technologicalcaveman

When I have kids and they begin using computers, they’re installing Gentoo with dad.

Portage has everything I need. Especially with overlays, only ones I’ve added were for steam and librewolf.

A coworker of mine was an computer engineer in the early 2000s, but is now a warehouse director. She told me she helped her son build a new pc but it was having heating issues. I asked about fans and she said it only had 2 intake on the front with no exhaust. Told her a local shop that has cheaply priced good fans. She said computers have changed a lot in 20 years. I helped in about a week ago with choosing storage blocks, had no clue nvme even existed.

For me, I don’t care if the software is rough as long as the drivers work. The amd apps were annoying when I was doing things in Windows, but after I got my updates I closed it all out. I don’t plan on interacting with them much.

It’s only been a few weeks, but yeah I noticed that I don’t have to fight my windows as often. Games don’t have issues with odd window layouts either.

I started using linux when I had an nvidia gpu, it worked alright enough. Not many drivers issues, most of my issues were age related for the gpu itself. I did swap to all AMD hardware for my new computer. The swap to AMD is nice. I did upgrade everything from my previous stuff, so no matter what I expected an increase of performance. I do notice that my resource usage is lower and general speed for mundane tasks is better.