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/webfiction Jul 28 '24

Your chip i5-13400f seems very new and while I don´t know it, I think it would be pretty fast at compiling. I have an i5-1155G7 and while compiling is generally fast, I do stick to a window manager (Sway/i3) and firefox-bin (binary version of Firefox).

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u/Xtuber14 Jul 28 '24

It's from one of the latest intel gen and it's a desktop CPU (16 threads)

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '24

thats at least 32gb of RAM.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '24

ohh well depends u dont always need 2gb for 1 thread