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		Gualdrapo on July 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Which distro do you use? (2023) Gentoo. I'm using it to write this comment! It's been my daily driver since 2009 - sans a brief period of stupidity two years ago when for some reason thought that using FreeBSD could be a good idea only to learn the hard way pkg/pkgsrc doesn't comes near to Portage about letting to fine tune your installation.

MattPalmer1086 on July 23, 2023 [–]

What do you like about Gentoo? I ran it a long time ago, like around 2005, but got bored of compiling everything and fiddling with settings.

smegsicle on July 23, 2023 | [–]

having the coolest package manager i think is the major draw

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