LXLE VS Gentoo

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1. paul    

   over 1 year ago
   have you seen the glibc ebuild? it's 1500 lines. lfs does it in less than 50

   gentoo has a feature creep and bitrot problem that has been going on for no less than 15 years. glibc is a package that should be closely guarded as it is at the CORE of your system.

   🏁 Competitors: Funtoo Linux

LXLE mentions (9)

• Recommended Distro for old notebook?

  Https://lxle.net/ This right here is what I use. LXLE is literally made for this. Source: about 1 year ago

• is anyone interested in an unofficial flavor of lubuntu with LXDE

  I guess you could use lxle, which is basically latest LTS version of Lubuntu with LXDE. Source: over 1 year ago

• I'm running vanilla Lubuntu 20.04.5 on an ancient piece of crap, recommended me some desktop environment to make it even faster.

  You can try - Ubuntu-based - Zorin OS - lite version - LXLE - Debian-based - antiX Linux - others - Puppy Linux - Linux Lite - others that come up when searching for "lightweight linux distro". Source: over 1 year ago

• Lightweight distro on ancient laptop

  Noob user here but Lxle is decent and designed for old laptops. I have had a good experience with it. Lxle website. Source: over 1 year ago

• User-friendly distro for a low-end laptop

  I think lxle has polish version. Very user friendly. Designed to revive older laptops. Based off lubuntu which is good too. Lxle website. Source: over 1 year ago

Gentoo mentions (27)

• Gentoo bans AI-created contributions

  > Gentoo does not accept art contributions of any kind (human/ai), there is just no place for this. Okay, let's do a short fact check on that: 1. Visit https://gentoo.org, notice logo in top left: a first sign of contributed art. - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• Linux saved my life

  And just wait till you discover Arch Linux, Gentoo, Guix, or NixOS. Source: 10 months ago

• I'd like to interview redditors here about their favorite distro release.

  I'm daily driving Gentoo GNU/Linux (https://gentoo.org). I prefer it over other GNU/Linux distributions because it allows me to customize the operating system down to a lower level. I'm also planning on installing Linux From Scratch (https://linuxfromscratch.org) for educational purposes. However, I might end up daily driving it. I do extremely difficult and tedious activities on my computer just for fun and I... Source: about 1 year ago

• Is the Gentoo Wiki down?

  I can't access any of the gentoo.org services at this time (forums, bugs, etc.) They all report server errors. Source: over 1 year ago

• Did it tell me the truth? LOL

  Surely this info is on the official site, gentoo.org, so you don't have to worry about asking? Source: over 1 year ago