Is Gentoo Linux a meme? I was put off by the fact that people who maintain it use macOS. Also if I were to run Gentoo, what configuration is the best? I'm thinking of OpenRC Xorg Pipewire i3.
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>Is Gentoo Linux a meme?
Yes.
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Install Gentoo.
trips of truth
If you compile from source then yes. If you don't then there's not really any point in using it
The installation process is the most meme part. Once you know the basics of portage, using Gentoo isn’t actually that bad.
Oh ok, I get confused about the use flags. People get triggered whenever I put everything in the global use in make.conf.
People got triggered at me for that too. Got real mad that I wasn't using -march=native as well. They refused to understand I had a legitimate use case for having a very general make.conf, namely I had a portable install. So then they started asking wtf I wanted a portable Gentoo install for, to them it seemed like the wrong distro to install that way. But I have my reasons. Bleeding-edge gcc being one of them. Make.conf elitists who don't actually have any idea what they're talking about can suck my dick.
Gentoo has become a meme because, in a sense, it is the "best" distribution you can install on an old desktop/laptop, given the notion of it always compiling everything from source, making the OS highly optimized for these old computers.
People describe it as "slow to compile", well that's because these fellas are installing it on computers with like 2 (or less) gigs of ram.
If you compare it to lets say Arch on these old machines, then you'll notice that performance wise it's slightly superior, but on state of the art hardware, the difference would be hardly noticeable.
And as states, the relative complexity of the installation process attracts people who want to look "hardcore and l33t", even though these days, the majority of IQfyentoo users most likely haven't read the wiki and used some Youtube video as a reference.
>it is the "best" distribution you can install on an old desktop/laptop
Gentoo is a nightmare on old machines, compile times have become unbearable.
wrong.trumpSniff
>the difference would be hardly noticeable.
10% faster is noticeable on modern hardware.
More like 0.00000000000000001%
It's not even hard tbh
Yes. Also Stallman uses Trisquel and not gentoo if you ever seen the copypasta
Also the licensing part is moronic, by default I have to use "*" because if I only use @free, important packages the system needs won't be installed.
I liked it when I used it for a year and a half.
Why did you stop?
I got a new laptop and couldn't be bothered reinstalling. Plus I would've had to figure out the dedicated GPU with bumblebee or whatever the AMD version is so it would get more than 2 hours of battery.
>OpenRC Xorg Pipewire i3.
Try OpenRC, Xorg, ALSA and cwm.
Why ALSA instead of Pipewire?
Also try Fvwm instead of cwm.
>Why ALSA instead of Pipewire?
No dependency on freedesktop cancers, good selection of resamplers and plugins, low latency, light on resources and built into the kernel.
No bluetooth headset support. Sad.
dunno
https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/bluetooth#ALSA
Exactly my choice, you are truly a man of culture.
>fvwm
Too much of a drag decoding its configuration for whistles and assfarts.
you should have a powerfull processor in order to run gentoo comfortably. The whole point is that it's super customizible and that you build everything from source. So you should expect a lot of tinkering. And if your processor isn't the fastest then this tinkering is going to be very delayed. I say try it out if your specs allow it, otherwise use Artix if you want tinkering and no systemd
My processor has 6 cores and 12 threads and 32GB of RAM, what's the highest amount of jobs I could run? I'm currently running at -j12.
balance the jobs and MAKEOPTS
>Is Gentoo Linux a meme?
Yes, don't listen to anyone who claims otherwise. It's overly complicated, with lots of distribution-specific quirks, and, in most cases, offers no practical advantage.
Gentoo only makes sense on some obscure system that require a very unorthodox configuration. However, it makes no sense whatsoever for a typical desktop PC.
It is absoultely a meme but what isn't that I discovered with it is to avoid systemdick
The point of Gentoo is to compile it on a fast computer so you can run it on a slow computer. And have that compilation process be replicable easily and adaptable to other computers you want to run on without wasting hours.
>The point of Gentoo is to compile it on a fast computer so you can run it on a slow computer.
Almost nobody does this, and it's not worth the effort anyway.
Thar would mean you would have to configure it on the powerful computer to work on the old computer then transfer it to the old computer and hope it works...
>Gentoo
>Fast
newbie's baby steps to linux. One day you'll eventually realize that every single linux """distro""" is the same and any differences in performance is prolly due the packages you use and how much memory they utilize. In fact, even this doesn't actually make a difference. Every linux distro runs at the same performance
Fairly true. Gentoo's advantage is teaching you more about C, the relative internals of programs/support/the OS via use flags and a more stable platform in between updates.
You can also break shit in funny ways and it's entertaining and educational to fix it. t. My dwarf fortress install is seg-faulting because of some audio bug and I haven't tracked it down yet.
>Gentoo's advantage is teaching you more about C, the relative internals of programs/support/the OS
How does Gentoo teach you any of this?
t. moron who thinks optimizations don't matter
O2 (what distros use) vs Ofast march=native is 8%.
What do these numbers represent?
>Geometric mean of all test results
In other words, averaged performance score.
And these tests are...?
Here you colossal homosexual: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc11-rocket-opts
It's gentoo. As long as it boosts and you're happy with your work nothing else matters.
Works for me. Just install Gentoo and try it.
Gentoo is unironically kino
I'm using it because it provides very easy customization to my needs and is actually stable