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by machinebacon » Sat Dec 05, 2015 3:13 am
Even though I have no kids - gentoo is even for me much too much "work". Not that you need to do anything special for the emerge process, but to get to a full environment (say, you want X, a graphical browser, maybe an office suite, a media player, some editor, vym or zim, a PDF viewer, this and that) it will cost you another important factor: time. Said scenario equals 2 weeks of constant compiling.
Time spent for getting more or less the same crap that you get in Arch, Slackware, to 99.9% in Debian (and which, by the way, you can reproduce to 100% on any other system if you install from sources). As first time user, you won't play around with the flags before compilation, you will run into problems after 2 hours of trying to compile support for your nvidia card, just to either forget the idea of installing what you actually wanted OR cancelling it and going to bed, turning on the PC the next day to format the partition again because you are sick of looking at debug information in your spare time.
I have been there and done that with funtoo and gentoo, and both are somewhere in an unfinished state on some spare hard drive's 37th partition. The things I installed via emerge work just the same way they do on *any* other Linux distro, nothing is shinier, quicker, easier, better, worse, slower, uglier than the other. I just don't get my wasted days back *insert Frantic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tac*
If you got a life, scratch the idea and stay with Arch.
..gnutella..