I've been using gentoo for exactly two months now, decided to reinstall like 3 days ago so i can configure a few things differently... (just lying, i went back to arch for like 2 hours then came back because i just couldnt have all the bullshit running in the background, obv im talking about systemd and some other shit... I know i can use something like artix or some other arch based spin, but nahh.. i really love the amount of control i have in gentoo.. and im not an idiot when it comes to setting up shit to work efficiently. One good thing i can say about coming back from arch is that i can really configure portage properly this time.. im getting comfortable with the use flags and not just randomly adding a bunch of them everywhere with --autounmask. im seeing 20mb less ram usage since i came back(startup idle). my audio packages are organized and i use seatd now for my graphical sessions. i login in with tty and i have no grub, no elogind, no plymouth spash screen.. im fr the kind of user that doesnt even rock an app launcher anymore. but yeah.. glad i came back.. arch is just too easy & i love the gentoo optimization with march=native in the make.conf file.. ( i swear this was the one soul reason to why i wanted to use gentoo). btw.. i created my own wm. partially.. i used dwl as my starting point.. it has animations (noblur & screensharing aswell as fractional scaling, it does scale to 1 or 2 but nothing in between,, and yeah, 300lines of code less than dwl, 2mb less ram usage that dwl while keeping polished animations.
(my wm uses 18mb's of ram and 45mb of gpu memory, xorg with dwm uses 49mb ram and 72mb of gpu memory (dwm uses that with no vsync and compositor like picom)
I haven't released my window manager yet, but if anyone is willing to give it a shot i can post it to github.. I'm at my 6th review of the code polishing things up and i don't really see anything else to do yet.. btw, floating windows is not supported, as well as monocle. polkit's do float and some application specific windows do float and that's about it. its strictly master and stack layout.. and its like this intentionally.. this was made to be as suckless as possible. its really not for everyone) but yeah. my potatoe runs pretty well, and the only reason i went back to arch was because of how much software and programs are available
Bash fish or zsh? wayland or x11? multilib or no multilib? flatpaks or native builds? firefox or Edge? tty workflow or gui workflow? anything else is worth mentioning in the comments😘
I use upstream kernels, mainline stable ofc... dwl, firefox, zen, fuzzel, rwaybar, other misc apps including localsend... I mainly use the terminal for most things... Ive Been two years on linux and im still obsessed with the terminal (nobody around me knows what im doing no matter what im doing in the terminal)😂🤲 ... i started out with pop os, but it broke after the first reboot .. so i reinstalled it and the same thing happened to me again. thinking back at it, it was just sddm that failed to load... oms i was a noob using my first linux distro... But because of that experience, i went to ubuntu because it promised stability. i used it for like 3 months and opted in for arch because i wanted a really good base for hyprland. well.. i tried to installed it but was welcomed with a black screen (i expected it to be like a full DE with everything just working straight out the box but little did i know i literally had to configure everything. i fr thought something was broken) after that i rebooted my pc and installed kde plasma and rocked that for like a day after attempting to use hyprland again.. and i was so happy when i got something to open in it the first time.. it was the the coolest thing ever seeing the animation and the window snap into place. but yeah. got that going for me along with a waybar and later tried to use quickshell but couldnt coz it seemed a little more complicated to configure than an easy waybar and hyprland config. i tried the wiki out but it was speaking spanish.. tried using ai to help me out but quickshell was too fresh for that so i ended up rocking this random eww bar i found on github that didnt even have working workspace buttons... then i went to sway. liked it because my web browser worked nicer using it... i went back to hyprland and rocked that for a little bit configuring a new waybar setup everyday .. (Will comment the rest of my journey a little later, i have to go now)