Today is the 13th birthday of my main workstation's @Gentoo Linux amd64 install. 13 years of OS updates across 5 PCs, no reinstalling.
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My only gripes with Gentoo are compile times for bigger things and package availability. I do very much admire it still though, very cool.
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Packages that are the bane of every Gentoo desktop user: Chromium, Firefox, Libreoffice, and like four different WebKit variants.
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Package availability though? Gentoo has a massive selection, plus tons of community overlays, and adding packages is *very* easy!
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I admittedly didn't look much into adding packages. My workaround in some cases was to have a chroot of arch that had everything there.
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I find Arch missing a lot of stuff that Gentoo has in the main repo. If you count AUR it's fine, but Gentoo does compiling better :)
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The latest one that struck me as odd was nut (UPS tools), it's only in AUR. I guess none of the Arch devs owns a UPS? Gentoo has it :P
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Along those lines, do you normally go for the stable packages or the unstable? I found the stable ones fell further behind than I liked.
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On this machine I ran stable for many years, but hundreds of lines of package.keywords later I switched to unstable. Stable on servers.
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Keep in mind that "stable" is relatively conservative. "unstable" packages are normally stable upstream releases.
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