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[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 months ago

All Fedora systems are well-administered in the same way, but every broken Gentoo installation is broken differently.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm just circlejerking really. Both have their niches. Fedora is solid. I've never had a botched update (meanwhile, my Windows machine at work gets stuck in a boot loop every other update). When I'm doing tech support for people, it is the first OS I reach for. It's also great for machines that you don't use regularly (low maintenance). I personally have a lot of tech related hobbies from software development to astronomy to ham radio. I originally decided to switch from Fedora to Gentoo to run a kernel with the older iptables firewall instead of nftables (because Docker took a while to transition and Fedora likes to introduce the newest shit immediately, which is usually a good thing).

My shit is definitely broken in unique ways, but it's functional in unique ways as well. Someday I will switch to Guix and have a machine which is broken deterministically.

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 months ago

I've been wanting to try guix/nix but it just seems like a lot of commitment. They aren't supported in distrobox either which makes it harder to get a feel for the distro. And due to selinux differences I can't use nix on its own on my fedora-derived os anyway. Very annoying.

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