The mouse isn't gentoo's logo, that's the logo of XFCE - the window manager. XFCE is supposed to be a small, light WM, thus the logo. It's not designed to be infinitely customizable like others, so it tends to look a bit sparse and, as you noticed, ugly-ish in some cases. It's an ideal choice, because the Pi still has a relatively speaking underpowered ARM core processor that struggles with graphical things.
That being said, if you don't like it you can install a new WM, or...just use the command line like the LORD intended.
Ya know, I did try to install Gentoo once, but the zoo got really pissed at me when I tried to take one of their damn penguins. Not sure how it would fit in the computer anyway.
Yeah in the end with raspi it's command line, even just i3, well it works, and not that bad... But yeah, it's not like this is a perfectly "normal" computer
It's a raspi
That being said it's 64bit now with the 4, I haven't tested so I can't tell, mine is a later model B, 2011, made in UK
It runs neogeo games surprisingly and it runs genesis games also, no frame drop, but forget about snes games, needless to mention mame in general
Wow, still rocking an original B. I have a few of those laying around, but the two that run my network are a 2 and a 3, along with an Odroid C2 to handle the networking tasks that require a real Ethernet port. My original B units don't get much use these days, I should find something to do with them.
I can see why SNES and MAME are killing it tho a single core 800MHz ARM isn't anywhere near enough to handle the emulation properly with a giant OS in the way.
Even without giant OS, it just can't handle snes emulation without something like 50% frame drop
However, neogeo emulation works fine, surprisingly... I guess this has to do with the neogeo processor which is maybe "a closer relative" to ARM types. I'm not sure, but I don't see any other explanation, because a neogeo is supposed to be a bigger animal than a snes, so it doesn't make much sense to be able to run neogeo but not snes, unless there's a trick, somehow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_(system)#CPU
Main CPU processor: Motorola 68000 (often a second sourced version, usually by Toshiba or Hitachi) @ 12 MHz (16/32-bit instructions @ 1.75 MIPS[26])
CPU co-processor: Zilog Z80 @ 4 MHz (also used as audio controller) (8/16-bit instructions @ 0.58 MIPS[26])
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Now I don't know much about processors
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