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I've been trying out Gentoo, but imma hop to another distro (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Everything just feels way more complicated than it needs to be.

I tried installing Openshot (a video editor) but I couldn't figure out how to fix the error it spits out when I try to emerge it.

I will now try out Arch and hope I don't need a master's degree to install packages.

Edit: Gentoo isn't the first distro I've tried, I've been daily driving Debian for more than a year and just wanted to try it out since I heard good things about it. And also I didn't really need to use Openshot, I just wanted some video editor and arbitrarily chose to install that one.

Also I guess I will just stick with Debian since apparently Arch is also complicated.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No way! 😱

I'll take a look at these distros, though I'm not really too much of a beginner anymore.

I actually come from Debian, but I hopped distros in hopes of finding an even better distro.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotcha! Enjoy your hopping then - just didn't want someone to try out Linux for the first time on hard mode and give up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeap, all new comers to linux should first try Gentoo, if it fails, then try LFS. After that, KISS linux should be a breeze

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean... It doesn't have to be a competition, does it?

Some people just want a stable system to work on. I kind of want to leave Ubuntu, I like mint and popos, but. They don't always work out of the box like Ubuntu does for me. So I just change the dm to emulate other distros and it feels good enough.

Am I doing it wrong?