I ran Gentoo on our Ryzen 5800X computer… But we had to stop with that because after all my tinkering we didn’t have a usable enough system capable of doing the things we needed, like running Steam.

I have developed a love/hate relationship with portage. It’s very powerful letting you get at all the compiler flags. I like that. But it was too unwieldy also and parts of it felt a little outdated.

What I need for my workstation is something that is very powerful and efficient but also highly robust and stable enough to serve as the base for all my usages.

Maybe I’ll try Funtoo. Thought about NixOS or something but don’t want to do that really.

Looks like the creator of Gentoo has a YouTube: Daniel Robbins / BDFLFUN2

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I have lots of success with Gentoo.

    You may want to consider a Gentoo respin for your convenience.

    • Calculate was still good last time I looked.
    • And there’s Daphile now too, which I’ve yet to try.
    • Redcore went janky last I saw.
    • Sabayon went janky and discontinued.
    • Toorox was brilliant, but discontinued.
    • CloverOS was brilliant, but discontinued.
    • Oh! And there’s decibellLinux worth a go if you’re heavily into audio production stuff.

    What did you end up using?

    I hope your last post reply didn’t get you into trouble too. ~ Went quiet after that.

    PS, The one time I stopped using Gentoo since I started, I used Devuan, to keep things simple during the most stressful time of my life. “for my workstation is something that is very powerful and efficient but also highly robust and stable enough to serve as the base for all my usages.”