Just wanna preface, I’m not trying to like attack Gentoo or anyone that uses it, I just wanna understand lol
I’m like an intermediate Linux user I’m definitely not an expert, and Gentoo is something I’m still quite confused about. To me it just seems unnecessary, like the real version of people making Arch just seem incredibly complicated. Does anyone actually use it as a daily driver? Why? Is it just for the love of the game? Is there some specific use case I’ve not heard or thought of?
Full time user of Gentoo since 20+ years here. Oll servers, workstations, laptops and even on an android tablet once.
It’s not complicated at all, mostly just different from anything else. And truly configurable to the last bit.
Edit: it seems there aren’t may gentooers here, AMA :)
Hallmark of a true gentoo user.
Really, it’s mostly understand what your are doing and editing text files. Much easier and better documentation than most other distro.
It’s certainly not complicated. Just tedious. That said I like the BSD style portage.
These days I tend to run on Arch based distros. Because they are close to those levels of configurability. Just a bit quicker to setup and get to a nice preset. I know there are pre made stages to skip some of the tedious setup for both gentoo and vanilla Arch. But then why not a distro where that’s the base. And some of the sub distros like Garuda provide some really nice configuration tools on top of the base experience.