gentoo VS bedrocklinux-userland

> Gentoo does not accept art contributions of any kind (human/ai), there is just no place for this.

Okay, let's do a short fact check on that:

1. Visit https://gentoo.org, notice logo in top left: a first sign of contributed art.

sync-depth = 1 sync-type = git auto-sync = yes location = /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-git-verify-commit-signature = yes sync-openpgp-key-path = /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git ```

eselect repository add gentoo git https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git

And just wait till you discover Arch Linux, Gentoo, Guix, or NixOS.

I'm daily driving Gentoo GNU/Linux (https://gentoo.org). I prefer it over other GNU/Linux distributions because it allows me to customize the operating system down to a lower level. I'm also planning on installing Linux From Scratch (https://linuxfromscratch.org) for educational purposes. However, I might end up daily driving it. I do extremely difficult and tedious activities on my computer just for fun and I also happen to have a lot of free time. So don't question my choice of operating systems.

I can't access any of the gentoo.org services at this time (forums, bugs, etc.) They all report server errors.

Surely this info is on the official site, gentoo.org, so you don't have to worry about asking?

Back when I used a debian based distribution I made use of https://bedrocklinux.org/ to make use of the AUR. It's not for everyone though.

Now this is interesting... apparently it is possible to run Nix AKA "The Nix Package Manager" on Alpine -- despite the fact that Alpine is Busybox and Musl based and NixOS is Coreutils and Glibc based!

Well done Nix engineers and contributors!

(I may switch to Alpine w/Nix Package Manager in the future, depending on how well it works!)

Related:

Bedrock Linux: https://bedrocklinux.org/

Sure, just install Bedrock Linux and add the Arch stratum on top

There's a Bedrock Linux distro already...

Bedrock Linux. It is allows you to make a system out of various seemingly-incompatible parts of other distros. I haven't gotten around to trying it myself, but it's really cool.

If you want to actually use multiple distributions at once integrated tightly into each other (like using Ubuntu with AUR packages) I highly recommend https://bedrocklinux.org/. It uses some chroot and symbolic link magic to share files across filesystems.