21 engineers on Hacker News describe using Gentoo first-hand: 3 endorse it, 3 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“the actual support for binaries in Gentoo hasn't been great. Unsigned serving over HTTP or NFS of compiled artifacts is about all you get.”
mixed · production · TrueDuality · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've installed Gentoo literally two times. Once per PC. Been using it for years. It's not like you have to keep tweaking it.”
endorse · personal · globular-toast · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“even during my foray into gentoo I ran into system-killing issues with similar root causes.”
regret · personal · nurple · 2023-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was only able to do this because of years of running gentoo and building linux for various embedded projects. It pays off!”
endorse · personal · lrvick · 2023-06-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For non-laptops I use Gentoo, but you don't want to have to install or upgrade packages when not plugged in”
mixed · personal · aidenn0 · 2017-01-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using gentoo for a decade and I'm sad to say that I still can't get to 100% built from source.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · hyperion2010 · 2016-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Last time I ran a stage 1 Gentoo tarball, it took 12 hours to bootstrap. Never again.”
regret · personal · forca · 2014-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am on gentoo, so I have to create and adjust my own init scripts.”
regret · production · andmarios · 2013-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The AppImage seems to run fine on Gentoo, so I've been using that.”
neutral · personal · codebooks · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“starting with RHEL3, then Gentoo, Ubuntu, and finally ArchLinux”
neutral · personal · throwup238 · 2024-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just learned how to do stuff in Gentoo in the early ‘00s.”
neutral · personal · sgarland · 2024-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it for 20 years too.”
neutral · personal · 20 yr · nubinetwork · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“All servers self hosted (we run C1/Gentoo!) in our own computing facility in Finland.”
neutral · production · intc · 2022-09-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A few Gentoo and Arch boxes at smaller businesses.”
neutral · production · doubled112 · 2021-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I say this is a long time gentoo user. It won't replace my gentoo system any time soon”
neutral · personal · globular-toast · 2020-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I gave up trying to use it on my development machine and learned how to write gentoo ebuilds.”
neutral · personal · hyperion2010 · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I (barely) guided her in installing Gentoo (and once that was done we moved to Ubuntu for simplicity)”
neutral · personal · lloeki · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have also used extensibly: archlinux, gentoo, openbsd (it hosts and smtp, and web server public on the internet), freebsd, alpine and slackware-current.”
neutral · personal · pecg · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Gentoo since 1.4... back in 2003, maybe 2004.”
neutral · personal · 11 yr · simoncion · 2014-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With x32 you get the best of both worlds; I am using Gentoo.”
neutral · production · 1 yr · KyleSanderson · 2013-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“to Debian, to Gentoo, and after several years of using OS X, I have Arch Linux in a VM”
neutral · personal · gks · 2011-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?