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| + | There's no sensible reason to use Gentoo anymore. The kind of extra performance you used to get is now null because modern computers are much better than they used to be. Gentoo is an unnecessarily hard OS to use, with no automation out of the box. You have to install and compile everything manually, including the OS itself. Because you have to do everything manually, and humans are very prone to mistakes, you will eventually put the OS into an unusable state. | ||
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| + | The benefits of using Gentoo matter far too little to make it practical. You will see better performance from everything simply because it is custom-compiled for your system, using only the flags you need. You also know where everything is and how it all connects, because you put it all there. Gentoo is exactly what GNU/Linux, and in essence UNIX, is supposed to be. Too bad what Linux is supposed to be is impractical. | ||
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| + | The "install gentoo" meme arose because of the flow of new Linux users that came from [[Ubuntu]]'s sudden rise in popularity. As more and more people wanted to try out new distributions, they started flocking to "best distro's" threads on /g/. Seasoned Linux users, knowing how difficult Gentoo is to install, pointed newfags to gentoo.org, saying "install gentoo." | ||
Revision as of 02:08, 28 January 2014
The best operating system. Maximum freedoms, maximum muh ricing, maximum autism.
There's no sensible reason to use Gentoo anymore. The kind of extra performance you used to get is now null because modern computers are much better than they used to be. Gentoo is an unnecessarily hard OS to use, with no automation out of the box. You have to install and compile everything manually, including the OS itself. Because you have to do everything manually, and humans are very prone to mistakes, you will eventually put the OS into an unusable state.
The benefits of using Gentoo matter far too little to make it practical. You will see better performance from everything simply because it is custom-compiled for your system, using only the flags you need. You also know where everything is and how it all connects, because you put it all there. Gentoo is exactly what GNU/Linux, and in essence UNIX, is supposed to be. Too bad what Linux is supposed to be is impractical.
The "install gentoo" meme arose because of the flow of new Linux users that came from Ubuntu's sudden rise in popularity. As more and more people wanted to try out new distributions, they started flocking to "best distro's" threads on /g/. Seasoned Linux users, knowing how difficult Gentoo is to install, pointed newfags to gentoo.org, saying "install gentoo."
