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Y'all actually use Gentoo, I thought is was just a joke
I said the same about ubuntu, debian, then arch. I believed arch and it's wikis/docs were the endgame. I stayed arching through college ( thought endeavorOS was arch meme for awhile, because why would you want an easier arch install? Turns out, college professors are incorrigible to a maddening degree, and finding so many linux workarounds got me in all types of trouble I didn't fully understand yet--better wipe and reset for sanity sake...again)
tl;dr I thought all non-windows were jokes before I found precisely what I was looking for all along.
EDIT: tldr itself reads like a joke, I'm just saying I thought almost all distros were a joke until I felt something better was missing--gentoo is where I've been for about a decade now. I'm quite worried nix or guix is the joke I will be maining in the future, but I don't seem to need any of it's features just yet, but who knows. I'm willing to be persuaded because of how wrong I've been...hell might get a comment today opens my eyes to the declarative life any minute now lol
I'm not saying you need NixOS. I'm just whispering from the darkness: you crave it
yeah I thought I was an Arch addict up until like 3 weeks ago when I decided to give NixOS a go...I just can't imagine myself anywhere else right now.
NixOS is the most boring distro I've ever used. I configured everything how I want it and now it all just works. If an update would break, it just fails. If it somehow does break, just rollback.
Want to set up a new machine with the same config? Pull and rebuild.