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A community for people who love Gentoo and want to discuss it, or ask for advice regarding Gentoo or its' package manager, Portage.

This community is not in any way affiliated with the Gentoo Foundation, but in order to use the Gentoo name, we must conform to the Gentoo Code of conduct, which is incidentally a very reasonable set of guidelines.

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How long have you been using Gentoo? Linux in general? (lemm.ee)

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And why do you prefer it over other distros?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gentoo for 7 Years on and off but I've been using the same install for 5 years now. I wanted to challenge myself and use it as my main OS but I soon found out that it wasn't as hard as people made it out to be and it was actually fun setting up my system from scratch. With the existence of overlays, use-flags and lots of community support there's no reason for me to use another distro, Although I still get the itch to try out openSUSE, Mageia, and FreeBSD once in a while.