Is Gentoo Worth It? Do I get to compile my own compiler?! (Arch/ish user for a few years. Ubuntu/Deb...

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Is Gentoo Worth It? Do I get to compile my own compiler?! (Arch/ish user for a few years. Ubuntu/Debian before that.)

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New to Gentoo and as an arch user, it looks intimidating. I have older hardware so I know a local compile job would help - especially when getting any sort of VA hardware acceleration with an R300-Mesa driver’d Radeon RV380.

On arch I have to build Mesa. Same on 32-bit Intel i915g Mesa driver’d laptops. So archlinux32 has been interesting.

Gentoo tho, still seems like a challenge. Different workflow for install I guess. Portage seems fun enough. Much more customized per program than pacman’s makepkg.conf

But then I see NixOS and it seems like that is… enticing albeit time-consuming….

… and the ADHD and system commitment anxiety kicks in. But damn it. I wanna get gains from compiling my compiler.

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