I can’t even feel superior to everyone when theirs so many arch installers!! I use real arch btw. I thought “I guess I should go to Gentoo” but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER!

I feel like we only have two options now

  1. Ascend to BSD-land
  2. Ironically supporting Windows Unironically

edit: I have decided to replace my debian laptop with BSD

  • msage@programming.dev
    1·
    3 days ago

    Really?

    I never tried Arch, so I can’t compare.

    Apart from initramfs from install, which took more time, it felt like everything else just worked. Including installing Steam.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Really?

      Yes. Gentoo really is like that compared to arch.

      I never tried Arch, so I can’t compare.

      Oh.

      Specially coming from Arch it should be a breeze.

      That^ made it seem to me like you had.

      • msage@programming.dev
        2·
        3 days ago

        I just read a lot of Wiki.

        But when I discovered how cool it is to compile stuff, I went straight to Gentoo, assuming it’s mostly the same apart from packaging.

        • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Before I tried gentoo (or rather sabayon, for 3 years before gentoo proper), from all the “you have to compile everything”, I imagined that as a lot of running “make”. I didn’t realise it’s even easier1 than other package managers.

          1 emerge is shorter to type than e.g. apt-get install

          • msage@programming.dev
            1·
            2 days ago

            Yeah, it’s insane how easy to use Gentoo is.

            Nobody will take it from me. But I admit to only using it on desktop, laptop is using Mint. If I ever find time to play around with a build server, I will try switching there, too.