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Does anyone actually use Gentoo? Why?
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I had tried a few distros prior to gentoo but the process of installing and using just felt like windows but off brand for a long time, 5 years later I am learning about this tinkerers distro that you compile everything yourself, that weekend I started with a stage 2 setup disk and brought everything online got comfortable with the emerge lifecycle and have never left since, though I am considering if I want to leave on my next reinstall, if that ever comes, I have heard horror stories about upgrading major versions of Ubuntu that I just don’t experience on gentoo, it’s just the Linux I have used for like 20 years and it has pretty much never let me down, only times it has shat itself on me was my own fault for not reading the newsletters about some major GCC upgrade or some breaking update