Why do you use gentoo?

external ebuilds. up to you, to decide what overlays to use. one of my favourites the pentoo overlay.

Tbh, i did enjoy being able to run/test ffmpeg/vpx's row-mt before it ever hit archfags/debian.

Install Devuan guys !!

WHat do you think about archlinux users ? Their brain is not really well structured, perhaps due to aluminium

>etalabs.ne
This reminds me of a guy who complained that bash was bloat because the scripts he made with it wouldn't work the same way on other system. The reason for that was because he did not RTFM and wasn't aware that a --posix option existed. Much like the gigantic cunts who cry that GNU is bloat everyday and shill for a solution that google and other corporations are shilling themselves which also by a happy coincidence the license of these shilled software are MIT/BSD.

> MANPAGER='grep slow' man bash It's too big and too slow.
Jokes on you, even GNU aknowledges it. Only people who never had to touch someone else's code can accept bloat as easily.

Well, in Gentoo you can use portage to install the git versions of many packages (the ones that have a "9999" version of the package available) but you aren't forced to install unstable versions of all packages.

heh, it sounds like you aren't aware that Glibc has a lot of legacy baggage.

OpenBSD's version of ksh (it's basically the sane version of bash), zsh, fish (I haven't personally used fish but I have heard good things about it) and even dash (if you gotta go fast) are way better than bash.

zsh and fish are faster than bash?

>parted: error while loading shared libraries; libreadline.so.8: cannot open shared object file; No such file or directory
>couldn't even get past the install without a library issue
This is why i use gentoo.

Why? Every time I see "pacman -S" it makes me smile. I heard so many things about pacman breaking the system. And isn't Arch a rolling release distro? Rolling release + binary-based + systemdicks is not a great couple. You could try Devuan or any other distro with stable release model.

There are a lot of things that keep me from using other distros.
I hate arch, but i hate having to crawl 50 thousand different places to get even remotely updated software just the same.
And considering debian is all about those ppas i don't think i'd enjoy devuan at all much either.
That and past experience with distros like linux mint and it's god awful repositories/library issues make me shudder at the thought of binaries.

Gentoo is comfy because i don't have to worry about that, i'll take long compile times over headaches any day.
that and i also was going to use artix to get devkitpro, which for some reason doesn't have an ebuild, but i think I'll just end up compiling it manually.