@MischievousTomato
>i mention gore in the gentoo part.
i'm into guro you're fine lol
>fedora
never used, no opinion, i hear rpm sucks. flatpaks suck regardless of distro, if i had to use them at all i'd can it immediately
>suse
never used but yeah sounds like a smaller community
>debian
apt's ass, package releng is ass
>nixos
we use this for work a bit and its cool but yeah for binaries it sucks
>gentoo
portage does anything i throw at it and if its slow i just let it run in the background. throwing more cores at it works. distcc/ccache worth looking into if you have the resources. it's great for homogeneous server farms because you can do your own releng but even for varied systems it's nice to have a common base config i can share across them
>arch
systemd broke on both my vpses and instead of learning systemd i just ditched arch entirely. other than that, arch seems like a "mediocre" distro, close to upstream for packages, pacman "works"

since gcompat exists, i can even recommend alpine for people who still have glibc-dependent shit around. i haven't tested gcompat in depth but i want to switch my desktop over to musl+gcompat and see how it fares

>writing PKGBUILDS is easy
i have that experience with ebuilds, moreso because overlays are integrated well, instead of the whole aur gatekeeping you from deferring away from official repos. that design choice is bullshit, idk why arch did that