Linux Distro Finder
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The Linux ecosystem is vast, fragmented, and notoriously opinionated. That is precisely why I built an interactive Linux Distro Finder.
    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      That’s cool. What does Gentoo do better than Arch in your opinion? Any category! 🙂

      • cadekat@pawb.social
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        2 days ago

        I haven’t used Arch in a long time, but from what I remember…

        Arch and Gentoo are both rolling releases, but Gentoo is rolling stable while Arch is bleeding edge.

        If you game, you can’t beat being able to drop kernel patches in a folder and have them applied on every update. Works for all packages, not just the kernel.

        GURU has a bit more oversight than the AUR, but not as many packages.

        • Victor@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          I’m thinking Arch is definitely for me, then:

          • I prefer bleeding edge. No delay, things haven’t broken my system in a decade, seems like it’s fine for personal use anyway.
          • I don’t need any kernel patches as a heavy gamer, my system can run whatever you throw at it.
          • The AUR seems to have a far simpler and less convoluted process for contributing than GURU.

          Still, I’m curious: what kernel patches do you feel the need to apply, as a gamer?

          • cadekat@pawb.social
            2·
            1 day ago

            You can enable the bleeding edge too, if you like. The repos have multiple versions of packages.

            I need the bigsceen beyond patches for better VR support.

            I’ve never contributed to the AUR, so I can’t really compare. GURU does have a bit of process in exchange for some oversight, but there are completely unmoderated overlays too.

            That’s completely fair! I think pacman is a much nicer to use package manager than emerge, and Arch has a great community :3