Asklemmy

42525 readers

1104 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

126 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love gentoo, but for different reasons:

incredible flexibility in package versions. I can install multiple versions of a package, or install an old version of a package without incompatibility issues
can mix between rolling release (arch-like) and fixed / stable releases (fedora-like) on the individual package level
can very easily create packages not in the repos and treat them as first class
super easy to add and manage patches
global management of compile flags and options
packages in portage are not only programs. You can let portage manage other things, such as users or configurations
support for less common architectures or setups, like using musl, arm, clang, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Very true, what OP said barely matters nowadays but the features you listed definitely give Gentoo an edge over most other distros.

Also, we gotta shout out the sheer stability of gentoo and honestly having to compile system packages isnt that bad if you use flatpak.