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Pro Great for anyone who is serious about learning the intricacies of Linux
It's useful for both beginners and professionals. For the installation, Gentoo offers various types, which are referred to as stages. Basically meaning how in depth you would want to go into the process of installation. For beginners it's useful to choose for a starting distro due to its various stages that can be very time consuming but beneficial as you learn the composition in general of Linux.
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Gentoo Linux
Recommended 6 years ago
I used XFCE4 for about 4 years (before I switched to Awesome WM) and everything was nice.
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Full control of the softwarePro
Can be officially systemd-freePro
Portage's emerge is powerfulPro
Great for anyone who is serious about learning the intricacies of LinuxPro
Gentoo does not impose a standard look-and-feelPro
PortabilityPro
Documentation and community are second to nonePro
A very large collection of software is availablePro
Live USBPro
Fully customizablePro
Can by optimized to any given CPU by using proper compile flagsGentoo Linux
Recommended 9 months ago
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