Am I allowed to use gentoo if im not 40+ or dating?
On a more serious note, how does updating apps on gentoo work? I understand that everything is built on your system, but then if the app is updated, do you need to re-compile every time?
It’s not gentoo late, bro!
DuckDuckGo doesn't track your activity so they only target ads based on your current query and technical details. They determined it would take 30 years to compile Gentoo on your rig so 40+ is a good guess for your age.
I didn't start using Gentoo when I was 10. Is it over for me?
How are you expecting to get 10 years of experience for your entry-level job by age 20? You need that to succeed in the job market, and let me guess, you also wasted so much potential by passing up on that opportunity of being born to Linus Torvalds.
They will make an exception for your age once they find out you take pictures of your screen
Look, a Gentooman is up for dating.
This would be the top post on Reddit.
That ad is targeted perfectly.
Tempted to enable ads myself.
Maybe OP can post the link to the ad here. Asking for a friend
Don't worry, you'll be 40+ by the time the updates are finished compiling.
Just two things:
if OP is using gentoo then there is a very real chance they aren’t able to take screenshots yet.
back in my gentoo days it took a while to get that set up. although it wasn’t exactly a top priority
No, use Hannah Montana Linux like a normal person
TempleOS is all anyone needs
Packages, not apps. Yes, packages will be recompiled every time they are updated. This can take a moderate amount of time, but it is not a problem in my experience, as you can still use your PC when it is compiling and you don't use your PC 24/7 so why would it be a problem? You can use binaries for the packages that take an especially long time to compile(like chromium) or all of them.
What's your sock situation?
Footwear in general
Yes, you recompile each time you update.
In general, to upgrade an app you do:
root # emaint --auto sync
root # emerge --update $PACKAGE_NAME
(That first command used to just be something like root # emerge --sync when I last used Gentoo, two decades ago. I wonder why they changed it?)
Wouldnt that take a long time every update? Or are all the horror stories of long compile times just a thing of the past with better hardware now?
A few "whales" are out there, such as browser (engines), rust, certain monolithic office packages and distribution kernel. Those all have -bin alternatives as already mentioned in this thread. The rest will usually be a matter of about half an hour max in my experience.
Well, yeah, but that's what you sign up for when you choose to use Gentoo. Custom-compiling every app, every time, with your chosen USE flags, is the advantage of it. (I suppose Gentoo has "binary packages" available now, but at that point I don't see why you wouldn't just pick Arch instead to begin with.)
Also, that's another reason you should update frequently (e.g. daily or weekly): to keep compilation times reasonable by only ever updating a few packages at once.
Also also, as I said, I last used Gentoo two decades ago. Even back then, I found the compilation times... uh, at least "tractable." 😅 I can only assume that with modern hardware they're not bad at all, as for the most part, processing power has scaled faster than FOSS code complexity.
What is this “dating”?
I use Ubuntu, even people on Lemmy won’t talk to me.
I’m just kidding. I use arch btw. I’m recompiling my wifi drivers on my Commodore 64, so I can play Jumpman please help me
AFAIK: Gentoo used to be just source repos, but times have changed. Gentoo repos now have binaries. You can opt out of them, so it's up to you.
With binaries, it works like any other distro. Download the updated binaries, install, done.
If you go from source, then it will download all the source code, and do the whole makefile thing, and install the new binaries when the compile is done, every time you do an update.
So the direct answer to your question is: it depends. If you're compiling everything then yes, you need to recompile everything that is updated. If you're going to opt for binaries in the package manager, then no.
The binaries are not opt out, but opt in.
A small but important distinction.
Thank you for the information. Have a good day.
Updating on Gentoo works with it's package management, but the actual packages are source code archives (and maybe patch files). It downloads them, compiles and installs them in a special build environment, then, if it worked, applies them to the system and removes the old version.
