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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Their post does not say but I'm sure the current economy is no small factor. Businesses are tightening belts because things are only expected to get worse. Sponsorship of a dwindling Linux distribution is an easy cut to justify.

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[–] mr_jay@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder what the number of users is various distros. I used Gentoo on my desktop around 15-20 years ago and really loved it, but now I prefer vanilla Debian. I think Arch took over a large part of the Gentoo user base.

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gentoo doesn't do user stats, so it's impossible to tell.

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[–] mr_jay@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Yeah, I know, I was thinking more along the lines of the Distrowatch popularity ranking of which specific pages get the most hits (and Gemtoo pretty low down these days).

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

I would expect Gentoo's rankings on Distrowatch to be lower than its actual uptake. I mean, it's an oddball distro, an old and well-known one whose reputation probably spreads more by word of mouth than anything else.

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[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 1 week ago*

If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that hardware costs being driven up dramatically has made it more difficult for their sponsors to provide infrastructure to the project for free.

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[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Gentoo is losing sponsors while a certain other distro keeps raking them in.

We truly are in hell

[–] dasrael@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Modern bitches too dumb to stage1 without AI.

[–] RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Linux accepts LLM code so I swapped to OpenBSD. It's a shame but I really love the community and humanity that comes from people, human beings, working together towards a goal.

I used Gentoo for a while before that and loved it but, alas, the community and Linux as a whole just doesn't share my values.

I would say, for anyone using Linux and looking for a change of pace, OpenBSD is awesome and is still in that space of "respecting the user"

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[–] elias_griffin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

OpenBSD has it’s strong suit and niche of Agency and Department usage across the world and does not give one snap, crackle, or pop about “users”. Thems the beans.

Also, I should sponsor Gentoo this is bad news and a harbinger.

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[–] RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Ironically I rather like the fact that OoenBSD's culture is a bit anti-user.

In my older age I'm discovering that being regarded with derision is another type of respect. Linux, like Windows before it, caters to its users. The BSD's respect you enough to assume you're smart enough to cater to it.

It helps that kernel code base is orders of magnitude smaller than the Linux kernel.