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          Yeah, it just it might take a long time depending on your hardware. Stage 3 tarball installation took more than 2 days on my netbook (years ago). I don’t want to imagine compiling LibreOffice on that hardware. :)

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              That’s actually nice to know. Though if I’m gonna use Gentoo, I’m gonna compile everything.But I wouldn’t do that without a really beefy machine too.

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                It really doesnt take as long as you would think. I did it on a chromebook. Kernel and webrowser are the only things that take awhile and its only a few hours. When i did it on my gaming desktop it was barely any time.

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                  I actually haven’t tried Gentoo on my main machine for a really long time so I can only guess. With 6 cores 12 threads it should be fast enough I think. Gotta admit I’m surprised that it does that well on a Chromebook.

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                    oh no compiling kernel and webbrowser on a chromebook took over a day and was incredibly painful. Sorry for the confusion.

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                I have Ryzen 3700X and it’s doing fine… not to mention I have a lot of uptime, and it can build on the background.

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                  Oh the temptation! Nowadays I’m actually tempted by Void but it seems my compiling times would not be bad with Gentoo either. Though currently I have no reason to change my setup unless it’s severely broken but I gotta keep these in mind.

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                    I skipped Arch, went straight to Gentoo with OpenRC and dwm.

                    You can’t convince me to go back to binary blobs.