I have been using Arch for five years and I think I would like to call myself at least a progressive beginner when it comes to Linux, computers and networking, to be humble. 🤣

I would like to “move on” to Gentoo or LFS to force myself to learn more[1]. Please share your pros and cons for switching to any one of these approaches.

Use case: a gaming rig (using nvidia’s proprietary drivers and an AMD CPU) on one system and a server on a separate system.

  1. This was my main incentive for switching to Arch a long time ago, and it worked! ↩︎

    • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Second NixOS. I’m curious as to whether Gentoo does much that NixOS doesn’t do, aside from not using systemd and not having a world-readable store.

      • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 days ago

        I believe nixos is superior. Especially on the package manager side. NixOS supports almost all packages for linux and far surpasses even the AUR on arch Linux.

      • Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml
        11·
        3 days ago

        You can use systemd with Gentoo. it’s more customizable and has a better package manager (imo) and better documentation. For regular desktop use I think NixOS makes more sense, even if I detest the language.

        More customizable isn’t necessarily better if you have no goals in mind, either way.

        I run neither on my “main” machine.

      • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 days ago

        How does the documentation and community support differ? Sometimes I can get lost in nix or any OS. But forums and troubleshooting matters a lot to me.

    • whimsy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Rather go with guix os which actually is based on a sane language and has stronger security/reproducibility measures. Not to mention a much more pleasant community