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OpenSUSE has the best installation menu of any OSs ever made in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

With Gentoo, you can choose any live-iso, open a terminal and start installing. (:

OpenSUSE has the best installation menu of any OSs ever made in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

It needed many reinstalls! So yes, many times, indeed.

Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

I know at least one person who switched back to Windows but claimed there was no choice. Maybe the people arround that person making the switch to Linux initially does matter. And if they are (still) Windows users, it can happen at the first sign of trouble; especially when they are stubborn Windows users.

Guys, there are people out there Windows is the only OS they want to use despite all the problems.

It’s liquids all the way down in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It depends, I propably won't understand the most english idioms, but I am able to hate the ones in my native language, because some of them are very stupid. ^^

What is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I can't remember ever having a glibc related update problem. eselect news is always there for me. (:

I only have rarely a perl update related problem, but usually solvable with a world update. And since there are now binpkgs I only compile what has differing useflags from the selected profile. Portage has never been better!

What is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why miss it? It is still there.

It’s liquids all the way down in c/memes@lemmy.ml

Google “search” in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

For some stuff I had more luck using ChatGPT and crosscheck using DuckDuckGo.

Massive battery life improvements on AMD over the past year in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Thx, I will try that. When configuring my kernel I saw it and left it in the default config "active" (I was upgrading to the latest LTS kernel today). I did not check how I can interact with it as a user, yet.

Massive battery life improvements on AMD over the past year in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Would a desktop CPU (Zen3) also benefit from these improvements?

Is gentoo Linux really worth it? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The package manager portage is simply the most flexible one I have ever used, especially with the new binary repositories; it beats deb and dnf/rpm by far in my opinion.

Ommiting features of installed software with the help of useflags can make it more stable and secure.

I think it is "criminal" not wanting to use Gentoo as a daily driver. But this is just me and my opinion doing only honest stuff with it. (:

Is gentoo Linux really worth it? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think it is very useful because of that, because that way you can omit dependencies that would be installed otherwise.

And maybe it reduces the risk of having bugs and security problems in the software that you use tied to certain features of it you don't have compiled in.