Go through this https://www.gentoo.org/support/security/

You misunderstood. The configuration is one time. Updates and patches gets configured according to your configuration.

FYI, The updates you get are also pre-compiled by the distro team, and are compiled with generic flag to ensure compatibility.

Annoy is completely the wrong term. You’re getting to control over what is to be built and what’s not, and since softwares are compiled and optimised according to my hardware, they are lighter and faster with less attack surface.

That may sound cumbersome for a novice to setup the portage configuration but in return it is really worth the time, and it is usually one time, unless you plan to add or remove features. But once you’re satisfied with your configuration, you don’t have to look back at it.

I found YouTubers complaining about going through hour long upgrade on the daily bases very misleading. Only a few core packages can take that long, which are upgraded on a quarterly bases.

Wait did you seriously called it a hype? Before switching to Gentoo, I was using Arch, softwares have better support of eachother and if feature isn’t working you can always talk with the dev how to resolve it. They might even look into modifying the ebuilds to make them compatible.

FYI, I never came across any breakage and I’ve been using Gentoo for about an year now.

I don’t know how to do it with systemd.automount but I’ve been using udisks to define defaults for mounting BTRFS: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Udisks#Default_mount_options

Are you talking about the .keep files?

If you are looking for stability with latest updates, then Gentoo. But I won’t recommend it to a distro hopper.

Besides than Arch and Mint are my general recommendation.

• At the least Nvidia hardware gets full support for Linux. Which in turn would help me run Wayland on daily bases.
• Ease at implementing secure boot for Linux.
• Torification/I2P being used as standard to use and adapt applications running on linux for internet access.

Its a repost from linuxmemes IIRC.

Rsync

it’s for the common man, and its relatable.

Is the EFI entry available to boot into windows? Did you made a new, separate ESP for grub?

Well, now you know. That’s the reason I joined so many communities related to FOSS and Linux to get to know what cooking :)

IIRC Kubuntu/Ubuntu and DSL in 2003-5ish, and IIRC programs were compiled on the local machine back then.

I mostly sticked with Windows cause most of the 3D packages are on Windows (I’m a 3D generalist). Was exposed to centos variants while working in the industry.

After covid, I had a lot of time to get back onto GNU Linux.

On their site it says you need Western Digital Dashboard, which requires windows. I’m not sure/haven’t bothered myself as of now on Linux.

I’m using WD. No issues.

My experience with windows:

• Requies a monthly reinstall just to squeeze better performance.
• I pay for a licence and I still don’t own a copy of windows
• unnecessary services running in background without my concent, and I had no control over them, eating up resources.

My initial experience with Linux:

• I need to study it to know my way around.
• applications behave as intended and are reasonable with provided resources.
• I initially started out with a destop environment which came with some extra software I didn’t need (subjective).
• experience was quite stable.

My current outlook towards Linux:

• My system is configured and equipped with tools I only need. No bloatware.
• Gives me a better idle temps than windows.
• FOSS has lot of talented software which got limitless potential. Your imagination is the limit.
• Better security and no surveillance.
• Nvidia drivers, and its respective tech needs to be fully adopted for Linux.

I personally prefer appimages. What are your thoughts about it?

I got a five year old g502. I have no issues on linux or piper. I more willing to use piper than LGS to configure the mouse.

RT isn’t available and few games using EAC still need support for Linux. Additionally Logitech headphones aren’t supported on Linux (proprietary drivers for virtual surround)

Besides that I’m very well aware of proton’s existence and I’m planning on building a new instance of Gentoo just for gaming.

WTF is this?