Swagtoy
Curious boy. Also SuperTux dev. I also contribute to other projects that interest me in my spare time like EFL, Gentoo (mostly GNOME), and some others... :)
WARNING: THIS SWAG IS NOT A TOY.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems It's always been my favorite distro... it has taught me a ton about Linux and still does everyday...
- Very very nice for debugging things and testing patches. This is one of the main reasons I love source based distros; portage just automates a lot of it :)
- Ports-tree like, so rather easy to package/work with.
- Portage is wonderful
- Superb documentation. I'd say gentoo tooling has the best documentation ive seen of any distribution.
- Love it's openness for portability; though ive mostly owned amd64 for my life ':D i still believe portability is very important...
- I truly love learning, and gentoo has certainly helped me do that.
- ..Very fun community. fkin love the community :)
- Seriously, i think i love contributing more than using it :) Everyone is friendly and good fun
More, but the list would get too long :)
@barthalion@social.treehouse.systems I agree with his flatpak/appimage points; maintain what you can, but:
Think about what it costs us as a society for you to be recompiling every package you install on Gentoo. For every ridiculous declarative config you HAVE to make yourself on NixOS
To be fair, I'm not sure why the hostility... a lot of gentoo, nixOS... debian, whatever people are usually contributing fixes, tests, and bug reports back upstream when they can, which I would be inclined to argue is still 'valuable'... this bit alone almost completely invalidates the entire argument because he thinks the fragmentation as a whole is "pointless" and "valueless", when... honestly, its really not; people who work with linux are still here to please themselves, after all, and usually those medding in their own territories would be expected to have to help themselves, anyway.
What a childish article, really.