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Yessss...
Come to Gentooooo.
Come.
Muahahahhahaha. *Lightning & Thunder!*
Gentoo is easy and almost user-friendly.
Specially coming from Arch it should be a breeze.
Plan9 sounds like a more exclusive deal.
As someone who installed Gentoo from nothing but a Stage 1 iso and kernel tarball back in 2003, this is crazy to read. I was able to squeeze so much performance out of a 300mhz embedded board back then though compared to most distros... after the 6hr kernel build.
Stage 1 and 2 are no longer available (I mean technically you could, but it's not suggested). Stage 3 was super easy, even with kernel from source.
It takes time, sure, but it can compile on background. I got 16 threads on my CPU, so leaving 12 for emerge, I can still use the PC.
I get that people joke about 'days of compiling', and maybe it's real for a huge mass of packages, but even if, it doesn't stop me from working.
Remember, the days of compiling was back when we were running this on 300-500Mhz single core CPUs with 5400RPM spinning rust and RAM amounts in the hundreds of MB.
The embedded system I was putting this on was a 300Mhz single core low power AMD processor with 256MB and a laptop 4200RPM 4GB drive. And yeah, it probably took over a day to compile everything... but it ran much faster than a stock kernel as I could customize the system to only have what it needed and leverage the on-chip ssl and video acceleration support. I used it for a NAS and home server for years.
I know, but that's so long ago, yet the jokes are here anyway.
Which is shame, as it seems to be scaring away potential users.
Less prone to randomly biting your head off anyway.
More tame.
Takes more petting though, to get it to settle.
Really?
I never tried Arch, so I can't compare.
Apart from initramfs from install, which took more time, it felt like everything else just worked. Including installing Steam.
Yes. Gentoo really is like that compared to arch.
Oh.
That^ made it seem to me like you had.
I just read a lot of Wiki.
But when I discovered how cool it is to compile stuff, I went straight to Gentoo, assuming it's mostly the same apart from packaging.
Before I tried gentoo (or rather sabayon, for 3 years before gentoo proper), from all the "you have to compile everything", I imagined that as a lot of running "make". I didn't realise it's even easier^1^ than other package managers.
^1^
emergeis shorter to type than e.g.apt-get installYeah, it's insane how easy to use Gentoo is.
Nobody will take it from me. But I admit to only using it on desktop, laptop is using Mint. If I ever find time to play around with a build server, I will try switching there, too.