• m4@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Gentoo comes with OpenRC as default so I roll with it. And it’s simple and it works.

    Plus the idea of having to randomly wait for some obscure stuff to block for a minute the boot/shutdown is not my thing.

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      7 months ago

      The cool thing with Gentoo is that you can just decide one day to switch to systemd and it’s about as easy as changing your profile and updating your system (and maybe recompiling your kernel)

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      7 months ago

      You have to compile everything though, even from a stage 2 installation. I haven’t attempted one for like 15 years, but I imagine it’s still not quick.

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        It’s not too bad. I very rarely recompile everything from scratch and after I do that I just create a snapshot with btrfs. Are usually then chroot into that snapshot and compile everything natively overnight for that 5% Theoretical performance boost.

        Most recently I took that snapshot and then used btrfs send to adapt it to a laptop as well and that worked quite well actually.

        Everything I install is typically through flatpack or distro box just like silver blue. This means install times are pretty much okay but I have a huge amount of flexibility in the way the system works

        Also heaps of binary packages as well, so that’s not too bad. The binary packages much slower than both arch and Alpine but not a lot slower than for example Fedora.