I Really Want To Use Gentoo, I Just Cant..

I always find myself wanting to move to Gentoo only to find myself going back to Arch as I just don't need the level of complexity. Just wanted to make a ranty video and see if anyone else finds this cycle of trying Gentoo then coming back to Arch relatable? Let me know in the comments!

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#Gentoo

[TheLinuxCast]

We need to shave our heads, get better beards, and then walk around our backyards with selfie sticks. Then we'll have made it.

[juzujuzu]

Gentoo Linux is awesome. My third time with Gentoo was the last. Now I have been using Gentoo for couple of years and almost certainly never switching to anything else. Gentoo takes about couple of months to be really comfortable with it, and couple of months more and it's your second nature.

There might be reasons to not use Gentoo, but I personally don't know any. Learning curve is steep, but it stops suddenly and you realize that you master the system.

[gorgecunth]

Compileing firefox works. I did it on my pinephone(in a few days) The real killer is qtwebengine, which pulls in libvpx, which absoultely kills it.
The real time sink tho is the tinkering around with useflags and dependencies. The X useflag on some subdependency for example pulls in glib(which I wanted to avoid and shouldn't be required at this point). Good luck sifting through all your sub sub sub sub sub sub dependencies to find that one.
With Gentoo you'll likely just give up and use the default path anyway or start becoming a massive autist about every package installed on your system, with it's optimal config. And about your own mods and repos to avoid breaking stuff or having to finaly still install that thing you didn't want.
I like it, since I'm interested in this stuff, but for anything else it's less usefull.(unless you want to doctor an optimized os for mass production hardware, like chrome os)

[nonetrix]

Maybe in 2050 when compiling from source is just as fast as installing binaries every distro will be source based with CPU specific optimization... I can only dream

[TequilaDave]

Last time i did a proper stage 1 Gentoo install was years ago on a Pentium II 450 and it took several days overall to get a fully up and runnning GUI desktop to play DVDs etc. I learned a LOT from that experience about how computers and operating systems work. If you have the time, patience and are willing to learn I would highly recommend it.... even just in a virtual machine which you can delete afterwards.

[awa]

Gentoo is really only for Linux users who want absolute 100% control over their packages. If you’re not willing to invest time into Gentoo then just stay away from it. It’s not a simple distro where you can just install software, use it and move on with your life.

[PetrosSharp]

I'm a happy gentoo user. I'ts just fun. Gentoo comes with quite sane USE preconfiguration named profiles. It's out of the box. You can modify it if you want.

[armwrestling_nerd]

Been using gentoo for much more than a decade and it is my distro of choice. Most other distros has annoyances I can't stand.

Once you have set a profile (your own) and portage world file you can pretty much automatically let the system do emerge world to get it all in one run.

[sephiroth]

Gentoo is great if you have a thread ripper. But if they wouldn't have started with the binaries earlier this year I wouldn't be running it on my laptop. I'd still be on Debian Sid.

[EM_Skinwalker]

Tried to install gentoo but got cucked by pc issues at the last hurdle. Should i just set some time aside and get it done? I do want to move from binary to source based but dont know if its worth it as i dont think i have the time.

[LowSpecLinuxLaptop]

I used to like to play with my computer. Nowadays I just want to use the thing

[moaalseiari]

Gentoo is harder than Arch. Arch uses mkinitcpio to generate initramfs by default. It can do darcut like gentoo. However, Gentoo kernel config is too tideous and time consuming. After configuring the kernel. It becomes a maintain and you now u need to emerge to update repo every week and so..

[fznts]

I've never been able to install it.

[nevoyu]

You should install gentoo with systemd and encrypted zfs pools

Why are you feeling bad about not using Gentoo? Arch is good enough, you don't have to have the longest neckbeard in the world.

I also use Arch, btw.

[SianaGearz]

LINUX INFLUENCER.

I am evaluating Gentoo as a possibly sensible embedded system. If something is supposed to run on ARM1176, a core architecture that hasn't been fresh in 20 years and made to run on a little more than a coin cell, it certainly won't take very long to compile. The less i compile (the volume, not the frequency or the effort), the better the outcome. It's not going to have X11 for the time being, though in the future that is possibly a requirement but with bare minimum functionality, it's very much not going to have Firefox, and it triply so isn't going to have Chrome, absolutely bloody not.

Obviously i'm not crazy enough to compile on the target.

[paulnoecker]

Gentoo is hot garbage, try funtoo. I trust the original author of Portages choice and direction.