Comment by isatty
10 months ago
Compilation is so fast on modern processors that it’s not even much of a hassle.
Portage is the best package manager out of any distribution.
There are no buts. Gentoo is awesome.
10 months ago
Compilation is so fast on modern processors that it’s not even much of a hassle.
Portage is the best package manager out of any distribution.
There are no buts. Gentoo is awesome.
I am told that there actually are precompiled packages available in Gentoo now.
this is correct, there's even a precompiled kernel (dist-kernel), it works great! and when packages doesn't match your system settings, portage will pull the source and compile them. it's great!
YMMV, I spend a couple of days last summer trying to get a Gentoo install with KDE running and after I changed something which caused a libc recompile, which took over an hour, I was so fed up I went back to Arch.
...granted, my potato only has an i7-6700 Skylake with 4 cores+hyperthreads for 8 threads at 3.40GHz, it's not one of those AMD Ryzen things, but still: I'm not running GNU/Linux because I want to buy a new PC every year.