• I ran Gentoo for years. I run Arch now.

      You’re not wrong, lol.

      'Course, I was running Gentoo when hardware was slow enough that you could see the real-time performance improvement from tailored compiles. Now shit’s so fast that any gains are imperceptible by a human for day-to-day desktop usage. Arch can also be a bit of a time sink, I get it, especially setting it up takes time and thought. That’s also why I like it, and always come back to it: I can set it up exactly how I want it, and it’s really good at that. There’s always weird shit that seems to happen to me when I try to remove Gnome in Ubuntu or other crazy shit that, yeah, everyone would tell you not to do, but Arch doesn’t care. If I want combination of things, I can hunt for a distro that has it, or I can likely just set it up on Arch.

      After setup, though, it’s not any more effort to maintain than any other distro. shrug

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        Removing things others tell you not to do. Yes, that sounds familiar. Maybe I should try Arch sometime.

        I’ve just finished my current version of my script to change ubuntu around to my liking. At 4:23 in the night/morning. I’m back on ubuntu because I can never seem to get the graphics working just right on other distro’s. There’s always that screen tearing happening whenever I play youtube videos in firefox. But in ubuntu it just works out of the box.

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      Binary speed is really the least reason to use Gentoo.

      There are a lot of thorny issues in package distribution that source builds completely sidestep.

      Install-it-yourself plus source updates are a lot to ask, but if you can get the hang of it the benefits are pretty sweet.