how did they catch her?

iirc using precompiled binaries means u don’t get USE flags, which was one of the big attractions of Gentoo. and u still have to dispatch-config …

I’ve never paid more than $150 for a phone

I’m contemplating buying a fair phone and going de Googled android. that will cost a bit more and take a little bit more time …

i think ur talking about the Linux console. don’t bother customizing that. install kde or whatever gui u use. then open the terminal (e. g. konsole or gnome-terminal). ur zoom shortcuts should work out of the box now.

too bad u switched already. u were one command away from having the gui

the 100kb u save from the right use flags is nullified by the hundreds of mb needed to have the entire build tool chain on your system. there are dedicated distros for embedded systems that are much better suited. like alpine Linux. or LFS. (IIRC with LFS u can get the entire system installed 2 or 3 MB)

sounds like you might need to run reflector, and then update all packages

I used Gentoo for a few years. I don’t recommend it at all!

first off, there are no tangible advantages. it’s not faster. it is more customizable (by use flags), but the only tangible advantage of those is bragging rights saying you kept a certain library off your system and saved 100kb. just enabling all features is more practical.

there are tangible disadvantages. a big system upgrade can take days. and often fails. and, the manual time you spend merging config files with dispatch-config is large.

I switched from Gentoo to debian after 3y of using Gentoo. i switched from debian to arch after about 10y later. been on arch for about 6y now. would not recommend Gentoo

I had a similar problem some time ago. in my case the nvme drive was overheating and stopped working. led to full system freezes…