Gentoo user since forever.

The most consistent and long time solid distro, IMHO.

I use it everywhere I can, from servers to laptops. It’s so flexible and predictable that I simply love it.

Nowadays emerging stuff is so fast that I wonder why bother with binary packages at all. Once, when compiling Firefox took DAYS well… But in today’s hardware, meh.

;)

Amazing… Now I sit and wait for somebody to write a web server on top of it…

Gentoo user here.

Of course I always build every package from source because that’s how Gentoo works.

Well, you get well optimized software for your specific cpu and architecture that often will not run on a different CPU. At the cost of lots of time.

For big ones like Firefox or rust I always choose the prebuilt ones… But everything else is from sources.

Also, another great advantage is to customize package features to your likings, like disable an audio backend or enable another, and such.

I think your autocorrect went a bit too far, I cannot understand what you wrote.

Using a different distro feels awkward. I am so used to how stuff is organized in Gentoo :) but it’s still Linux, so no, it’s only minor differences.

(Spcially, i hate when using a SystemD based distro, because i am not used to it and it honestly feels cumbersome compared to OpenRC. Gentoo also has SystemD support, it fully support it, but i never found the need for it, so i never switched, and never got familiar with it. My fault)

Last weekend i setup a laptop from deleting the windows partition to full LXQT desktop in 4 hours. The laptop is quite fast, and i skipped all ocmpiler hogs like firefox (choosed firefox-bin) and rust (choosed rust-bin). Later on, i also installed a full plasma+kde environment in some more 10 hours (all compile time in background, while using the laptop on LXQT).

The biggest downside of Gentoo is being so niche, i always fear that some day it will be abandoned due to too few people maintaining it. I had this fear for the last 10 years, and never happened, so.

There are no real downsides to Gentoo IMHO, except becoming too expert with Linux :)

Really, it’s mostly understand what your are doing and editing text files. Much easier and better documentation than most other distro.

Full time user of Gentoo since 20+ years here. Oll servers, workstations, laptops and even on an android tablet once.

It’s not complicated at all, mostly just different from anything else. And truly configurable to the last bit.

Edit: it seems there aren’t may gentooers here, AMA :)

No, it’s not. The key point is let each tool do its job. Let your reverse proxy do https as it Is intended to do, and will do more securely than your own implementation.

I never trust any random project tls implementation. Just use my nginx reverse proxy https setup that is proven and battle tested.

So yes it make sense and it’s actually a security enhancement, not otherwise.

If you are not willing to setup your own reverse proxy and open your services to the internet, you are the security risk.

Well, now try Gentoo!

It will take a few days of compiling… ;)

Matrix? You can setup an account on a public server without self-hosting it, then access via Linux and android clients.

XMPP as well, but I don’t know if there are public servers

Both cases you can also self host the server. For matrix, avoid synapse and use Continuwuity.

I prefer FluffyChat. Since version 2 is better than before.

Still no matrix client for android as good as any other “proprietary” chats.

For fun, in the 90’s. Windows was cool still, but what Linux was at the time was just fashinating and I just loved it.

It does. Unlock bootliader, flash lineage or just uninstall all Google apps and services.

There you go:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_(company)

Buy Nothing Phones… Un-lockable bootloader without need to even ask for it, very lite and clean AOSP derivate android flavour.

Try a different distro from USB live. As different as possible. It might be a kernel snag or bug and any similar ubuntu might have the same issue…

Even a CLI only one just to test USB-c

T9 is something I definitely do not miss in the slightest

I can’t seems to adapt to any non qwerty layout unfortunately…

Does this hexagon lauout actually help?

Does it work for non-english speakers/writers as well?

It never had data corruption issues in 30+ years on EXT4 either… It doesn’t mean that you had none.

I never felt systemd as addressing any issues I personally had, so meh, I still don’t use it and don’t feel the need for it. Of. Course, this is only my personal choice. Good to have.

Maybe systemd fixed issues for other use cases, so there is that.

Wayland too, but the rel difference is that X has been an unmaintained mess for decades and was designed for different technology. Hard to adapt to modern issues like privacy, security and hardware acceleration. So Wayland is a good way forward, and still backward compatible which is a cool and needed feature too.

While systemd, after decades, I can still do without in all my use cases (personal use laptop, various servers, work workstations, and a largish work laboratory with a few mixed workstations and servers). Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to have. But also yo have choice.