There are reasons why there are so many GNU Linux flavors. Developers of those flavors make choices on the behalf of user (which reminds me of windows). Gentoo doesn’t make decisions for you, but you make decisions for yourself.
FOSS at its roots, is source. You are supposed to build all those softwares you use on your machine. All these pre built distro have given you convenience which you take for granted.
Gentoo is definitely not for a person who can’t afford a beefy machine, and once you have all your softwares and dependencies compiled and ready, you really don’t have to go through that long process again.
Ah, Slackware is such a beast. No dependency management! I wonder how someone would run Gentoo/Slackware as a daily driver, maybe I’m too noob for this
I haven’t run Slackware in two decades, but back then it was sort of like, install almost everything (A, AP,N, etc) at once, have your home on a different partition and nuke-reinstall every four months.
No…the whole idea behind free software is that you can build from source and can even modify and contribute because it’s free. There’s no moral imperative to use CPU cycles and energy to do everything on your own computer.
It is pretty cool that Gentoo’s Portage extends the Ports tree concept to the base operating system, though. I used to use it but at a certain point I decided it was too much of a time suck. I hopped around distros and nowadays use Arch. If I get tired of Arch, it’ll probably be Fedora unless they go the way of Ubuntu and Windows.
I find your outlook very misguided and arrogant.
There are reasons why there are so many GNU Linux flavors. Developers of those flavors make choices on the behalf of user (which reminds me of windows). Gentoo doesn’t make decisions for you, but you make decisions for yourself.
FOSS at its roots, is source. You are supposed to build all those softwares you use on your machine. All these pre built distro have given you convenience which you take for granted.
Gentoo is definitely not for a person who can’t afford a beefy machine, and once you have all your softwares and dependencies compiled and ready, you really don’t have to go through that long process again.
FOSS isn’t about building from source though. It’s about making software accessible without restrictions on who uses it and how it’s used.
By the way Gentoo is also giving you convenience compared to Slackware or building Linux from scratch.
Ah, Slackware is such a beast. No dependency management! I wonder how someone would run Gentoo/Slackware as a daily driver, maybe I’m too noob for this
I haven’t run Slackware in two decades, but back then it was sort of like, install almost everything (A, AP,N, etc) at once, have your home on a different partition and nuke-reinstall every four months.
No…the whole idea behind free software is that you can build from source and can even modify and contribute because it’s free. There’s no moral imperative to use CPU cycles and energy to do everything on your own computer.
It is pretty cool that Gentoo’s Portage extends the Ports tree concept to the base operating system, though. I used to use it but at a certain point I decided it was too much of a time suck. I hopped around distros and nowadays use Arch. If I get tired of Arch, it’ll probably be Fedora unless they go the way of Ubuntu and Windows.