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Funtoo Linux
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Reader supplied reviews for Funtoo Linux
Average rating
8.6 from 5 review(s)
Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-23
Votes: 9
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I looked for a distro which was, at the same time, a valid alternative to gentoo but easier to manage. I tried to install gentoo this year, 20 years after I tried it for the first time, but I had to stop after a week because of configuration problems.
I tried Funtoo that seemed to me a possible alternative and now I think it is a great equilibrium.
Everything worked as expected after the installation and when I did not find a program in the portage tree I was able to install it from its AppImage version or by decompressing the .deb version and copying files by hand, but this is a issue related to very few and secondary programs.
The system seems to be stable and working. I think I'll stop to continuosly change my distro.
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Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-29
Votes: 10
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When I encountered Funtoo the most meaningful contribution that drew me in at the time was the concept of a meta-distribution. Testing out management and building a metadistribution with select packages made life much easier and manageable. Particularly for resolving hierarchical dependencies of software that I needed. The brilliant use of git to manage a rolling distribution was also a major bonus! With MetaTools coordinating which packages are part of the meta-flavour of Funtoo. The bootstrap evolved methods are also great!
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Version: current
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-11-06
Votes: 14
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This is the best Gentoo alternative. It's easy to use, easy to customize because of so many desktop environments available.
The 2 negatves I have are-, getting rid of the GNOME desktop enivornment would be great- it's bloated, slow and not user friendly and it's difficult to customize.
I would also like more up-to-date versions of applications including ones I use a lot: Firefox, LibreOffice and Thunderbird.
Other than the 2 negatives above, Funtoo has been stable, easy-to-use and it has a lot of packages you can install, including a lot more by other repositories you can add in.
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Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-26
Votes: 9
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Funtoo is a great distro. It has been my daily driver for well over a year now and it has proved itself to be rock-solid and blazing fast.
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Version: current
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-01-16
Votes: 1
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Funtoo isn't what it used to be. It's slowly tacking toward more binary installs - forget trying to keep a locally compiled Firefox anywhere near a safe patch level. You must use "firefox-bin" to even sort of stay up-to-date with Firefox's multidinous security problems, which invites the question of "why bother, then, with Funtoo rather then Gentoo?"
Worse, it's has the same snarly USE/profile problems that Gentoo has, but a much less active community (moribund might be a more accurate description). It seems harder to even join the forums at funtoo than any other distro. The bugs.funtoo.org website is barely browseable for problems related to Funtoo's software.
If funtoo cannot find a more active and engaged community, it's probably not going to survive. The recent three week hiatus perhaps augurs ill for what is, in many ways, a technically innovative and useful distro.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Funtoo Linux
Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-23
Votes: 9
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I looked for a distro which was, at the same time, a valid alternative to gentoo but easier to manage. I tried to install gentoo this year, 20 years after I tried it for the first time, but I had to stop after a week because of configuration problems.
I tried Funtoo that seemed to me a possible alternative and now I think it is a great equilibrium.
Everything worked as expected after the installation and when I did not find a program in the portage tree I was able to install it from its AppImage version or by decompressing the .deb version and copying files by hand, but this is a issue related to very few and secondary programs.
The system seems to be stable and working. I think I'll stop to continuosly change my distro.
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Project: Funtoo Linux
Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-29
Votes: 10
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When I encountered Funtoo the most meaningful contribution that drew me in at the time was the concept of a meta-distribution. Testing out management and building a metadistribution with select packages made life much easier and manageable. Particularly for resolving hierarchical dependencies of software that I needed. The brilliant use of git to manage a rolling distribution was also a major bonus! With MetaTools coordinating which packages are part of the meta-flavour of Funtoo. The bootstrap evolved methods are also great!
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Project: Funtoo Linux
Version: current
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-11-06
Votes: 14
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This is the best Gentoo alternative. It's easy to use, easy to customize because of so many desktop environments available.
The 2 negatves I have are-, getting rid of the GNOME desktop enivornment would be great- it's bloated, slow and not user friendly and it's difficult to customize.
I would also like more up-to-date versions of applications including ones I use a lot: Firefox, LibreOffice and Thunderbird.
Other than the 2 negatives above, Funtoo has been stable, easy-to-use and it has a lot of packages you can install, including a lot more by other repositories you can add in.
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Project: Funtoo Linux
Version: current
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-06-26
Votes: 9
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Funtoo is a great distro. It has been my daily driver for well over a year now and it has proved itself to be rock-solid and blazing fast.
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Project: Funtoo Linux
Version: current
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-01-16
Votes: 1
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Funtoo isn't what it used to be. It's slowly tacking toward more binary installs - forget trying to keep a locally compiled Firefox anywhere near a safe patch level. You must use "firefox-bin" to even sort of stay up-to-date with Firefox's multidinous security problems, which invites the question of "why bother, then, with Funtoo rather then Gentoo?"
Worse, it's has the same snarly USE/profile problems that Gentoo has, but a much less active community (moribund might be a more accurate description). It seems harder to even join the forums at funtoo than any other distro. The bugs.funtoo.org website is barely browseable for problems related to Funtoo's software.
If funtoo cannot find a more active and engaged community, it's probably not going to survive. The recent three week hiatus perhaps augurs ill for what is, in many ways, a technically innovative and useful distro.
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