April 7th, 2020 at 2:52 AM
(April 7th, 2020 at 2:16 AM)Darth-Apple Wrote: Gentoo is the hardest distribution of them all... You're on the deep end using that distribution.
literally not even lmao, try LFS or any bsd lmao
maybe buster is finally catching up, debian9 was awful, the stable version of qt was on 1.9 when 1.16 was the latest, and most qt applications (and latest kde plasma) wouldnt compile because of the dependency mismatch. made me wanna just not try it anymore and move onto something i can have more control over.
but yeah when everything is tested so extensively (i.e. 3yrs of testing) then yeah its gonna be stable. never actually had it crash on me when i had it installed, until i switched to testing branches and a bad grub update f*** my bootloader and i needed to boot with chainloader/efi recovery terminal. never again.
and gentoo gives you that control by portage compiling all packages itself instead of just installing binaries like apt and yum. plus specifying compiler optimization flags, managing separate versions, playing with dependencies, etc. its very comfy and my OS uses less than 200mb of RAM on idle
