submitted 3 years ago by poinck@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am looking for a distro that is based on Gentoo or is heavily inspired by it. I am a long-time Gentoo user and Debian on system where I don't have the time to maintain it. I love the flexibility of Gentoo, but although my hardware keeps up, I find my self often not willing to wait hours for an update on my main machine. I am glad that there are some binary packages for some programs and I use flatpak, too. But even though, updates take too long, time I want to spend using my computer. I thought of going to Debian everywhere, because it is stable and does not move too fast regarding major updates. So, Arch-based distros are no option for me.

Can someone of the community recommend any Gentoo-based distros?

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[-] poinck@lemm.ee 1 points 3 years ago

A normal world update after 60 to 90 days can take one day (including troubleshooting, if needed). I between I do only security updates, in most cases they are done within minutes depending on the package and there compile-time dependencies.

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