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I can totally understand where you're coming from. You could definitely have a look into Linux - it is the most important OS for servers after all.
You should probably focus on servers or offers to companies though if you look into Linux - most of the basic consumer software/systems is community based and FOSS.
However, in terms of developer friendliness you won't find any better system.
*edit:* I forgot to mention that working on FOSS doesn't necessarily mean, there's no money to earn (with most big FOSS projects there's a company involved and fulltime dev's are being payed). Just for the sake of clarity. -
To add to what @theCalcaholic said.
Try installing arch first to get a bit comfortable with it and the you might go onto Gentoo. With Gentoo you get the source code for every thing you install. So you want drivers you can edit the source to only install what you want and you can tweak that code. Atleast that my understanding, this means you are free to do what you want. Feedback is being listened to and people are helpful. Take a a look at arch wiki. A company like red hat(linux) is huge, Android.
Focusing on linux is gonna be worth your while. For instance a graphic designer wants to render. Send it through our high speed internet and a server with x GPU renders it in a few seconds send it back. This reduces costs of having every work station with a heavy duty GPU. Don't know if it's already being used but I think it's coming. Why not design 3d from you browser when the internet speed is as fast as going to you're local GPU. -
@Triskelion Got don't even need Gentoo or Arch for that. The same is true for ANY Linux distro. :)
Only that with most distros you have the option to either compile everything from source (which you don't want, seriously) or use a package manager.
For the sake of convenience you will want to only compile packages yourself of your unhappy with available precompiled configurations or if you want to alter the source. -
@theCalcaholic
But he want to work on drivers etc.
With Gentoo you have full access. With arch less but you can work around it easy if you use Ubuntu or mint or x those drivers are prepackaged(harder to work around) this works for a normal user but if you want to go in deep Gentoo is the way to go
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@Triskelion Once tried installing Gentoo. Didn't turn out too well😕
Meh, I got a lot to learn. Definitely excited to learn it though. -
@DylanG
I've not made it to Gentoo I'm self educating my self to webdev. In the meantime I've dabbled a few Linux distro's DE/WM. atm I'm running Manjaro xmonad and I like it alot extremely stable and a joy to finally work with a solid tiling wm.
Gentoo is on the list though, but I need alot of time to wrap my head around it so for now it's shelved -
@Triskelion All prepackaged drivers are optional with Ubuntu/Debian. The only reason for using them is convenience.
I know a good number of people who compile their own debian kernels and/or drivers.
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