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Rust or Go please.
If emerge were Rewritten In Rust, it could be called 'remerge'.
I would ~ enable that.
Why Gentoo?
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Re: Why Gentoo?
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Why am I paying $20 for an audio mixer?
Do you go to stores and just take things, too? There is a thing you want. Someone has spent time and money and effort making it. They want money in exchange for goods or services. Yeah it's great that the church down the street is giving food away for free, but in most places you pay money for things.
Yes well as another commenter noted, this is actually freely available software, and when people provide goods and services for free it depresses the price of said goods and services. And anyway this was a comment about Apple in general, how every fix costs at least $20. Airpods not synced up? Just buy a new pair! Etc.
Re: Why Gentoo?
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Yeah, but if I’m not customizing it, Linux is just worse in every way. If you are going to do that why not just buy a Mac?
> Yeah, but if I’m not customizing it, Linux is just worse in every way I strongly disagree. You can customize Linux, but that's not its only benefit. > If you are going to do that why not just buy a Mac Because I don't want iOS. I want Linux.
Well that’s a personal preference, but objectively (and I use that word very loosely here), apple sillicon is equivalent to portage in terms of efficiency, since the software is fully integrated with the machine, to extract as much compute as possible out of it. The problem is that this can’t be configured for every operation on the machine. You can install other people’s software, and the machine has one universal preset basically that governs all the alternative customizations, so other people’s software is not as efficient as it could be if you optimized for it directly, like you can do with Gentoo. But if you just installed a random linux distro without customizing it, it would not even be necessarily well integrated with the hardware, in fact it could not be, since Linux is by its nature reaching towards a universal that no particular machine could possible land totally within. And its true with Gentoo as well, except you can squeeze out far more edges, and arguably go further than apple silicon. But an apple silicon machine will always be more efficient in its preset condition than one running Gentoo in its active use: the problem is that you can’t even know the computer is working unless you start using it, and then all the sudden Gentoo is possibly infinitely more efficient in every actual use case.
Re: Why Gentoo?
#84Interesting – I've been looking for a budget-friendly option. How does its backlink analysis compare to Ahrefs' depth?
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What are these Linux distributions “in the middle”? I use FreeBSD and Arch primarily. FreeBSD gives me a lot of customisation options(ports ftw) while at the same time, it’s remarkably stable. With Arch I find myself praying shit won’t break with every update, and a lot of 3rd party software just don’t work. Hence why I keep returning to FreeBSD for my servers.
Depending where on the rather broad spectrum between Arch and MacOS you want to be (GP switched from Arch to MacOS because Arch needs maintenance and can break) I would say any of Manjaro, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RH and many more. > Hence why I keep returning to FreeBSD for my servers. It sounds like you were using Arch on a sever. You use Arch if you are happy fixing breaking changes. its not for somethi…
I have never used Arch on a server.
I have yet to find a suitable Linux distribution for the server.
The distributions you mention, Debian as an example, are not at all comparable to FreeBSD.
What many Linux users(that I presume that you are), don’t realise about FreeBSD is that while it’s base is stable and well built, ports and packages are well supported and gives me supreme flexibility.
I have not yet seen such a Linux distribution.