Gentoo Linux & Portage Package Manager

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A community for people who love Gentoo and want to discuss it, or ask for advice regarding Gentoo or its' package manager, Portage.

This community is not in any way affiliated with the Gentoo Foundation, but in order to use the Gentoo name, we must conform to the Gentoo Code of conduct, which is incidentally a very reasonable set of guidelines.

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How long have you been using Gentoo? Linux in general? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by boonhet@lemm.ee to c/gentoo@lemm.ee

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And why do you prefer it over other distros?

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[–] EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Since 2004 - 19 years! I moved to it because at the time I kept getting stuck in dependency hell on other distributions I'd tried and Portage at least gave me the knowledge and tools to fix things myself.