Gentoo Linux & Portage Package Manager

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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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I just started using it in the past month or so. I doubt I'll ever go back to any other distro. I tried it once in the past but gave up because I didn't have the time to actually learn it. Now that I have it's amazing. I like having control over not only what packages get installed (ala Arch) but also what is contained in those packages.

It's been a lot of fun learning and renewed my love for computing.

Edit: been using Linux for about 20 years now. Started with Ubuntu