Just showing off my desktop. For those curious, I use the XFCE desktop, and ULauncher tied to the windows key. I’m also experimenting with animated wallpapers using hidimari.

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    2 years ago

    I just don’t know if I have the time to maintain a gentoo system lol. I’ve always been interested in it, but I feel like the advantages of it aren’t enough for me to change.

    Portage is definitely cool. I think it is inspired by the ports system on FreeBSD, which also lets you choose different compile options, use a stable or newer version of software, etc

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      Although it is a bit more involved than let’s say Debian/Fedora it is pretty stable, I don’t think I ever had any update that broke something. Especially if you are using stable packages and not unstable. If you update at least once a month, you will probably be fine. But yeah, overall it is a bit of a tinkerer’s distro, especially if you try to do things like compile your own kernel etc.

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        It’s something that’s interested me before but I don’t think I’m the target audience. I always thought of gentoo as being a meta distribution, or something for embedded system or specific hardware, where gentoo’s strengths really come into play

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          I wouldn’t really say that. I would consider it more of an enthusiast distribution. Although it is true that it supports more architectures than most, still it’s main users are just people on normal x86 machines.

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            yeah, it’s definitely for enthusiasts. But it seems like gentoo would be something you would build something on top of, if you know what I mean. I think google does that with chromeOS?