Now I’m super curious about Gentoo and Portage. You don’t hear so much about compiling your own stuff anymore (probably because there’s less architectures around).
“Nobody” runs Gentoo anymore because most distros have taken the 80% optimizations you can do and just mainlined them. This was back in 2000’s where some distros weren’t even by default compiling with -O2. Gentoo usage just proved out that the underlying code was effectively -O3 safe in the 80% case and nobody was sneakily relying on C/C++ vagaries.
I have much less time to tinker, but my favorite new bag is Fedora Atomic (currently using Bazzite on my main desktop). I’m incredibly interested in figuring out Nix though, but I haven’t had the time. Immutable distros are honestly something incredibly useful for both power users and normies. The main issues I’ve had with Fedora Atomic have really been around vagueness in the “standard” but they’re still figuring things out as far as I can tell.
Nix is cool. My next daily driver is probably going to be Qubes, which goes in a whole other direction. I bet you can run Nix within Qubes, though.
Guix and it’s accompanying system are interesting to me for basically being Nix with Portage-style user compilation. The system is also GNU Hurd compatible and has a different approach to organising files, among other things.
“Nobody” runs Gentoo anymore because most distros have taken the 80% optimizations you can do and just mainlined them. This was back in 2000’s where some distros weren’t even by default compiling with
-O2. Gentoo usage just proved out that the underlying code was effectively-O3safe in the 80% case and nobody was sneakily relying on C/C++ vagaries.I have much less time to tinker, but my favorite new bag is Fedora Atomic (currently using Bazzite on my main desktop). I’m incredibly interested in figuring out Nix though, but I haven’t had the time. Immutable distros are honestly something incredibly useful for both power users and normies. The main issues I’ve had with Fedora Atomic have really been around vagueness in the “standard” but they’re still figuring things out as far as I can tell.
Nix is cool. My next daily driver is probably going to be Qubes, which goes in a whole other direction. I bet you can run Nix within Qubes, though.
Guix and it’s accompanying system are interesting to me for basically being Nix with Portage-style user compilation. The system is also GNU Hurd compatible and has a different approach to organising files, among other things.