A year on Gentoo after Xubuntu and macOS: my experience (I like it)

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tldr: Although I am a fan of jumping on different sides of reality, with Gentoo I found a sense of harmony. Gentoo is high quality, well-developed, I don't feel like the project is dying. I got performance, minimalism, and you don't have to wait a year for the current version of Debian / Ubuntu, for example, Audacity. Gentoo just works, I don’t spend a lot of time setting it up - I installed everything, now the browser, Vim, and sometimes system updates.

First of all, welcome to Gentoo ! You are about to enter the world of choices and performance. Gentoo is all about choices. When installing Gentoo, this is made clear several times - users can choose how much they want to compile themselves, how to install Gentoo, what system logger to use, etc. Gentoo is a fast, modern meta-distribution with a clean and flexible design. It is built on an ecosystem of free software and does not hide what is beneath the hood from its users.

Now in more detail

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/etc/portage/make.conf:

# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more
# detailed example.
COMMON_FLAGS="-O2 -march=ivybridge -pipe"
CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"

CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx f16c mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3"

USE="glamor libinput -pulseaudio -qt5 opus vpx ffmpeg -proprietary-codecs -cdda -dvd -bluetooth -closure-compile -cups"

# NOTE: This stage was built with the bindist Use flag enabled
PORTDIR="/var/db/repos/gentoo"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"

# This sets the language of build output to English.
# Please keep this setting intact when reporting bugs.
LC_MESSAGES=C

# Without this cannot "grub-install /dev/sda"
GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc"

# ipw3945 needed for ThinkPad wireless firmware
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE ipw3945"

VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965"

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UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.

Dennis Ritchie

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# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI=7

PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7,8,9} )
inherit distutils-r1 optfeature virtualx xdg-utils

DESCRIPTION="Multiple GNOME terminals in one window"
HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator"
SRC_URI="https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"

LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~x86"
IUSE="test"

RDEPEND="
	dev-libs/glib:2
	dev-python/configobj[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
	dev-python/psutil[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
	dev-python/pycairo[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
	dev-python/pygobject:3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
	gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas[introspection]
	x11-libs/gtk+:3
	x11-libs/vte:2.91[introspection]
"
BDEPEND="
	dev-util/intltool
	sys-devel/gettext
	test? (
		dev-python/dbus-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
		x11-libs/libnotify[introspection]
	)
"
distutils_enable_tests pytest

PATCHES=(
	"${FILESDIR}"/terminator-1.91-without-icon-cache.patch
	"${FILESDIR}"/terminator-1.91-desktop.patch
)

src_prepare() {
	xdg_environment_reset
	sed -i -e '/pytest-runner/d' setup.py || die
	distutils-r1_src_prepare
}

src_test() {
	virtx distutils-r1_src_test
}

pkg_postinst() {
	xdg_desktop_database_update
	xdg_icon_cache_update

	elog "Consider installing the following for additional features:"
	optfeature "D-Bus" dev-python/dbus-python
	optfeature "Desktop notifications" "x11-libs/libnotify[introspection]"
	optfeature "Global keyboard shortcuts" "dev-libs/keybinder:3[introspection]"
}

pkg_postrm() {
	xdg_desktop_database_update
	xdg_icon_cache_update
}

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