Mastodawn

i like gentoo
not just the os but the community
it's mostly older guys but it couldn't be further from the techbro circlejerk these spaces usually turn into
the philosophy of the os is every configuration is encouraged and supported no matter how much it deviates from defaults or from the mainstream
this translates into how humans are treated
gentoo people actually genuinely care, about ethics, about diversity, about people's niche use cases, many of them use older hardware and make sure it stays supported, there's a class aspect to that too you know

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elly

@lizzy I switched back to Gentoo after Fedora started pushing for LLM nonsense. It's been 5 years since I left, but it's good to be back.

1. Not having to deal with muh licensing, hardware decoding/encoding in ffmpeg just works without having to re-compile half of your system (well, technically you compile your entire system but you get the idea)
2. Much easier/cleaner to roll your own kernel (config, patches) and create "packages" (rpmspec is such a disaster)
3. Not having to deal with packages that were abandoned years ago (libimobiledevice on Fedora hasn't been updated in years so it no longer works, ioquake3 version in Fedora repos is from 2011), list goes on...

I should document getting chromebook audio to work on the wiki (which is probably the best resource for learning how Linux works outside of LFS, it's incredibly well written and easy to understand, basically state of the art in my opinion). In other words: Gentoo folks are absolutely based

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implr 3d ago

@elly @lizzy
re 2., /etc/portage/patches is the greatest invention in the history of linux packaging
on servers and hands-off machines i use nixos nowadays, but gentoo remains undefeated in the field of Enabling Weird Fuckery.
making every program on your system print meow on malloc is one text file away, you can just do things