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@killermenpl Tried a lot, and it's generally a lot of packages doing so. Idk which started it all anymore.
@zlice Yeah, I'm a dev (woah, what a surprise), and I know C(99), so I'll be fine in that. My biggest thing about Gentoo is honestly how it's a "compile it all" kind of distro; if it doesn't compile, it doesn't work, leaving room for it only to work if it does succeed. Configs seem very bash-like and I love that.
@Gentoo Wouldn't really expect anything to break like in Arch (see above).
@Nhil What are those? -
@Proximyst distros built around package managers that allow you to essentially roll back a system to a previous state, every new program install is sort of like a snapshot of the system at that point. So if an update breaks anything you roll the system back a step.
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@zlice I'd be ending up with little to no usage of gentoo's tools, and rather git + compile manually, so that's not an issue :p
@Condor I use Deepin DE+WM. -
@Condor I luckily don't use Facebook, no.
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Gentoo user (+O3+lto+graphite) it's fun to install gentoo :D I've ran deepin before but it kinda broke (thanks qt) but it works nice with a separate overlay. I can help if you need anything. Well the only hard thing is to wait for stuff to compile. Use cache whenever you can portage actually supports it. Also if you want a more gui tool for installing get a Ubuntu livecd or basically any livecd will do. And don't forget the "-bindist" useflag it can save you some time with a few packaged complaining about flags.
TL;DR: Fuck fucking Arch fucking Linux. Gentoo. Yay or nay?
So over the last few days my arch install has gone to hell. A small install of a package brings up some other update as it needs an updated version, then shit starts to segfault. I've been compiling anything and everything from sources rather than using pacman, and it works great. My DE has an issue with animations and does a FULL FUCKING KERNEL PANIC when I as simple as change what virtual desktop I focus. I'm genuinely so fucking done with Arch and I wish to change. I'm not touching Ubuntu with a 10 foot pole, nor any other Debian shit, so I'm wondering whether Gentoo might be it. Anyone got experience with it? Worth a shot for an experienced linux user?
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fuck arch