Right now I'm on Slackware which is a binary install and you install packages from source afterwards. I'm thinking of going full Gentoo with the X200 Thinkpad I just bought, however I don't want to spend days compiling Firefox and Libreoffice, so I'm planning on cheating and getting the binaries for those from Portage. What other packages take ridiculously long to compile on an X200 Thinkpad? Qt5? I don't want to cheat too much, otherwise that'd defeat the purpose of a source-based distro.
Why do people trust binary distros?
Liam Rivera
Noah Ross
Most people don't have the mental energy for Gentoo.
Christopher Edwards
All the packages that take long to compile have a binary alternative.
But don't bother, just let them compile, you don't have to update every single day.
Do like me, I forbid myself from updating if I've updated less than 30 days ago, and then I update when the computer is not going to see use during the day, and usually it takes 4~ hours to compile everything, although I have a high end cpu.
Tyler Reyes
Bull fucking shit. Lots of Gentoo documentation is outdated or missing entirely.
That is probably its weakest selling point ignoring the new CoC.
Benjamin Sullivan
And gentoo support is either none, the arch forums or being ignored at the official IRC.
Asher Ramirez
Now this is bullshit.
I've been to the irc and the gentoo fourms hundreds of times and they've always given me an answer or a place to start looking.
Alexander Wood
First time I see someone complain about Gentoo documentation.
I'm sure you've got lots of examples to provide then.
Justin Barnes
First time I see someone complain about Gentoo documentation.
I'm sure you've got lots of examples to provide then.
Wyatt Torres
Gentoo is absolute shit. Funtoo killed it years ago.
Xavier Gutierrez
Your post is absolute shit.
The least you could do is elaborate.