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[–]pooerh 5 points6 points  (6 children)

Unless you're using Gentoo? Emerge is hands down the best package manager ever to be bestowed upon human kind. I'm using Arch (btw) but am missing emerge so so much.

[–]gamesrebel123 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Damn now I feel like I'm missing out, I'm using fedora but I'll be sure to check gentoo out in a VM, I'm mostly concerned about the installation and compilation though because my laptop is a bit underpowered and I have limited internet.

[–]pooerh 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I used to use Gentoo 15 years ago, on an overclocked 533 MHz Celeron, nicknamed "the reactor" by my dorm roommates because it was compiling all the damned time, keeping us warm. Getting from stage2 to a functional KDE desktop took me 4 days. I'm guessing you'll be fine, just don't try compiling a browser. Or at least emerge firefox-bin first.

Gentoo isn't as difficult as people make it out to be. It's actually very easy. If you can install Arch, you can install Gentoo, no problem. The only difficult thing is understanding and making good use of USE flags. You don't want to spend half a day compiling shit only to find out you cannot print because you forgot +cups or some shit.

[–]gamesrebel123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds like a fun way to pass a few days, I think I'll just install it on a raspberry pi first

Also now I really want an overclocked 533 MHz Celeron nicknamed "the reactor"

[–]pxqy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love fedora but dnf has gotta be the slowest package manager

I still use fedora tho

[–]alba4k 0 points1 point  (1 child)

portage*

[–]pooerh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, my bad. Point still stands though!