• StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 hours ago

    Well I don’t hear much about Gentoo, Damn Small, Puppy or Knoppix anymore. Wonder if they still exist.

    I haven’t done much disto hopping since I settled on Ubuntu around ‘08 and then on NixOS last year. I like my systems working when I need them and waiting around for a new install to finish is boring to me.

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      1 hour ago

      I think NixOS has taken a bit of Gentoo’s mindshare. They solve similar problems with very different approaches.

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        53 minutes ago

        How so? When I switched to NixOs I was looking for system stability over time. That’s not really something I associate with Gentoo, at least not on a desktop system.

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      4 hours ago

      Gentoo still exists. Damn Small was dead for a decade but has risen again recently. Puppy is alive and well. Knoppix is still alive, but the last downloadable release is almost 4 years old.