Comments complaining how everything takes time to compile in Gentoo are kind of funny, do you really need everything to be installed asap?
That being said, Gentoo indeed is not for everyone. I’ve been using it for +15 years and am really happy with it - almost zero maintenance and it’s super stable. The crux is the time it takes to be installed and people hold a weird grudge against it just for that.
But at the same time there are more distros oferring pretty much the same, i.e. your own arch.
At my uni they go to the extreme where not only one gets around 20-30 mails DAILY but now to go check your email, which is gmail-based, it hops first into a Cloudflare human verification page that you can never pass in Falkon because it keeps looping after you check the human verification
And Ford beat the entire world into a 48h workweek
I have a picture with one of my dogs. He’s very cute. But there must be something going on with me as I never got any single match. Pretty sure he’d get many matches, though
A few days ago I saw a post on c/opensource@lemmy.ml about “an alternarive to KDE Connect”, and the rationale to wanting “an alternative to KDE Connect” was that it “makes you download a lot of other software that you don’t really need”. Which it’s just the required Qt stuff. imho that’s plain ridiculous.
Given the high upvote count you can guess people just think about GTK as the default and every other toolkit as “software you don’t really need”.
Never got into the tiling wm craze, but since I found out about Gnome’s PaperWM thought it was much better than tiled and traditional wms and wanted something like that for KDE. Even was thinking about doing it by myself until one day learned someone else did it and much better than I would
There is no task that “requires zero dogs” but OOP is too dumb to realize. All tasks require at least one dog looking serious at it.
I don’t even use Arch btw but feel like OpenBSD fanboys would relate more to this
I have absolutely no idea how “Linux” is supposed to be pronounced. True story.
I thought for a sec this was calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world, anyone knows what happened to it? It’s been a week since the bot posted something there
Giving not enough treats?
How rich of you to think us Linux users have someone to talk to.
Of course not (but some would claim it is for today’s standards), it’s better than nothing. I’m actually thankful for the thing, took years of beating and went like a champ
No that I could tell - but mostly I switched to it because before it I used to use Ubuntu, and got fed trying to uninstall stuff I didn’t actually need and it attempted to yolo a whole bunch of neccessary packages with it. It didn’t had much storage either (120 GB) so that mattered a bit.
But I switched mostly because I didn’t had internet at home or, when I could have it, it was completely shit: a 3G modem that went with no signal at all at any moment, not even moving it a single milimeter.
Trying to update Ubuntu offline was a huge pain in the ass: I needed to go to an internet cafe nearby, or at uni, and download the packages for the updates one by one (like, searching each one in packages.ubuntu, going to the results page, then picking the distro release, then picking architecture…), burn them to a CD or copy them to a usb stick and go back home to install them… only for it to tell me it was now needing some other bunch of packages, so rinse and repeat. I could do that even like 3 or 4 more times to update just a single frigging app - it was that or having to wait for a new Ubuntu release, and soon Canonical would end that program where they sent people an original Ubuntu CD to their address completely for free (iirc it was about 9.04/9.10 when they finished it). A couple of times I was so frustrated I carried the whole PC to a internet cafe to be able to update stuff I needed asap (new features on GIMP or Inkscape that would make my life easier).
Whereas with Gentoo it already had the --fetchonly flag, so you could just ran emerge with it and it would tell you absolutely everything you needed, so I could parse that output with sed or something to get all the package URLs and go to another computer with an internet connection and download them with some other tool, everything at once. I could then bring them home and update the thing in a single command. Of course it could take time to compile stuff but the updating process was much easier to me. So think like an IP over Avian Carriers or Sneakernet situation.
(Edited because of crappy grammar)
Believe it or not due to third world issues I went with all of uni and part of my graduated life (2008-2016/17) with a crappy Intel Pavilion DV2000 which had Core2Duo and 3GB on RAM. With Gentoo. It went just fine for most daily stuff and some of my work as a graphic designer.
Pretty sure there should be some nonprofit that will gladly get and assemble them so i.e. children on remote places can have a computer.