Is gentoo a good choice? - eviltoast

I mean, is it really worth it to compile every single program that I install? Wouldn’t that be a waste of time? I am inclined to try it out but on the other hand idk

  • Jears@social.jears.at
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    1 year ago

    I am running gentoo on 4 different systems currently.

    Setup can be a bit of a hustle, especially on exotic hardware (one of my devices is a Pine64 Quartz64) but once it’s running maintenance isn’t that big of a deal, an emerge —sync && emerge -avdu @world per week generally is all the maintenance I do.

    Also if you want to learn about linux there is probably no better way except LFS which will not leave you with a system you can easily use in day to day work.

    I say give it a shot if you have the time and are willing to learn and troubleshoot!