Hey, I just wanted to share some screenshots that in my opinion reflect how beautiful Gentoo is.

The first screenshot shows a world update which combines binary packages, source based packages, new slots, automatic rebuilds on use flag changes, automatic uninstalls due to blocking packages and all with pretty colors that make everything intuitive. this is not my local machine but a ssh session to a slow dualcore laptop on stable packages, mixed with some ~amd64. hence the binary packages. my main machine is on ~amd64

the terminal colors were the first thing that hooked me on Gentoo all those years ago. when other distros just showed a grey and black prompt and boot messages, gentoo was already light green and purple

![](https://lazysoci.al/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2F

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/371784

I ran Gentoo on our Ryzen 5800X computer... But we had to stop with that because after all my tinkering we didn't have a usable enough system capable of doing the things we needed, like running Steam.

I have developed a love/hate relationship with portage. It's very powerful letting you get at all the compiler flags. I like that. But it was too unwieldy also and parts of it felt a little outdated.

What I need for my workstation is something that is very powerful and efficient but also highly robust and stable enough to serve as the base for all my usages.

Maybe I'll try Funtoo. Thought about NixOS or something but don't want to do that really.

Looks like the creator of Gentoo has a YouTube: Daniel Robbins / BDFLFUN2

these should not be used system wide (see package.env). good for small programs that don't serve as dependencies for alot of other important packages. specifying flags will force them and can cause problems with compilation or cause the program to stop unexpectedly.

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          _FORTIFY_SOURCE (since glibc 2.3.4)
              Defining this macro causes some lightweight checks to be performed to detect some buffer overflow errors when
              employing various string and memory manipulation functions
              (for example, memcpy(3), memset(3), stpcpy(3), strcpy(3),
              strncpy(3), strcat(3), strncat(3), sprintf(3),
              snprintf(3), vsprintf(3), vsnprintf(3), gets(3), and wide
              character variants thereof).  For some functions, argument
              consistency is checked; for example, a check is made that
              open(2) has been supplied with a mode argument when the
              specified flags include O_CREAT.  Not all problems are