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Real benefit. For average users it's debatable but if you want to exclude certain components or have complex dependencies "just work" without tons of docker images or need bleeding edge performance by tweaking everything, I don't see any other choice.

Also if you need to seamlessly integrate new projects that don't provide packages, writing a live ebuild is straight forward and will keep updated from a regular git repo just like any other package.

Want to compile certain stuff with clang and the rest with gcc? Or use libressl instead of openssl? Stuff like that? No problem. Just be aware that you might need to file bug reports if you do exotic stuff because gentoo won't prevent you from doing stuff nobody did before.

And installing gentoo by going through the install manual step-by-step, is certainly priceless for diving into linux under the hood. It's a bit like a LFS but without the hassle.

What part of this don't you understand?

I understand all of it. I just point out your dilemma. Your whining will get you nowhere.

You're a user not willing to read manuals completely but expect stuff to work at your fingertips. You'll get older and as stuff keeps changing, you'll find it harder and harder to catch on. You'll spend a shitload of money to people promising the ease of good old patterns you are used to but you just can't keep up with folks using more efficient techniques.

And well, FOSS just doesn't seem to be your thing. Obviously, you need to unload your frustration on some service hotline worker... or random people online.

I was talking about all *nix-typical principles. e.g. that everything should integrate into batched jobs. Modularity. Human readable error messages. Transparent logging. Integrated software repositories & version control, man pages. file permissions & user groups. etc.

Stuff that seems strange and unnecessary complex for new users, who don't know how to use stuff.

I'm talking from a users perspective.

no, you're talking from a patreon perspective. You have no clue of the subject and you simply demand people serving stuff the way you think is best. Also you don't care why things are the way they are.

Basically a Karen User.

The vast majority of people don't know - or care - how their car works. They just know it has to start.

Exactly. The vast majority buys a $50.000 car and only use 2% of it's features. And if the manufacturer starts to charge for a feature you like or decides to spy on you, there's nothing you can do about it.

Which principle exactly? Early motif UIs still are in use in a lot of nieche applications.

Not saying UI design is easy or FOSS apps shine with excellent GUIs, but they work for their users and complaining doesn't help.

My point is: Either improve the UI or pay someone to improve it. Or at least make a suggestion to the devs but don't blame linux people for not providing a free product perfectly adapted to your personal habits.

It's not a small library.

it's featherweight compared to Windows Desktop, tho

Wenn Signal es endlich auf F-Droid schafft

Das ist aber ein großes "wenn".

That's what I thought, hence I mentioned the bowl of water. Which was heated with wood or coal which had to be carried manually... in buckets... Imagine that :-)

That's the way all our great-grandparents did it. But with a bowl of warm water.

Uses just a fraction of energy & water. With the abundance of cheap energy, affordable piping and heating became affordable for the masses.

small amount of nerds who still use RSS feeds.

what? every major news outlet worth it's salt is providing RSS. Tons of people (and bots) use it.

how they would drain it.

Since a lot of land is below sea level, the Netherlands basically dry pump their country all the time anyway.