Gentoo user here.

Of course I always build every package from source because that’s how Gentoo works.

Well, you get well optimized software for your specific cpu and architecture that often will not run on a different CPU. At the cost of lots of time.

For big ones like Firefox or rust I always choose the prebuilt ones… But everything else is from sources.

Also, another great advantage is to customize package features to your likings, like disable an audio backend or enable another, and such.

Navidrome + tempo (or any other subsonic clients)…

And spotizerr to fetch from deezer/Spotify once. Or Slskd for a nice soulseek experience

I think your autocorrect went a bit too far, I cannot understand what you wrote.

Using a different distro feels awkward. I am so used to how stuff is organized in Gentoo :) but it’s still Linux, so no, it’s only minor differences.

(Spcially, i hate when using a SystemD based distro, because i am not used to it and it honestly feels cumbersome compared to OpenRC. Gentoo also has SystemD support, it fully support it, but i never found the need for it, so i never switched, and never got familiar with it. My fault)

Last weekend i setup a laptop from deleting the windows partition to full LXQT desktop in 4 hours. The laptop is quite fast, and i skipped all ocmpiler hogs like firefox (choosed firefox-bin) and rust (choosed rust-bin). Later on, i also installed a full plasma+kde environment in some more 10 hours (all compile time in background, while using the laptop on LXQT).

The biggest downside of Gentoo is being so niche, i always fear that some day it will be abandoned due to too few people maintaining it. I had this fear for the last 10 years, and never happened, so.

There are no real downsides to Gentoo IMHO, except becoming too expert with Linux :)

Really, it’s mostly understand what your are doing and editing text files. Much easier and better documentation than most other distro.

Full time user of Gentoo since 20+ years here. Oll servers, workstations, laptops and even on an android tablet once.

It’s not complicated at all, mostly just different from anything else. And truly configurable to the last bit.

Edit: it seems there aren’t may gentooers here, AMA :)

I don’t care for the pwa since I use Markor on android and syncrhing…

Yes the looks are ugly and it’s been a pain with SSO and auth in general…

Let me know!

I like how your project looks more.

I currently use Silverbullet.MD, which is cool, but a bit too much for my needs.

Can you tell me the pros of using jotty instead?

Well, now try Gentoo!

It will take a few days of compiling… ;)

Cool idea!

But why would I use it? What advantage does I give me over traditional MD? The opportunity to use different filesystems on different disks? Or hot-add already formatted disks? I don’t really get it.

I love how smooth is photo field, and the way it makes browsing your photos so unique.

I think it’s a neat project!

I remember trying it. A very neat idea beautifully implemented. But switched to IMMICH, more features, closer to what I needed.

Keep up the great job! Having alternatives is always a good thing.

I loved photofield!

Never used calls…

I have gone down the matrix rabbit hole but i choose Continuwity, which is the successor to Conduwuit after the community drama.

It’s a rust server alternative to synapse, it’s lightweight and works very well.

Fuck synapse, it’s a colossal pain for small servers, not worth it. I also actively avoid anything related to the company behind it since I think they poison what matrix could be.

I wish I started with XMPP, but now I am selfhosted on matrix, so.

The GMK seems more configurable and cheaper overall.

Beside this, there is no real difference as far as Linux support, I think.

For fun, in the 90’s. Windows was cool still, but what Linux was at the time was just fashinating and I just loved it.

this is my own experience.

https://wiki.gardiol.org/

Sure you CAN do it, but it’s much more difficult than anything lse to self-host at home.

Dahua where top of the class, unfortunately hard to find today. I run like 8 of them.

Reolink maybe, but own one and not really at par with Dahua.

If anybody knows who is the successor to dahua, let me know.

Chaper than that, sorry, it’s going to be shit.

Don’t selfhost email at home. Tons of reasons why won’t work, this is only the tip of the iceberg you are facing.

Indeed selfhost a mailserver, I do, but do it on a VPS. Of course, more the better, but a very cheap VPS is the bare minimum you gonna need.

No workaround there.