Gentoo hate thread
Come in and tell me what you hate about gentoo and why these fucking shill should already fuck off and get the fuck out with their shitty distro.
I start:
With Gentoo you can't be productive because in the time others get work done you still compile.
Install Gentoo
> With Gentoo you can't be productive because in the time others get work done you still compile.
Prequisites:
1. You didn't have the required software already, which is unlikely after even some days or months of actually using Gentoo
2. Your machine is an ancient potato laptop that can't compile for shit, and you picked THAT for Gentoo.
Apart from that:
> Starting whining threads on french orgy forums, complaining about how productive you are without Gentoo
most of the people memeing about installing gentoo are winbabs spouting stuff they heard to fit in (just like most of the GNUtards on Sup Forums (but unfortunately not all of them).
it is a great linux distribution though I do not have the impression most of the users shill it much
Stop bullying the autists.
They're not bothering anyone.
I like gentoo
>work done
>shitposts on Sup Forums
kys
Need to get shit done by noon
>Shit better install that distro that takes 2 days to compile, that's a good idea
>12h into compiling KDE
>Wow fuck this shit takes too fucking long
OpenRC+SSD+R.T.K.+KDE=Fucking ca$h
>in the time others get work done you still compile
>in the time others get work done, you still are shitposting on Sup Forums
>2 days to compile
I installed Gentoo on my Pentium D box and everything built in less than a day.
>using KDE
If you wanted a broken pile of shit, you probably should have just gone with Ubuntu
(OP)
I hate nothing about Gentoo, it is a meme, but it is a distro that some would find useful. Not useful to me or to you, but to some people it is, and that makes it okay.
This sounds very much like the fox and grapes
>I hate nothing about Gentoo
You've clearly never used Gentoo
>portage is written in python so using pip as root can break it
>portage is so awful that there are a number of projects, such as eix and palidus, which perform part of portage's functionality
>Gentoo didn't have PIE enabled on the non-hardened branch until recently and that update required a full system rebuild
>Gentoo took forever to merge GCC 6.4 into the tree even as a package marked unstable
I like Gentoo and use it regularly, but god damn portage is awful. I tried Palidus out once, but the front end was really confusingly designed, then I got bored and gave up.
Usually you'd have Gentoo setup before you're in a situation where you need things done in a certain time period
Honestly I just wish they'd port it to to anything but Python. I understand it's convenient but it gets sloooooooooooooow
>I have a low opinion of Gentoo GNU/Linux.
>Gentoo is a GNU/Linux distribution, but its developers don't recognize this; they call it "Gentoo Linux". That means they are treating me and the GNU Project disresepectfully.
>More importantly, Gentoo steers the user towards nonfree programs, which is why it is not one of our recognized free distros.
Why do you only start compiling when you need to work? Do you rate your favorite distro's on how quickly you can install them so you can start working? Do you use Ubuntu live usb as your daily driver? When you go to work do you try to find a laptop to do your work on after you arive?
Personally I prefer to prepare myself and my equipment for whatever needs to be done.
>If you wanted a broken pile of shit, you probably should have just gone with Ubuntu
KDE is comfy as fuck, learn how to useflag and it never breaks. And the two day shit was in green text you aspie fuck, it was irony towards the uberfaggot known as OP. Took about 20h to compile everything on a very loaded system when the 6.4 rolled out.
Wall St uses Gentoo
Only thing though: fuck ninja. That broken piece of shit never survives updates
> portage is written in python so using pip as root can break it
Not easily, but sure you can. It also relies on bash at times, so if you break bash that can also break portage.
If you break it, just fix it. And try not to be an idiot and break it, eh.
> portage is so awful that there are a number of projects
Hurr. It's pretty good and it inspired people to try and make something better... turns out they didn't really manage to.
> Gentoo didn't have PIE enabled on the non-hardened branch until recently and that update required a full system rebuild
Reasonable decisions, both not enabling PIE the moment it was available and enabling it conservatively now.
> Gentoo took forever to merge GCC 6.4 into the tree even as a package marked unstable
Because you are talking of unstable, not testing. In unstable things already need to compile and largely work on the developer's machines.
This does actually quite often delay GCC since just about every damn release there are rather many widespread packages that will not compile. None of portage's fault, though.
Wtf I hate gentoo now
fpbp
>kde
found your problem
Never used it so i cant bash it.
>Not easily, but sure you can. It also relies on bash at times, so if you break bash that can also break portage.
I've never seen a distro ship with a big warning to not use a standard use case of bash as root. The Gentoo wiki has a big warning telling you not to use pip as root or you will break portage.
>turns out they didn't really manage to
eix is able to search orders of magnitude faster than emerge --search. I'd call that a success.
As far as Palidus goes, the main motivation is that portage is unmaintainable, slow, spaghetti code. I don't know if it's any worse than portage; the only issues I had were with the front end.
>Reasonable decisions
It's taken them longer than many other distros to enable PIE by default. it should just be a standard security measure at this point.
>None of portage's fault
GCC 6.4 and later didn't need to be able to compile packages. They could have merged them into the tree and masked them with a "masked for testing" message.
>tfw you set up an @world, hit the casino, make some burgurbucks, and still compiling when you get home
people with reasonable opinions aren't welcome here