I dread every portage sync and upgrade of packages.
When it works, it works. But now you have to deal with Python depreciation every few months.
Every upgrade something might break which potentially has you spending your precious time on pointless maintenance, which could be better spent being productive.
My Gentoo forums account is from 2001. Back then, Gentoo truly was the learning distro. Starting from Stage 1 you learned a lot about Linux. Nowadays that's not the case anymore.
The young, idealistic me believed in Linux as means to freedom and betterment of society.
But what I met on those forums back in 2003 was ignorance and arrogance. Not exclusively of course, but more than in other forums I used to frequent.
The community also became toxic (has recovered) and the management intransparent. CoreOS used Gentoo as their base for their OS.
Double standards, maintainers could be toxic while bug reporters would get banned. I got banned when I told the PHP maintainer to do his job or step down. How dare I.
I wrote that Gentoo needed to be more transparent, Google had sent some money their way but nothing about that was mentioned. Entry for new, young people wasn't easy and still isn't.
They don't care. What they care about is donations and to have something to show for on their resume. But those donations remain intransparent.
Some elder staff are really cool, like Ned.
Well if there wasn't so much stuff on that server that migrating to a new one would be a long and cost endeavor, I'd have dumped Gentoo years ago.
I wouldn't know what to replace it with. CentOS is apparently shunned, Alma or Rocky? Ubuntu with their snaps is out of the question. Arch is not for the server, and it tends to break on a regular basis. Gentoo is just a pain in the ass to maintain. But on the pro side, you can have your own packages easily, well if you care to read the bits and pieces of the ebuild docs cluttered around everywhere.
Former Gentoo user here. The answer for me was NixOS. You still get a ton of control over your system. Packages are even easier to make in many cases. If you want an old version of python you're fine because you can keep the version pinned. Updating my system is done on a git branch so I can revert changes if they break something.
I didn't really want to switch but a combination of factors made it enticing. My SSD died and despite my many attempts at making backups I never had something that was simple enough to get back up and running quickly. There's just far too many things to manage when you're editing a bunch of random files in /etc or your home directory that I couldn't stand to do it again. With NixOS I've already switched machines and it was basically only partitioning that I had to do before I was back into the PC with all my software configured how I like.
Sorry to hear your experience with the community. Complete opposite experience for me - didn't encounter any toxic developers (well, a few well known jerks on the forums who were easy to ignore - someone else would always help me).
The Off topic part of the forums (e.g. "Off the wall") did require a thick skin, but you never needed to venture there and they did warn you about it in the description.
I can see how your attitude on the bug system could be incredibly annoying, but banning you is overkill.
I dread every portage sync and upgrade of packages.
When it works, it works. But now you have to deal with Python depreciation every few months.
Every upgrade something might break which potentially has you spending your precious time on pointless maintenance, which could be better spent being productive.
My Gentoo forums account is from 2001. Back then, Gentoo truly was the learning distro. Starting from Stage 1 you learned a lot about Linux. Nowadays that's not the case anymore.
The young, idealistic me believed in Linux as means to freedom and betterment of society. But what I met on those forums back in 2003 was ignorance and arrogance. Not exclusively of course, but more than in other forums I used to frequent.
The community also became toxic (has recovered) and the management intransparent. CoreOS used Gentoo as their base for their OS. Double standards, maintainers could be toxic while bug reporters would get banned. I got banned when I told the PHP maintainer to do his job or step down. How dare I.
I wrote that Gentoo needed to be more transparent, Google had sent some money their way but nothing about that was mentioned. Entry for new, young people wasn't easy and still isn't. They don't care. What they care about is donations and to have something to show for on their resume. But those donations remain intransparent. Some elder staff are really cool, like Ned.
Well if there wasn't so much stuff on that server that migrating to a new one would be a long and cost endeavor, I'd have dumped Gentoo years ago.
I wouldn't know what to replace it with. CentOS is apparently shunned, Alma or Rocky? Ubuntu with their snaps is out of the question. Arch is not for the server, and it tends to break on a regular basis. Gentoo is just a pain in the ass to maintain. But on the pro side, you can have your own packages easily, well if you care to read the bits and pieces of the ebuild docs cluttered around everywhere.