[lucasvr_br]

I run GoboLinux on all machines I own. The distro provides an infrastructure for experimenting with different ideas at the filesystem and package management layers, which are activities aligned with my personal interests. I've been a core developer since its early days for a reason :)

The problems are associated with the fact it's a niche, research-oriented distro: due to the lack of man-power, one often needs to write compilation recipes for several programs (and potentially having to patch them) before being able to build and run them. Many things that are taken for granted when you run a major distro are not there.

Despite the limitations, I always have a hell of a good time developing and using the distro; it's been 18 years so far. We also have a small community of people who identify themselves with the distro's proposals and who are comfortable enough to live with its limitations. Many of them became active recipe contributors over the years.