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Re: "i use gentoo since 2005, if i was less stupid i would start..."
Discord, really? For a FOSS project? This sounds very stupid.
Feb 19 · 6 months ago
❄ w1ntermute · 2024-02-19 at 07:37:
I've been a Gentoo user for about a year now, and have occiasionally mused about switching to Funtoo. What decisions did Drobbins make that you weren't a fan of?
🐙 norayr [OP/mod] · 2024-02-20 at 10:21:
well, many, i don't remember already. but what i remember - community is small, it is harder to get help. and they have bugs that don't exist in gentoo. and it is a problem to make the devs fix those often.
plus it is not rolling release anymore. it has releases. and you have to be on some release where you have much much older software versions than you would have on gentoo. it becomes wore like debian.
caused lots of problems on the server, i had to use very old prosody (jabber server) and i couldn't build some newer software versions even by hand (like biboumi or lemmy).
and then they forced the discord which was untolerable to me. they just banned everyone from irc chat to force.
i use gentoo since 2005, if i was less stupid i would start using it earlier. i have been written an utility for rpm based distros that would have http path with src.rpm files in config file, would download src.rpm package, try to build it. check output, get dependencies, if any, repeat the process recoursively. that way i was able to build extra software for my redhat systems. also i was able to update rhels by not having access to binaries but to sources only. i also played with debians...