ive used gentoo a lot, a big downside is the amount of time spent compiling, if you need to install a lot of softwares frequently it could be difficult. (though you can use --binpkg options to install binaries and some packages have a packagename-bin variant, and flatpaks + appimages are a thing) if your software needs rarely change than it can be fairly painless.

the customization and speed are rivaled by almost nothing except for something like LFS. the package availability is great. you can also use custom patches easily as well as disable or enable specific software features (USE flags) . you can choose what packages stay at stable versions, testing versions, or even bleeding edge (-9999 version tags)

for a more “standard” distro, i would recommend artix. it’s an arch based distro with your choice of init system (as a gentoo fan ill recommend openrc). i used the graphical installer to get it setup and it was a breeze. due to not being source based, and having access to the AUR you can quickly install any package you want.

ive had it in my laptop for years and have been recently using it on my main pc for about a month.

additionally regardless of distro (besides immutable ones), id recommend installing timeshift for backups, it actually doesn’t require btrfs! ive used it with both ext4 and F2FS and doing a quick backup before an update has definitely saved me a few headaches.

feel free to ask me any follow up questions

Gordon Ramsay

that’s an extreme and impressive solution

check out artix if you want arch without systemd!

remember, it’s important to keep people ignorant to better opportunities

not even a joke for me, i can’t imagine being without F-Droid!

i forget is this app proprietary? i know a lot of their apps are

“i just caught the plague”

“it’s cause you’re on that damn orb all the time!”

what are the odds, i watched that episode only a few days ago

<continue.dev> with a local ollama setup, there’s also tabnine, which can be run locally (i think?)

came here to comment this, “fair-code” is just a fancy way to say proprietary

if gamers keep allowing companies to install kernel level anti-cheat, i fear the answer is sooner rather than later.