> Peter via Dng said on 28 Dec 2024 10:41:21 -0700
>
>> What are the principal aspects against Gentoo for you?  Ongoing
>> requirements of maintenance time?
> As a guy who thoroughly tested Gentoo and Funtoo as possible escape
> mechanisms from SystemD in 2014, let me answer that:
>
> * Compiling every update takes a long time.
>
> * Messing with compile flags bestow many opportunities to introduce
>    bugs, crashes, etc.
>
> * Installation is a time consuming process, at least on bare metal.
>
> * Installation includes configuring and compiling your kernel, which,
>    if done wrong, requires you to either do the whole install again or
>    invoke your skills in chroot-foo. If you're anything like me, the
>    backward-referring relative thought patterns of chroot installations
>    is error prone.
>
> * Modern Gentoo comes with sYSTEMd, so Systemd has its camel nose in
>    the tent, and how long before they give up on OpenRC (which isn't all
>    that good itself)?
>
> Gentoo is for a very specific type of ultrageek who wants complete
> control over everything all the time. It is not, in my opinion, a
> general purpose distro.