Everything just feels way more complicated than it needs to be.

I tried installing Openshot (a video editor) but I couldn’t figure out how to fix the error it spits out when I try to emerge it.

I will now try out Arch and hope I don’t need a master’s degree to install packages.

Edit: Gentoo isn’t the first distro I’ve tried, I’ve been daily driving Debian for more than a year and just wanted to try it out since I heard good things about it. And also I didn’t really need to use Openshot, I just wanted some video editor and arbitrarily chose to install that one.

Also I guess I will just stick with Debian since apparently Arch is also complicated.

  • Prologue7642@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In my experience, Gentoo is in many ways easier than Arch. Portage is a much better package manager, and getting something to break (even if using unstable) is really hard. Never heard of OpenShot, but I would take a look if there are some bugs related to it that are relevant. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=media-video%2Fopenshot

    In my experience, whilst Arch is also an excellent distro it is much easier to mess something up, or for pacman to mess something.