The forums are great and in general the Gentoo community just seems much more willing to point you in the right direction. Compared to arch where RTFM just boils down linking a wiki page without further guidance.

Thank you I felt very clever when I came up with it.

I’m sure you could make a “beginner” Gentoo distro but it’s really so counter to its purpose I don’t see it happening.

(something something ChromeOS)

also systemd is just assumed in 99% of Linux tutorials and questions.

with archinstall as part if the ISO now it is genuinely easier to install than most other distros.

Arch is for people who want bleeding edge and the aur. Gentoo is for people who really hate one particular thing that everything tries to use or have a system with very specific requirements.

are there any good tutorials or something for void. I’m very interested because the name is cool but haven’t found a good resource for learning.

did it go well? I have been running gentoo for a month and think I’m done distro hooping but holy hell it took me multiple attempts to properly install it.

NixOS is theoretically great but fucking hell they need better docs.

Gentoo is great. If you want that level of control over your system. But it is not a beginner distro. There are too many nebulous choices and not enough clarity.

What do you define as breaking? I ran arch and cachy and never once had a breaking issue.

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Yeah if you don’t tech a kid how to do something and they don’t learn it themselves they won’t learn it. A lot of kids are way more willing to learn things than people give them credit for because no one is putting in the effort to teach them.

FOSS is great but so much if it has just absolute garbage documentation.

Is there any good tutorials for nixOS? I tried it and felt extremely lost.

The only distro I haven’t had that happen on was gentoo because the thought of reinstalling it makes me go “actually this is fine”

The cachy kernel is surprisingly good. I used it for a few weeks and it was surprisingly noticeable in the games I play.

We have seen where just not caring about someone being the right wing nut job has led. Are we really going to keep using that excuse?