Fuck Nationalists, White Supremacists, Nazis, Fascists, Zionists, The Patriarchy, Maga, Racists, Transphobes, Terfs, Homophobes, Police, ICE.
Gentoo is probably the most customizable of the Linux distros, as you can compile from source, adjust C compiler flags to optimize application speed, remove compiler level features if you don’t want/need them, and they support a LOT of computer architectures. Not to mention the Gentoo Wiki is a gem of documentation that surpasses (imho) even the Arch Wiki.
It’s potentially the best Linux distro for tinkerers up there with Arch Linux and NixOS.
As a jr programmer with constant fish bowl brain, thanks for reminding of this.
Its almost as if DHH and those transphobes over at Hyprland(not to mention Lunduke, Luke Smith, Distrotube, and the various cadre of right wing little bissh boys on YouTube) all forgot about Linus Torvalds.
As far as I’m concerned Linux is for the left. But heck when an ideology like fascism is born out of grifting off left wing ideology (i.e. See Mussolini’s socialist/anarchist father), the right can just appropriate whatever they want…but they’ll still always be little bissh boys to me.
Yeah, fair. Again, it’s imho, that the Gentoo wiki still surpasses the Arch wiki (emphasis on humble opinion).
All that considered, it would be a considerable tragedy to lose Gentoo as a distribution in the Linux ecosystem. It offers something no other Linux distro does. Namely complete customization surpassed only by LFS (i.e. Linux From Scratch).
On a bit of a tangent, I personally think the recent popularity of AI points to not the superiority of AI/LLM utility, but rather to the enshittefication of modern search/documentation.
I think the Gentoo wiki, for all its flaws, is still a genuinely important part of the online documentation of how everything works. Sure, it’s terse, its verbose. But after the summary, don’t you eventually come to the thought “sure, but why? Why run that command? What does that mean? What does that ultimately do?” I’m not saying the Gentoo wiki answers this (ultimately this boils down to a CS/Math question), but still, the deeper question and the slightly deeper answer matters. It’s important that is documented, publicly somewhere. It is important you shouldn’t have to query an LLM to get that answer. Any wiki is better than some corporately gate kept LLM answer.
Hence, why I still think while imperfect, the Gentoo wiki is important to maintain.
It is my hope, that while perhaps you may not agree with my humble opinion, that you might at least sympathize with my view.