It's great to at least give Gentoo a try, I imagine you learned a lot from it. I'd recommend trying to give it another shot some years down the road when you become a more more familiar with Linux and how to fix things on your own. You'll find it's probably way easier than you remembered.
I did learn a lot from it and I'll definitely take another shot at it at a later time. 😊
NixOS is great for granularity since everything is "reinstalled" every single time you change your configuration, and it's extremely customizable. Fully declarative systems are a gamechanger IMO.
CachyOS is great for when you want a lot of pre-optimized software for your specific CPU archirecture, but you don't want to compile everything.
Artix is great for when you want Arch minus systemd.
Alpine is great for when you want a very lightweight system, also without systemd, but also using musl instead of glibc.
Never seen this rundown before. It's great! 🤣🩷
Wow, cool, good luck on trying gentoo
I did try it, twice, and it seems really great! If I ever need this level of customization and optimization, I will certainly return to it. 😊
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