cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/24574658
was checking my old favourite posts and found this.
me: favorite os: any vanilla AOSP or Lineage based custom rom, i can’t be separated from android, i’m a hardcore bugdroid fan.
favorite browser: cromite, librewolf, mercury
favorite apps: invizible pro, viper4fx, bitwarden, lemmy, yetcalc, vscodium, xorg, peazip, fileoptimizer, converseen, vidcoder
I’m feel so called out
“Has hundreds of private messaging applications that their friends won’t use” Stop, the wound is still fresh.
At some point I just need to jump off the ship and live full time Linux. I remember my Linux friend from high school telling me how cool gentoo was back in 2k3, and I got a disk and was like wtf… what do I do??? I need to try it again.
gentoo is only cool about wasting your time, like any other source based distro. if you ever need, you can manually compile anything, the os shouldn’t force you to do it
I am was going through the install last night, failed somewhere when trying to install GRUB. The install manual is way more convoluted than arch. Plus arch gives you that nice install script. I’m going to figure out gentoo at some point, but it really seems more like a challenge than something useful.
ah yes, grub NEVER works. it is overly complicated and much harder to set up than it should be. You can try alternatives though, like refind, limine, lilo, clover
Bro, I’ve been using Linux off and on since 2001ish. I used the original releases of fedora, and Ubuntu. Debian has been my longest favorite and it has only gotten better for a happy standard desktop use. I stopped daily driving Linux when I was in college and my engineering programs required me to use windows. But now that gaming is much more painless on Linux and I’ve built a solid system, 2025, might be the year of Linux for me.
I’m a bit of 2,3 and 4.
