I’ve been using it exclusively (later along with self-hosted Jitsi) since 2017.

There’s tens of millions of messages, doing just fine.

I mean, it has enough RAM to handle some workloads.

But yes, laptop (ideally without a dedicated graphics card) would be better, if you want to do more than gaming.

Though for gaming it’s more than enough, unless you’re into RTS.

It takes up space you can’t use.

Specially in laptops, that’s very bad.

You can buy a USB dock and plug every peripheral into the Deck.

You can use desktop mode, too.

There is nothing the Deck can’t do. It has weaker hardware, but you can game on it just fine.

I have mine plugged into a projector, for watching movies or playing games.

Yeah, it’s insane how easy to use Gentoo is.

Nobody will take it from me. But I admit to only using it on desktop, laptop is using Mint. If I ever find time to play around with a build server, I will try switching there, too.

I know, but that’s so long ago, yet the jokes are here anyway.

Which is shame, as it seems to be scaring away potential users.

I just read a lot of Wiki.

But when I discovered how cool it is to compile stuff, I went straight to Gentoo, assuming it’s mostly the same apart from packaging.

Really?

I never tried Arch, so I can’t compare.

Apart from initramfs from install, which took more time, it felt like everything else just worked. Including installing Steam.

systemd anyone?

ducks for cover

Stage 1 and 2 are no longer available (I mean technically you could, but it’s not suggested). Stage 3 was super easy, even with kernel from source.

It takes time, sure, but it can compile on background. I got 16 threads on my CPU, so leaving 12 for emerge, I can still use the PC.

I get that people joke about ‘days of compiling’, and maybe it’s real for a huge mass of packages, but even if, it doesn’t stop me from working.

Gentoo is easy and almost user-friendly.

Specially coming from Arch it should be a breeze.

Plan9 sounds like a more exclusive deal.

Gentoo is many things.

KISS is none of them.

null and void

Gentooooooooooooooo!!1!

They WANT you to use Ai so they can cater the answers sell you ads and stop you from using the internet.

VR headset streaming video from PC without cables.

Gentoo in the top tier, checks out

Anyone, who has ever dealt with any management demanding software will tell you, that the management is the only problem.