Peter via Dng said on 28 Dec 2024 10:41:21 -0700

>What are the principal aspects against Gentoo for you? Ongoing
>requirements of maintenance time?

As a guy who thoroughly tested Gentoo and Funtoo as possible escape
mechanisms from SystemD in 2014, let me answer that:

* Compiling every update takes a long time.

* Messing with compile flags bestow many opportunities to introduce
bugs, crashes, etc.

* Installation is a time consuming process, at least on bare metal.

* Installation includes configuring and compiling your kernel, which,
if done wrong, requires you to either do the whole install again or
invoke your skills in chroot-foo. If you're anything like me, the
backward-referring relative thought patterns of chroot installations
is error prone.

* Modern Gentoo comes with sYSTEMd, so Systemd has its camel nose in
the tent, and how long before they give up on OpenRC (which isn't all
that good itself)?

Gentoo is for a very specific type of ultrageek who wants complete
control over everything all the time. It is not, in my opinion, a
general purpose distro.

HTH,

SteveT

Steve Litt

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