the CLI. I have an old 32 bit IDE box sitting around not doing much of anything so maybe I should take the plunge.

I use Arch and halfway hope something breaks when I update or doesn't work out of the box. Keeps your nerd skills sharp.

[dstinnettmusic]

Windows is really spooky.

The spookiness of Mac OS is related more to creating their ideal user space. I think Apple _at the very least_ cares about privacy as a marketing tactic.

[valentin-catalin]

Next year I want to go full Gentoo like real chads.

[nevoyu]

Is it sad I really really use Gentoo because I feel like my hardware I criminally underused otherwise?