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What's the point in using Gentoo? I understand that everything is built from source, but what's the purpose of that?

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  • 0
    Freedom and customizability?
  • 2
    @PrivateGER but you get that with other distros
  • 4
    Because "hur dur your going to change things in a completely foreign code base and waste countless hours!"

    Yeah, nah, not for me. That shit sounds retarded
  • 0
    @j4cobgarby No, not in that way.
  • 1
    I speak English, so I disabled NLS in all packages. Additionally, all packages supporting the following will compile with (+) or without (-) it:
    +bluetooth
    +pulseaudio
    +i3
    +git
    +zsh-completion
    +vim-scripts
    +offensive ;)
    +flac
    +ffmpeg
    +wifi
    +unicode
    +sound
    +threads
    -alsa
    -X
    -nls
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    it's something when you know what every single entry of lsmod is and what happens on every run level and when your system boots in 6 seconds flat (excluding BIOS)... but for me I see gentoo more as a learning experience than a system I'd use day to day, I don't have three days right now to set it up right now :P
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    TL;DR : it's good for some cases with all its configuration

    I used gentoo for some weird no-name server blades and the whole configure it as you need concept that gentoo is based on saved a great amount of performance, not to mention the reduced clusterfuck that it had prior.
    Bottom line if you need a kind of lfs and have to spin it up quite fast gentoo is a go to distro
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