Please, tell me they don't have to compile everything.

Hang on, what? You're talking about the extra time (and electricity), or do you think it's in any way difficult/error prone?

Yeah obsidian is 5-5.5 on the moh's scale. It's softer than quartz. What makes it special is how sharp it can get, not how hard it is. Also, it's just really cool

Funnily enough, the one irl Linux user I've met used Gentoo. I originally assumed they used arch.

Former Gentoo user here. The thing I have in common with the other former Gentoo users I know IRL (a whopping 2 of them) is that none of us have the time for it anymore.

So if I ever find myself having too much free time, you bet your ass I'll reinstall Gentoo.

I'm a living proof you're the opposite of right 😁

Oh hell naw.

I am a proud and vocal Gentoo user.

And you won't make me to back to binary packages. Fuck them.

USE flags are the best thing ever, reminding us why software should be Open.

Gentoo 4ever.

portage is just the best package manager

Minecraft kids who don't know Mohs scale

Does flatpak steam have some problems? I don't use it so I don't know.

But I went to use OpenOffice, not watch it do its thing in the background...

Installing Gentoo itself isn't really any more difficult than Arch. Though I hear Arch has some easy way to install nowadays. It's kinda like installing Arch the old fashioned way.

At the end of the day if you follow the official installation guide, you'll be fine. If you miss a step, you get to learn valuable troubleshooting skills.

Installing anything is as easy as sudo emerge firefox, waiting for an hour for some obscure part in the compile process to fail, giing up, and doing sudo emerge firefox-bin. But tbh outside of browsers, most things compile fine unless you have esoteric optimization flags in your compiler config (-ffast-math breaks AV stuff for an example).

Ah and at some point you'll go "Hmm this six core CPU isn't enough, I need to upgrade to 16" because most of your packages will be compiled from scratch. And every update also compiles the same packages again (the ones that need to be updated, not all packages. Unless you specify that).

So why do it? It's fun, great learning experience and you can customize how your software is compiled (specify your CPU microarchitecture for compiler optimizations, use unsafe optimization flags if you want, use the USE flags to straight up leave functionality you don't need out of software). Also bragging rights.

It seems like it.

Lol dumbass. Everyone knows unobtanium is the strongest.