I can’t even feel superior to everyone when theirs so many arch installers!! I use real arch btw. I thought “I guess I should go to Gentoo” but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER!

I feel like we only have two options now

  1. Ascend to BSD-land
  2. Ironically supporting Windows Unironically

edit: I have decided to replace my debian laptop with BSD

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    31·
    4 days ago

    Gentoo is easy and almost user-friendly.

    Specially coming from Arch it should be a breeze.

    Less prone to randomly biting your head off anyway.

    More tame.

    Takes more petting though, to get it to settle.

    • msage@programming.dev
      1·
      4 days ago

      Really?

      I never tried Arch, so I can’t compare.

      Apart from initramfs from install, which took more time, it felt like everything else just worked. Including installing Steam.

      • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Really?

        Yes. Gentoo really is like that compared to arch.

        I never tried Arch, so I can’t compare.

        Oh.

        Specially coming from Arch it should be a breeze.

        That^ made it seem to me like you had.

        • msage@programming.dev
          2·
          3 days ago

          I just read a lot of Wiki.

          But when I discovered how cool it is to compile stuff, I went straight to Gentoo, assuming it’s mostly the same apart from packaging.

          • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Before I tried gentoo (or rather sabayon, for 3 years before gentoo proper), from all the “you have to compile everything”, I imagined that as a lot of running “make”. I didn’t realise it’s even easier1 than other package managers.

            1 emerge is shorter to type than e.g. apt-get install

            • msage@programming.dev
              1·
              3 days ago

              Yeah, it’s insane how easy to use Gentoo is.

              Nobody will take it from me. But I admit to only using it on desktop, laptop is using Mint. If I ever find time to play around with a build server, I will try switching there, too.