Is Gentoo actaully better than Ubuntu?

>an entire day (or more)
Yeah if you have a C2D and autism

the only thing gentoo is good for is breaking randomly and for autists to spend hours compiling shit so they can get 1 nanosecond faster performance

Gentoo is a meme, it's also a more sane (i.e.: less autistic) version of Source Mage and LFS. It's earned its place as a meme. I would definitely say that Gentoo is miles better than Ubuntu.
no, it absolutely does not. if you are using genkernel, it might take two hours tops.
flags are easy and compiling is well worth the wait, especially considering it doesn't take that long.
no
Gentoo is easily the most stable distribution there is. Don't be retarded.

tfw reading obese goyim who never used Gentoo in their life

Sorry, I didn't read your post carefully. Yes, Gentoo is highly flexible and configurable. If you can manage your time you'll be smart enough to make one time investment and write shell scripts which install and configure Gentoo with flags.

Gentoo is unironically better than bubuntu but it requires an awesome amount of coars to not hate yourself while you wait compiling.

If you want debian use debian, not any of the copy cats. They started at a time that debian was hard to install. They are now useless since debian installs easily.

i installed gentoo, best decish i ever made brah

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anything without systemd is better than ubuntu

Checked. How to install steam on it?

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Dude gentoo is for Windows fags who can’t get over the fact that linux looks too much like Mac, so they took linux and changed GUI to look more like windows, but with cool cutesy stats running everywhere on their haxor machine.

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Gentoo is not a "meme distro".
It's the best and most precious distro you can use.
Just read and follow the handbook and you'll be okay.
Once you get used to it, you'll realize using any other distro would be a downgrade.
It's rolling release and manages to be both stable and up to date.
You can install bleeding edge packages on a stable system without it breaking.
You can install any version of any package in the repo and portage will rebuild what needs rebuilding and update/downgrade what needs updating/downgrading and keep your system consistent.
No such thing as "dependency hells".
You can even have multiple versions of the same package side by side.
Top tier documentation and support.
Large and helpful community (you can always get help on IRC if you run into problems).
Overlays (user repos, Gentoo equivalent of AUR).
Ebuilds (package build scripts) easy to read, edit, write and maintain.
Gentoo offers you freedom of choice, power, control, customization and flexibility unlike any other distro.
Most importantly, it just works, it does what you want and doesn't get in the way.

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>Do you prefer functionality? Go for Ubuntu
lol no
>Are you an autist who wants to fine tune each and every aspect of your OS to post on desktop threads? Then go for Gentoo.
Or if you're just a normal person who wants an up to date, stable, rolling release system with lots of packages and maintainable package format that just works, never breaks and does what you tell it to.
Among other things.

It takes like 30min to install while skimming through the handbook w/o compile time (during which you do something else).
And even if it takes you more, it's worth it.
>its not better than any distro
Pretty much better than any distro I can think of.

Install openSUSE

> I know nothing about linux

the only reason i dont use it is because i still havent been able to figure out how to get kernel modesetting working with my AMD GPU with using free software only.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux,
is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system
that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself;
it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux"
distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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I started installing Linux several years ago (2 or 3) I think I might have a functioning system by the end of 2018.

wrong

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No, you do not.
I respect you for the courage it takes to admit that though

It is faster since it compiles everything optimized for your processor.

Since it's much more complex to setup than Ubuntu, whether it's better or not depends on what the user wants from it.

If you like manual labor, gentoo is great.
If you want something that puts 'operating' in 'operating system' you get any popular distro like ubuntu.

You can't remove systemd from Ubuntu so yes gentoo is actually better and worth setting up.

>lol no
Lol yes
>or if you are a normal person
Lol no. If you are a normal person just use Windows. Gentoo is for autists who want to pretend to be smart.

Why do you need a fully packed kernel that supports hardware you don't have? Why do you need DRM support in Firefox if you don't use any DRM services, etc? Gentoo is the most sane operating system there is

>entire day
>Core 2 Duo
It only took me 4 hours to get the base system ready on my shitty e7400
you incompetent fucks must be jacking off to porn in the mean time forgetting about your OS install

So you don't have autism, at least not the kind that prevents OS installations.

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Pentoo, which is basically Gentoo with their own penetration testing overlay, comes with its easy installer. Even adding the hardened toolchain and full disk encryption from the installer. Can't really get any easier installing a secure Gentoo setup from there.

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wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam

Nice trips...
Emacs user, must be a proper faggot!

If you care about productivity use ubuntu, if you want to look like a l33t hacker use gentoo.

Ooph
10points for linus

>I use Gentoo
is like saying
>Sublime Text? gEdit? Nah, man -- I'm an Emacs guy.
>Office? Nah, man. I'm a LATEX dude. Heh.
>Title bars? Task bars? Get outta here, dude. I use i3 -- you'd better not f*** with me.

What's wrong with that m8?

i3 is more of an arch-tard thing

Why would it be if i3 is packaged for all major distros

It depends on what you want your computer to be like.
If you want it to "just werk", install ubuntu. You can do almost everything you can do on Gentoo on ubuntu, too.
If you have lots of time and want details to be like you want them to be and not how ubuntu developers want them, you install gentoo. Another bonus for gentoo: you don't have to upgrade every half year and watch everything you set up break, like it often happens on ubuntu.

Its a meme but in a good way. As long as you have any experience in linux you should be fine installing and using it.

Good luck, AMD requires BLOBs for every GPU since forever

Fake. Linus probably wouldn't like it if he knew you were attributing shit to him that he never said or wrote.

>be KDE Neon user
>apt
>ubuntu's repositories and support
>rolling releases
>KDE Plasma stable and intuitive

>ubuntu's repositories and support
>rolling releases
Nice contradiction

those aren't related, retard

What do you mean? Ubuntu doesn't have rolling releases, so you're not using the ubuntu repos if you do.

so then im actually secretly being jewed on the "free open source" amd drivers?

In terms of free drivers, it's like this:
AMD/ATI always require blobs for anything besides the most basic vesa modes
Intel requires a VGA bios, but there are some reverse engineered clones of that for some cards - if you use coreboot
Nvidia with nouveau works mostly without blobs and only requires one for hw video decoding

Hell yes it is, currently installing gentoo for the third time just to learn the process. Installing onto an old samsung N130 notebook for shits, doing it over SSH to learn the process and because that think is irritating to use with its small screen and keyboard. Contrary to popular belief Gentoo is not really hard to install and use, after a few times configuring the kernel and compiling and installing shit with portage its just like any other linux distro except its is faster, cleaner and give a lot more freedom. Pretty much anything will work on Gentoo with a bit of configuring and needed dependencies, I had not problems installing steam through an overlay and getting GTA V working perfectly to my surprise (thanks value) Give it a go, I came from linux mint then Arch linux and I've not looked back.

no wonder it was much easier to get nvidia cards with nouveau drivers working on gentoo then.

sudo vim /etc/portage/package.use/

can you tell gentoo to use clang instead gcc?

wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Clang
Yes, but I'm not sure *you* can, seeing as you're having trouble using an online search engine, you idiot.

>Gnome
>Functional

Thanks for the laugh, user

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