No that I could tell, but mostly because before it I used to use Ubuntu, and got fed trying to uninstall stuff I didn’t actually need and it attempted to yolo a whole bunch of packages with it. It didn’t had much storage either (120 GB) so that mattered a bit; but mostly because I didn’t had internet at home (or when I could had it, it was completely shit - a 3G modem)
Trying to update Ubuntu offline was a huge pain in the ass: I needed to go to an internet cafe nearby, or at uni, and download the packages for the updates one by one (searching them in packages.ubuntu, going to the results page, picking the distro, picking architecture…), burned them to a CD or copied them onto a usb stick and went back home to install them… only for it to tell me it was now needing some other bunch of packages, so rinse and repeat. I could do that even like 3 or 4 more times to update just a single frigging app - it was that or having wait for a new Ubuntu release, and soon Ubuntu would end that program where they sent people an original Ubuntu CD to their address completely for free.
Whereas with Gentoo it already had the --fetchonly flag so you could just ran emerge with it and it would tell you absolutely everything you needed, so I could parse that output with sed or something and go to another computer with an internet connection and download them with some other tool, everything at once. I could then bring them home and update the thing in a single command. Of course it could take time to compile stuff but the updating process was much easier to me. So think like a IP over Avian Carriers situation.
Why use gentoo ? Was it worth it performance wise ?
No that I could tell, but mostly because before it I used to use Ubuntu, and got fed trying to uninstall stuff I didn’t actually need and it attempted to yolo a whole bunch of packages with it. It didn’t had much storage either (120 GB) so that mattered a bit; but mostly because I didn’t had internet at home (or when I could had it, it was completely shit - a 3G modem)
Trying to update Ubuntu offline was a huge pain in the ass: I needed to go to an internet cafe nearby, or at uni, and download the packages for the updates one by one (searching them in packages.ubuntu, going to the results page, picking the distro, picking architecture…), burned them to a CD or copied them onto a usb stick and went back home to install them… only for it to tell me it was now needing some other bunch of packages, so rinse and repeat. I could do that even like 3 or 4 more times to update just a single frigging app - it was that or having wait for a new Ubuntu release, and soon Ubuntu would end that program where they sent people an original Ubuntu CD to their address completely for free.
Whereas with Gentoo it already had the --fetchonly flag so you could just ran emerge with it and it would tell you absolutely everything you needed, so I could parse that output with sed or something and go to another computer with an internet connection and download them with some other tool, everything at once. I could then bring them home and update the thing in a single command. Of course it could take time to compile stuff but the updating process was much easier to me. So think like a IP over Avian Carriers situation.
Ugh… do you even -O3?