Kevin Boone: Gentoo vs. MX Linux on old-ish laptops
In this article, I’ll report my experiences with MX Linux, particularly how it stacks up alongside Gentoo. Now, it’s true that this is hardly a like-for-like comparison: Gentoo isn’t really a Linux distribution in the way that, say, Fedora and Ubuntu are. It’s more a collection of tools for building a Linux installation according to certain rules. Historically, Gentoo users have compiled most of their software from source, although recently there have been moves towards a measure of pre-compiled binary provision. Nevertheless, my criterion for comparison is simply this: how easy do these competing Linux variants make it, to keep old laptops alive and useful? So the comparison seems fair to me.