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I get it, the learning curve is harsh but by the time you get through the install you will have learned a ton. The amount of time and energy most people spend in a given year fighting with MS bullshit is enough to overcome even the Gentoo learning curve.

No systemd, 100% customizable, an absolute nightmare to write malware for, runs forever on ancient hardware, stable as hell.... e.g. * Linux XXX-003 5.15.52-gentoo #1 SMP Sat Jul 16 10:40:39 EDT 2022 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux * Linux XXX-001 5.15.52-gentoo #1 SMP Sat Jul 16 15:31:09 EDT 2022 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

What am I missing?

I get it, the learning curve is harsh but by the time you get through the install you will have learned a ton. The amount of time and energy most people spend in a given year fighting with MS bullshit is enough to overcome even the Gentoo learning curve. No systemd, 100% customizable, an absolute nightmare to write malware for, runs forever on ancient hardware, stable as hell.... e.g. * Linux XXX-003 5.15.52-gentoo #1 SMP Sat Jul 16 10:40:39 EDT 2022 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux * Linux XXX-001 5.15.52-gentoo #1 SMP Sat Jul 16 15:31:09 EDT 2022 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux What am I missing?

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Worse aspects of Slackware and Arch, without any real benefit that isn't found or done better elsewhere. Besides being a bitch and a half to get installed (worse than Arch or Slackware, which is saying something), the compile times for software are (Or were the 2 times I tried it years back) were absolutely insane.

I get why it's "neat" to build from source, but in my daily driver, I have no desire to waste an entire afternoon/evening doing updates. With Slackware, you KNOW your building a frozen machine, and you plan around it. Arch goes the opposite way, and you know your getting a rolling bleeding release, but you also have very quick and snappy updating as well as surprisingly good stability.

I get why Gentoo exists, but I see it as a hobbyist distro as opposed to something you'd want to get real work done, or a rig for coming home and relaxing with 15 tabs open and a steam game playing.

P.S.: if you head over to protondb, and look up used distros when people reviews, more often than not the Gentoo users cannot play even very simple games where a *Buntu, Arch, or Fedora distro can

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Fair point about gamers, not one, but I don't really agree with the daily driver bit. It's my only distro, runs on three machines, and with distcc and throttles updates are a non issue as they can run in the background. I update ~once a month and machines have been stable for years.

I'll check out the references you mentioned appreciate the tip.