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>Nowadays, you can get binary packages from gentoo linux if you don't change USE flags. You don't even have to compile linux kernel anymore. Gentoo Linux has overlays. You can compile packages from third party overlays. Gentoo overlays are better designed than debian/ubuntu PPA(personal package archive)s and AUR(arch user repository).

Archive: https://archive.today/hR2j3 From the post: >>Nowadays, you can get binary packages from gentoo linux if you don't change USE flags. You don't even have to compile linux kernel anymore. Gentoo Linux has overlays. You can compile packages from third party overlays. Gentoo overlays are better designed than debian/ubuntu PPA(personal package archive)s and AUR(arch user repository).

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A lot of the complaints about Gentoo aren't that bad anymore. Compiling everything isn't too bad, minus a few large packages like Chromium, which you can get binary versions of. 8 core high performance CPUs have gotten so affordable, I even have one in my mid-range $1000 laptop. Looking at newegg, there are 14in laptops with 8 core Ryzens on sale for under $600.

The package manager has also gotten way better. I used to have to update once a month or packages would block and it'd be a pain to resolve everything. Now I can update every few months and there's not that much problem.

Gentoo is about the only way to have Linux without systemd and wayland right now and it's only going to get worse for all the other distros.

I've been running Gentoo for a while, I'm still on it. It's gotten a lot better and a lot easier to maintain. You still have to tinker with stuff but I haven't had a situation where you had to fight blocked packages on updates or had a bad update in a very long time.