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The Nvidia NVK driver comes to mind where it requires a more recent version of Rust than my system does. Another example would be the OpenMW engine requiring a modern version of Qt. Both of these 2 examples require me to compile the Rust and Qt toolchains themselves before attempting to compile the projects depending on them. I'm yet to succeed with these 2
For the most part it's just a matter of integrating newer libraries into the system before compiling the actual project. Getting newer Mesa drivers on this system was probably the biggest of them all. I had to compile (LLVM toolchain, newer GCC, newer Python as well as some small libraries which Mesa depends on). As of recently I had to learn how to properly compile, configure and integrate a newer version of Xorg server as it was too old to run the Zink driver.
I could do away with all of this by installing a modern distro or a rolling release version, however I wouldn't learn much doing so.
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I Gentoo.
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Currently I'm using Fedora KDE on my desktops and laptops.
My SteamDecks are running SteamOS of course.
I recently built a custom retro machine using a Raspberry PI 5. I added a cooling solution to it and a m.2 ssd adapter so I could run Raspberry PI OS / KDE from it.
I put it in a transparent Amiga 500 case from a1200.net and cabled it up with a1200's accessories kit and some bits from Amazon.
From icomp.de I got a custom Keyrah board which allows original Amiga peripherals to be connected as USB devices. This way I could use an original Mitsumi keyboard from an Amiga 500 which fits the case. Also original joysticks can be connected now. I replaced the beige key caps with black ones from, again, a1200.net.
That's all I've got running at the moment.
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Yeah. It was a nice project. You have multiple options of what to put in the case. Others put an actual a500 main board in. I choose a PI.
Gentoo has spoiled me thoroughly. I have tried several times to use another distribution on my laptop but seeing binary distros pull in packages I could easily avoid with `USE` flags makes me unreasonably grumpy. I've lost my tolerance for installing packages that are generically built for wide use-cases.
Lately I've been 'shopping round' looking for friendlier distributions for people in my life who are new to linux. So far it's been OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Pop_OS, Vanilla, and EndeavourOS, depending on the person and situation.
It also has a different mentality it's not "Oh? it's broken, well just reinstall." It's more "Oh? you broke it? Well chroot into it do this and that, reboot you'll have it working again.".
Like yourself, I manage many distributions for other reasons (servers, etc). But gentoo is definitely my go-to for my own usage now . I love this thing, I really do.
Suffice to say, Gentoo is great.
I'm going to stop fanboying now.
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