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The best operating system. Maximum freedoms, maximum muh ricing, maximum autism. | The best operating system. Maximum freedoms, maximum muh ricing, maximum autism. | ||
There aren't many sensible reasons to use Gentoo anymore. The kind of extra performance you used to get is now null because modern computers are much better than they used to be. Gentoo is an unnecessarily hard OS to use, with no automation out of the box. | {| class="wikitable" | ||
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| Rock solid stability. | |||
| Compiling from source can be slow. | |||
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| Can choose from any package release schedule you want. | |||
| Some people hate not being spoonfed default configurations. | |||
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| Everything is exactly as you customized it to be. | |||
| Users that do not understand GNU/Linux think it's "hard". | |||
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| Allows you to specify which licenses you want to accept by default. | |||
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There aren't many sensible reasons to use Gentoo anymore. The kind of extra performance you used to get is now null because modern computers are much better than they used to be. However, this also has the benefit of making compilation times much faster than they used to be. Gentoo is an unnecessarily hard OS to use, with no automation out of the box. The distro is available as a precompiled stage3 tarball which must be manually extracted, and all programs afterward must be compiled. Because you have to do everything manually, and humans are very prone to mistakes, you will eventually put the OS into an unusable state if you have no idea what you are doing. | |||
The benefits of using Gentoo matter far too little to make it practical for the average user. You will see better performance from everything simply because it is custom-compiled for your system, using only the flags you need. You also know where everything is and how it all connects, because you put it all there. Gentoo is exactly what GNU/Linux, and in essence UNIX, is supposed to be: everything is modular and barebones. You get exactly what you need and nothing else. Too bad what Linux is supposed to be is impractical. | The benefits of using Gentoo matter far too little to make it practical for the average user. You will see better performance from everything simply because it is custom-compiled for your system, using only the flags you need. You also know where everything is and how it all connects, because you put it all there. Gentoo is exactly what GNU/Linux, and in essence UNIX, is supposed to be: everything is modular and barebones. You get exactly what you need and nothing else. Too bad what Linux is supposed to be is impractical. | ||
Revision as of 05:29, 28 January 2014
The best operating system. Maximum freedoms, maximum muh ricing, maximum autism.
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Rock solid stability. | Compiling from source can be slow. |
| Can choose from any package release schedule you want. | Some people hate not being spoonfed default configurations. |
| Everything is exactly as you customized it to be. | Users that do not understand GNU/Linux think it's "hard". |
| Allows you to specify which licenses you want to accept by default. |
There aren't many sensible reasons to use Gentoo anymore. The kind of extra performance you used to get is now null because modern computers are much better than they used to be. However, this also has the benefit of making compilation times much faster than they used to be. Gentoo is an unnecessarily hard OS to use, with no automation out of the box. The distro is available as a precompiled stage3 tarball which must be manually extracted, and all programs afterward must be compiled. Because you have to do everything manually, and humans are very prone to mistakes, you will eventually put the OS into an unusable state if you have no idea what you are doing.
The benefits of using Gentoo matter far too little to make it practical for the average user. You will see better performance from everything simply because it is custom-compiled for your system, using only the flags you need. You also know where everything is and how it all connects, because you put it all there. Gentoo is exactly what GNU/Linux, and in essence UNIX, is supposed to be: everything is modular and barebones. You get exactly what you need and nothing else. Too bad what Linux is supposed to be is impractical.
By using Gentoo, you will soon learn that you spend more time compiling, fixing errors, messing with configs, configuring drivers, and making sure you keep everything up to date while doing all of this stuff again, than you do using the computer. Gentoo is an old dinosaur of an operating system, only used by old dinosaurs of humans and newfags "ricin muh linoox.", on old dinosaurs of computers.
The "install gentoo" meme arose because of the flow of new Linux users that came from Ubuntu's sudden rise in popularity. As more and more people wanted to try out new distributions, they started flocking to "best distro's" threads on /g/. Seasoned Linux users, knowing how difficult Gentoo is to install, pointed newfags to gentoo.org, saying "install gentoo."