Just showing off my desktop. For those curious, I use the XFCE desktop, and ULauncher tied to the windows key. I’m also experimenting with animated wallpapers using hidimari.
Just showing off my desktop. For those curious, I use the XFCE desktop, and ULauncher tied to the windows key. I’m also experimenting with animated wallpapers using hidimari.
I just don’t know if I have the time to maintain a gentoo system lol. I’ve always been interested in it, but I feel like the advantages of it aren’t enough for me to change.
Portage is definitely cool. I think it is inspired by the ports system on FreeBSD, which also lets you choose different compile options, use a stable or newer version of software, etc
Although it is a bit more involved than let’s say Debian/Fedora it is pretty stable, I don’t think I ever had any update that broke something. Especially if you are using stable packages and not unstable. If you update at least once a month, you will probably be fine. But yeah, overall it is a bit of a tinkerer’s distro, especially if you try to do things like compile your own kernel etc.
It’s something that’s interested me before but I don’t think I’m the target audience. I always thought of gentoo as being a meta distribution, or something for embedded system or specific hardware, where gentoo’s strengths really come into play
I wouldn’t really say that. I would consider it more of an enthusiast distribution. Although it is true that it supports more architectures than most, still it’s main users are just people on normal x86 machines.
yeah, it’s definitely for enthusiasts. But it seems like gentoo would be something you would build something on top of, if you know what I mean. I think google does that with chromeOS?