Gentoo user since forever.

The most consistent and long time solid distro, IMHO.

I use it everywhere I can, from servers to laptops. It’s so flexible and predictable that I simply love it.

Nowadays emerging stuff is so fast that I wonder why bother with binary packages at all. Once, when compiling Firefox took DAYS well… But in today’s hardware, meh.

;)

I use darktable, it’s open source and good for my needs, but indeed bit rough.

Ottimo! Si é una bella lingua, sulla cultura non mi espirmo, non posso essere considerato proprio un italiano tipico.

Grande!

Italian here…

Yes I do.

Everybody loves him, super nice person, always available, always has the right answer.

I see he is a manipulative person with emotional issues that keeps everything always compressed inside.

Gentoo user here.

Of course I always build every package from source because that’s how Gentoo works.

Well, you get well optimized software for your specific cpu and architecture that often will not run on a different CPU. At the cost of lots of time.

For big ones like Firefox or rust I always choose the prebuilt ones… But everything else is from sources.

Also, another great advantage is to customize package features to your likings, like disable an audio backend or enable another, and such.

Navidrome + tempo (or any other subsonic clients)…

And spotizerr to fetch from deezer/Spotify once. Or Slskd for a nice soulseek experience

I think your autocorrect went a bit too far, I cannot understand what you wrote.

Using a different distro feels awkward. I am so used to how stuff is organized in Gentoo :) but it’s still Linux, so no, it’s only minor differences.

(Spcially, i hate when using a SystemD based distro, because i am not used to it and it honestly feels cumbersome compared to OpenRC. Gentoo also has SystemD support, it fully support it, but i never found the need for it, so i never switched, and never got familiar with it. My fault)

Last weekend i setup a laptop from deleting the windows partition to full LXQT desktop in 4 hours. The laptop is quite fast, and i skipped all ocmpiler hogs like firefox (choosed firefox-bin) and rust (choosed rust-bin). Later on, i also installed a full plasma+kde environment in some more 10 hours (all compile time in background, while using the laptop on LXQT).

The biggest downside of Gentoo is being so niche, i always fear that some day it will be abandoned due to too few people maintaining it. I had this fear for the last 10 years, and never happened, so.

There are no real downsides to Gentoo IMHO, except becoming too expert with Linux :)

Really, it’s mostly understand what your are doing and editing text files. Much easier and better documentation than most other distro.

Full time user of Gentoo since 20+ years here. Oll servers, workstations, laptops and even on an android tablet once.

It’s not complicated at all, mostly just different from anything else. And truly configurable to the last bit.

Edit: it seems there aren’t may gentooers here, AMA :)

Well, now try Gentoo!

It will take a few days of compiling… ;)

It took a few years, a good therapist and an amazing new relationship…

I have no idea which part of the world you live, but here nothing of that is true most of the time.

That would be a love story between a first year and a last year student. Maybe unusual, but mostly doomed to last 3 months at best.

Indeed a 17-19 is more common, and 18-19 quite common, but I wouldnt worry too much. Monitor yes, specially if the 16yo is somebody I care for/of.

But child abuse? That’s a bit stretched.

In my experience, a 19yo male is as mature as a 16yo female… (Well, maybe, not always…)

A 16yo male would be significantly less mature than a 16yo female…

What I mean is that male and female mature differently and boys grow up later than girls. I would see as puzzling a 19yo female dating a 16yo male.

16-19? Not pedophilia. Not literally nor legally, move on.

Pedophilia means being attracted by somebody who does not show sexual maturity yet, and I strongly doubt that I the case (I have a 16yo daughter, so…). And laws, usually, have clear exceptions for similar ages people like this, as it’s expected and quite normal. I mean given how stupid males are at that age, he being 3y older alny means they are closer than two 16yo.

Are they both in school? Is there some power imbalance or abuse? Otherwise, move on and let them live their lives.

Honestly, after some time, I just started realizing how shitty reddit posts are, and specially how toxic comments and the overall environment is…

So, i don’t miss it.

For fun, in the 90’s. Windows was cool still, but what Linux was at the time was just fashinating and I just loved it.

Nothing phone here, stock is as close to AOSP as it gets across the board.