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phew long answer. I wouldn't call Gentoo unstable. I was rather interested in why it's supposedly more stable then Fedora.
I just wrote from my limited experience. I never had something break on Fedora. I just updated a system from 35 to 41. The stuff that broke was something I compiled against old dependencies. (That's why I didn't update so long)
My Gentoo experience is >15y old. I had numerous incompatibilities, because I used the tools the system gave me. But sure that's on me if I cutomize my system with USE flags. And it's probably better now.
@Mike1576218 @bsergay
I wanna try Gentoo-based Redcore on one of my other machines =^_^=
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redcore
https://redcorelinux.org/
I suppose it's cool. MocaccionoOS is where my interests lie within the Gentoo derivatives. Granted, I'm a sucker for 'immutable' distros.
@bsergay nice, never heard of that distro
Yeah, it's pretty niche. Redcore Linux is definitely (relatively speaking) more mainstream.