• Lucien [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    For me, my first exposure to Linux was around that same time, but with SuSE. It’s still my go-to distro, even though I’ve installed and used dozens of different ones. Compiling Gentoo over a weekend is a fun experience at least once.

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      22 hours ago

      I think I used gentoo years ago. Is that the one that builds and downloads as you install? I’m getting old, it’s been years and I remember a distro that was making headlines with something like that years ago.

      My go-to distro for a long time was Mandrake, which became Mandriva. I have no idea what’s going on with that one now.

      I’ve been using SteamOS and EndeavourOS recently.

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        21 hours ago

        Yeah, Gentoo builds everything from source. Supposed to make it faster, but I didn’t notice enough of a difference to make it worth my while.