Would you tell me the difference with Nix in that regard
idk. i have never used nix. however, i think a specialty of gentoo are global USE flags. it's a list of compile time options you want to use. they will automatically be used for packages that support them. for example, if you enable the bluetooth flag, all packages you install will get bluetooth support and additional dependencies may get pulled in. if you use -bluetooth however, they won't get bluetooth support, even if it's their default. they can also be tweaked indivudually per package, which is more like nix, i think.
Better docs for one. The gentoo handbook is probably one of the best learning guides for Linux as a whole ever made. Yes it's better than the arch wiki. It's laid out in such a way that if you know generally what you are looking for but not exactly you will most likely be able to find it.
It's just that if you start at 20 with an emerge update, it might be done by the time you're 40 and you might want to consider start dating for once.
Average qtwebengine updater
Fuck it. I’m actually gonna just go ahead and say it. It’s gonna get me banned, and everyone will flame me for being honest, but
everything /should run old-school QNX neutrino. Runs off a 1.44 and has a tasty-ass ui, QNX4EVA
CUE THE FUCKIN DOWNVOTES YOU BABIES YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH FUCK OFF BSD USERS DONT CARE dont bother trying to @ me
What the hell is happening with this commenter?
They're on the good drugs.
You come at me with that microkernel tiny-ass bullshit, and expect me not to stomp my Linux-RT kernel down your ass? Man, your ass be dragging. That's an ass full of ass you're talking there, and if you get your ass down here right now we can fight it out in the parking lot where I will hand your ass to you, and you can hand me mine, and then we'll go bowling or something.
Imma let you finish, but BeOS is the best microkernel operating system of all time! OF ALL TIME!!!
How many unix like operating systems are there? I thought it was just BSD and Linux. Then I heard about Plan 9. Now this. Next thing you know someone is going to find an operating system that is meant to run oil pumps or something and is going to install doom on it.
You feeling better now that it's out there?
Was it better back then? I'm working with QNX these days and the hardware integration is a fucking mess
Google now thinks:
A) You’re a pengin
B) You’re trying to marry up from your social class
Your ads are going to be wonderful.
OP is a duck.
Recommended as no one else but other Gentoo care about your compile times of cowsay
What's updating?
nothin much, what's up with you?
Dating, what's up with that!? laugh track
Well, your first mistake was using google.
duckduckgo is a bing frontend
Your first mistake was not spotting the DuckDuckGo logo in the corner ;)
oops
Maybe peoples that used gentoo are old enough to be called legends
¯ (ツ) _/¯
Just don't use Arch for dating.
Yeah, it basically syncs the repository from the patch and then compiles.
No.
I was getting some meh results with DuckDuckGO so I switched to Qwant and started trying it instead.
Yes. But you have to spoof your browser credentials.
No, grow up first!!!11
What's the other meaning of Gentoo if it showed you this ad? Just install uBlock Origin or use Brave.
Im guessing 'updating' has 'dating'. No idea the gentoo bit.
Looking to start generation two of my offspring
Shit like this is why I don't use DuckDuckGo. I appreciate them for what they do (and I love the DDG app for it's tracking protection abilities), but their search is absolute garbage, somehow even worse than Google's.
DDG partnered with Microsoft which allows Microsoft to ignore the tracking protections in the iOS and Android browsers, all in the name of serving you "relevant ads" like that's something I want. They can make all the soothing claims they want, I won't use them ever again.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ads-by-microsoft-on-duckduckgo-private-search/
Try SearXNG, It aggregates from several search engines into one result list with no tracking. Also FOSS.
Ah, I see DDG has started the slow slide into enshittification.
Start off with a good service, gain a userbase, then start to slowly boil the frog an extract cash.
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I wish ddg didn't suck, but ddg sucks.
What's bad about it? OP has voluntarily turned ads on on ddg (to support ddg I guess). DDG has been working great for me, so care to enlighten me please?
DDG is good, that guy can go duck himself. I love !bangs.
I've been using it for like a week now and it's weirdly slow. Basically every other search engine including the other privacy focused ones are significantly faster.