Gentoo desktop?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 03:36:07PM -0500, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> I've been a long-term Debian user, but though I do love apt, I tend to
> find that it falls short in some cases. In particular, I haven't been
> overly pleased with using an AMD64 desktop vs the packages available
> using IA32, even for newer Debian-derived distros such as Ubuntu.

What difference do you find between i386 and amd64?  There really should
be almost none these days.

> Since I use my more powerful machine as part desktop, part workhouse,
> I'm interesting in switching to Gentoo as a desktop distro. I've heard
> good things about it in terms of performance server-wise, and am
> wondering if anyone has had much experience using it as a
> workstation/desktop (and as such, what's the availability of desktop
> software, media packages, etc like).

Well it is highly unlikely that gentoo will have any less problems with
64bit than debian, since the problems are almost always a matter of some
code not being 64bit clean.

> Any Gentoo desktop users out there?

I certainly never will be.

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