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Gentoo user here. It can be great for dev as you have everything that is required to build the software you’re running assuming you’re trying to produce something using the same base. Ie C++ with Qt for KDE etc.
It’s also a lot easier to build your own repo and packages with than any dev setup I’ve seen, it’s literally just a text file.
It does take a while to compile. However you need opinions to use it… Otherwise you will just have useflags enabled on everything. It does require a bit of understanding of how linux is built but the guide does most of the work for you, and it’s easy to install on an existing system. If you’re using btrfs you can install it on a subvolume and try it out easy.
However I used it during the 00s and 20s… But not the 10s. The difference is that software is moving way too fast for distributions to keep up with, so you will definitely want to build your own ebuilds at some point. Emerge / portage can sometimes cause issues upgrading too. But nothing a btrfs snapshot can’t save you from.
I feel like there is some cause to list CS degrees and their position on Unix and Linux. awesome-linux-cs repo?
Moved from Gentoo to Ubuntu in 2008 as I needed to focus more on my job, moved back to Gentoo in 2022. Snaps were part of it, but really the lack of maintenance and vision around the apt repository was really the issue. More and more I was installing stray debs, or having to use flatpaks / AppImages for what what I wanted the system to manage for me.
Not that I’ve entirely stopped using flatpaks or AppImages, but the process of creating an ebuild is far simpler than trying to do anything with a deb. For a while I had hope about the ppa, however that became fewer and fewer. I do think that the battle to have a comprehensive software repository is a loosing one because of the way things are currently structured.
What languages are you wanting to use, the combination between toolkit and language can make a big difference to your experience.
There are a lot of interesting options out there that aren’t top of people’s minds too. For instance Lazarus, and Flutter. Both can do cross platform.
Used to use Xnest to do this. IDK how easy it still is these days.
It’s probably great for bulk as it gives you something close to what you would expect. I imagine it would be different for things that are specific to the lore, world, etc.
Could mean that there is a lot more detail in games, and a lot might even be unintentional.
Is it Space Odyssey?