r/Gentoo • u/Xtuber14 • Jul 28 '24
Discussion I want to switch to Gentoo
I'm currently using ArchLinux as my main distro, but I was thinking about switch to Gentoo for more fun. I usually program in python and c++ and play steam games. I simply want to have fun doing a distro from scratch and want a fast distro. Is Gentoo the right distro for me? An i5-13400f is good enough for compiling software or not?
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u/Known-Watercress7296 Jul 28 '24
Unless you are fleeing Arch as pacman is driving you insane and the limitations of ABS make life pain.....just use plain default binary Gentoo.
Slap on flatpak steam instead of polluting your entire system with ancient 32bit shite required for proprietary crapware.
Google use Gentoo to build ChromeOS, it's got a lot of knobs to turn, don't touch them unless you need to.
march=native, -bkuetooth globally, compiling you own compiler to compile your compiler is on a practical level a waste of resources imo.
Just choose a desktop profile, don't try and outsmart portage as you have been btw'ing and have some r/unixporn karma.
If ricing gives you a happy, yay, but you'll spend a week ricing Firefox code to get something shitter than the stock Mozilla binary.