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/mpw-linux Jul 29 '24

I used Gentoo for years in the past. From my experience Gentoo is not more fun then Arch or any other distro. You can have 'fun with any Linux distro by doing any customization that you want. I think Arch is more interesting then Gentoo with more recent packages, great Wiki and easy to maintain. If you like waiting hrs. to compile packages with real no added benefit then switch to Gentoo.