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Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them by eru on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @05:31AM (#43409824)
> I think this more due to the fact I ran Arch first and you then Gentoo first, rather than any real difference between them.

I can believe that.

> Gentoo is more stable than Arch by default, though. It's not actually a bleeding edge distro, but you can choose to run it that way if you wish. Gentoo is about choice.

I actually had way more trouble with stuff breaking with Ubuntu. That's because every six months, when I did the distro upgrade, lots of stuff broke at once and it was hard to do root cause analysis.

With a rolling distribution, it's usually only one thing breaking at a time.

Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them by johnisgood on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @07:23AM (#43410558)
Ubuntu et al. are notorious for breaking stuff. If you want to remove a package, it sometimes want to delete your Linux kernel. :|