Okay /g/. Memes aside, is Gentoo usable as a daily use distro?

>>62242475
see >>51971506

>>62242513
Fuck you.

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>>62242475
Active discussion here fellow Anon
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>>62242513
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>>62242475
I've tried it, I didn't think it was worth the effort. I can see how it can be useful on a more powerful and stationary desktop, but I can't say I loved it on my own t420. No issues, was just a general pain in my ass and needed constant baby sitting. I say stick with parabola, but there's no reason why you shouldn't give it a try. Any questions about gentoo? I can share more about my experience if you'd like.

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I've been using Gentoo on my desktop for about a month now and on my laptop for a couple months.

It's fine for everything I've had to do with it. The only things that are irritating are compile times on a few programs (libreoffice, firefox, chromium), as well as annoying use flag conflicts on certain packages (chromium doesn't like the bindist flag. Portage is also a bit slow at dependency checking.

The OS is pretty stable, I have mostly stable software and a few more up to date packages. It's a lot nicer than Arch, since Arch seems to always have packages with pretty irritating bugs. It's also a lot nicer than Debian because I can upgrade specific packages that I really want to be up to date, like Wine.

They also ship a bunch of alternative kernels, like CK, zen, etc. I tried using the zen kernel on Arch, but it didn't seem to work with nvidia drivers.

>>62243577
>compile times on a few programs (libreoffice, firefox, chromium)
so you can't just download the package for, let's say firefox, and run it out of the box?

>>62245261
obviously you can do that. Gentoo fags are just retarded as fuck and think it will bring them any advantage if they compile it themselfs

>>62245261
You can even install the respective binary versions from the native repositories, called firefox-bin, chromium-bin etc

>>62245261
firefox isn't bad at all for compile times. It's 20 minutes maybe at -j4. I usually distcc it with my server though and do -j18 so it's pretty quick.
Libreoffice I use the bin, as with chromium. Unless you have a very good reason to compile those packages from the source, don't.

>>62245340
Well yeah it does, for example we don't need to have pulseaudio unlike you cucks

>>62242475
> is Gentoo usable as a daily use distro?
no

>>62243577
The first thing you should do after unpacking the stage3 tarball is removing bindist USE from the provided make.conf
There's a bug report about it. The stage3 obviously has to be built with bindist set but it shouldn't be left enabled for end users

>>62247233
>t. someone who has no idea
t. someone who uses it as a daily driver perfectly fine

>>62247416
>t. someone who has no idea
k

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>>62246967
>we don't need to have working audio
top jej
get a load of this goy

>>62247664
>PulseAudio
>good audio system
pick one and use ALSA, dumb frogposter, werks on my machine

>>62242475
I had Gentoo for a week. You think it's all good and fine until you go to update and end up recompiling everything. It's also extremely unstable since it's supposed to be bleeding edge.

Fun in a VM for hobbyists, but not good for actually getting shit done.