My use case is much simpler. I access via RDP client and that’s all, not needing multi monitor

Plasma and Gentoo user here.

The transition has been so uneventful and simple that I didn’t even noticed. I run some 15 desktops with different mixed hardware setups and use VNC / RDP sometimes too.

One day I started noticing on some desktops Wayland was now in use, by chance. Then I started taking notice.

I can say the ones moved to Wayland are smoother, but might be aneddotical. Beside that, cannot care less about X11 or Wayland, they both work just fine for all my use cases.

For the sake of future, welcome Wayland!

/smallrant Sorry for X11, have to say I have been in the business since kernel version 2 and I DO NOT miss losing X11, its a bunch of half assed half baked spaghetti tech that has done its own time and would not have kept up with life. /rantover.

Yeah, good idea… After all, who needs copy and paste at all? Better remove it at the root…

/ssssssss

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 :)

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 :)

Again i am not interested in the technical aspect of systemd, yes i do like handling init scripts (OpenRC, not sysv…) so maybe i am a bit unconventional. The point i was trying to make was about how sustainable is having a core piece of linux that keeps growing managed by IBM and Microsoft, and if this was of concern with anybody else, which seems not to be the case.

Did you read my post at all? Maybe I am not clear enough.

I don’t care for systemd, I don’t dislike it I don’t like it. I don’t use it but merely because I never felt the need to use it, or I would have use it.

What people think of the non technical reasons given in the links/post is what I am asking. Is it just FUD or there is a valid base to them?