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diff --git a/posts/gentoo.md b/posts/gentoo.md deleted file mode 100644 index d38ddce..0000000 --- a/posts/gentoo.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,71 +0,0 @@ -<!-- Title: Why I prefer Gentoo --> - -### Why I prefer Gentoo over Arch. -A lot of people say very good things about gentoo linux, it is very well maintained, -It is more secure, It is lightweight and so on. But when it comes down to it, -very few people actually use gentoo, I think that is because they install it -and after a month or so they really get sick of waiting for the packages to compile -and they switch back to whatever they were using before. I know it because, -I had done that in the past, I dual-booted my machine with gentoo and arch linux -intending to only use gentoo, and arch only when I didn't have the time to wait -for the package to compile, but ended up only booting to arch and almost never -to gentoo, at that time if you were to ask me the best package manager -I would have unhesitatingly said arch's pacman, while I still think that pacman is the best -**binary** package manager -for the past few months I have started to really like gentoo and its package manager -portage and there are different reasons for that. - -### Compiling programs makes more sense than downloading binaries. -On unix-like operating systems you generally use -open-source software and that software is made to be compiled by the users specific -to their machines, but on binary based distros you use programs that are compiled for -you by someone else and again to me, personally, compiling just makes more sense. - -### It gives you more perspective to the program you use. -If you'd downloaded a binary package you would only be able to tell if a program is fast, -has enough features and so on, but you wouldn't have known how much time it takes -to compile, what the build dependencies are, and even sometimes the -programming language that it is written in. I do agree that knowing those abstract details -of a package is utterly useless for a typical end-user who is not a programmer -but for a programmer those details are very important, since you get to know what build systems are -faster what programming language compiles faster, builds better and sometimes you -get to learn some stuff that you didn't even know existed. You can build programs from source in other distros -as well but gentoo makes it easier and forces you to do that -and be honest, If you could install binary package in 10 seconds -you wouldn't even bother waiting for it to compile for 20 minutes. - -### You install less packages. -In order to avoid compilation you tent to install less pieces of software -resulting in more stable and more performant system. God forbid you if -you are using arch linux and have access to the AUR -(I had installed more than 2000 useless packages on my arch system). - -### It is more secure, lightweight and faster (at least in theory). -I have not noticed any significant difference in terms of performance -between gentoo and binary based distros and I kind of think that security -on client OSes is overrated, but for some few people these might be important -since you literally can skip some useless parts of a program (useless for you of course) -resulting in less bloated, therefore faster and more secure programs, but again I -don't really find it that important. - -### **No systemd**! -I am not against systemd but I prefer to not use it. -On gentoo the default init system is openrc and it works -with no problem. - -### Bad parts. -Like everything, it has some negative stuff about it as well, -those are - -- Compilation can take some time. -- Gentoo is the one of **the hardest** distro to manage. - -I am saying both of those with an asterisk, because -although I agree that there are some big pieces of software that you basically have to have -like a browser, (it took 6h to compile a browser on my machine) but most of the time -if software takes too much time to compile that indicates that it is -overcomplicated and you shouldn't even be using it. -Gentoo is hard to use but, that also means gentoo forces to know more, making you better at -system administration. - -So, that is all. |