I am looking for a distro that is based on Gentoo or is heavily inspired by it. I am a long-time Gentoo user and Debian on system where I don’t have the time to maintain it. I love the flexibility of Gentoo, but although my hardware keeps up, I find my self often not willing to wait hours for an update on my main machine. I am glad that there are some binary packages for some programs and I use flatpak, too. But even though, updates take too long, time I want to spend using my computer. I thought of going to Debian everywhere, because it is stable and does not move too fast regarding major updates. So, Arch-based distros are no option for me.

Can someone of the community recommend any Gentoo-based distros?

  • monobot
    2·
    1 year ago

    Whenever I tried to move away of gentoo I have found only pain.

    Looks good first few days but pretty soon I find issus I don’t want to deal with. Additionally, solutions are made by much less knowledgeable users, so even solution is hard to find.

    I use gentoo because it works and I know how to fix (without reinstalling).

    I have mint on one desktop, it is so nice… but I use it only occasionally (for gaming and deep learning) even font rendering is not what I like.

    You can try Debian Testing (or Unstable) whichever is rolling release, that’s closest you will come.

    A lot of people like Fedora… so, maybe…

    So… shop around but you will be back, it is like going from Subaru to anything else in the same price range or cheaper. Not possible.

    • poinck@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, on my previous machine I had still the stage3-archive from the day I built it. And I believe I even recompiled everything with different mtune settings, so that I can use the same installation after an CPU upgrade. Don’t remember details anymore; this was huge for me, back then. (:

    • poinck@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      And yes, I fear to find only frustration for some tweaks and changes I can do only with Gentoo. Choosing how I boot my machine and such. No grub, systemd-boot instead, etc.

      Debian is still the closest. Maybe I switch to it on my laptop, which I currently don’t use much.

      Maybe I should try something more ambitious like NixOS on the spare machine (laptop) and see whether it feels right for me; I can always fall back to Debian.

      • monobotEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have similar ideas, debian and Nix are my goto options but I am with Gentoo on main laptop.