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• ruination@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gentoo lets you do basically whatever you want. The whole idea of it is that you make all the decisions in your system, as opposed to how most distros impose their developers’ choices.

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  • ctr1@fl0w.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep! Gotta love the flexibility of it

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    • ruination@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Really fasttracked my Linux learning experience too. If you’re starting out Linux and are predisposed to masochism like I am, using Gentoo as your first distro really catalysed my understanding of Linux (at the cost of a week’s worth of crying and self-loathing lmao).

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      • ctr1@fl0w.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Totally, props on taking it on as your first distro! Haha, yeah a week of pain sounds about right. My last Gentoo setup took an entire month (off and on), but I was doing something crazy (Qubes-like, every application in its own Gentoo VM, strict SELinux on host and guests)… ended up ditching that because I got comfortable enough with SELinux to write stronger policies for everything important, which is good enough for me.

        I had the benefit of using other distros before trying Gentoo, so my first attempt at it wasn’t so bad (but still took two full days). It’s definitely taught me way more than any other distro, including Arch (although Arch was a very good stepping stone). I don’t think I could go back to anything else at this point

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