>>966719
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>>966728
Gentoo is not a "meme distro".
>>966708 (OP)
It's the best and most precious distro you can use.
Once you get used to it, you'll realize using any other distro would be a downgrade.
It's rolling release and manages to be both stable and up to date.
You can install bleeding edge packages on a stable system without it breaking.
You can install any version of any package in the repo and portage will rebuild what needs rebuilding and update/downgrade what needs updating/downgrading and keep your system consistent.
No such thing as "dependency hells".
You can even have multiple versions of the same package side by side.
Top tier documentation and support.
Large and helpful community (you can always get help on IRC if you run into problems).
Overlays (user repos, Gentoo equivalent of AUR).
Ebuilds (package build scripts) easy to read, edit, write and maintain.
Gentoo offers you freedom of choice, power, control, customization and flexibility unlike any other distro.
Most importantly, it just works, it does what you want and doesn't get in the way.
>>966741
>Gentoo is for people who want to customize every aspect of their system, compile from source, minimize dependencies and bloat, harden security
Or people who just want a flexible distro that just works, has a ton of packages, is rolling release, stable and up to date, doesn't break when you mix stable and bleeding edge and doesn't make your choices for you.
>>966793
>gentoo takes time and effort to setup
About as much time and effort as Arch (not counting compile time during which you do something else).
The Gentoo guide is just a lot more detailed and noob friendly, so it takes longer to read.
>despite popular opinion gentoo's package manager, portage, fucks up on the regular with circular dependency hell
It wouldn't be popular opinion if that were true.
What you're refering to is a simple circular dependency error that can happen during dependency resolution, not a "dependency hell".
It happens very rarerly and even if it does happen once in a blue moon, it's simple to work around, portage literally tells you how to resolve it.
Dependency hells are not a thing on Gentoo.
>especially if you aren't updating every 6 hours. have fun updating once every couple weeks
And yet I'm fine updating all my Gentoo machines exactly once every two weeks.
Please stop spreading FUD.
>>968688
There literally is no better distro for practical use.