I kinda feel like venturing into gentoo territory.
Should I do it?
Should I compile every program I want to install?

Gentoo 😍

@Linux are the extra long install times really worth it?

@ElectricCoffee
Yes!

@Linux please elaborate

With Gentoo, yo have absolute control and choice.

Make sure you get your use flags right!
If it's your first time and you don't know *that* much about them, you could check, optionally copy the portage config in sabayon :)
There are also the portage profiles I Gentoo, that usually covers most bases.. :)

Oh and regarding programming languages.. To me eselect is a god send..
Being about it simply eselect which version of php, python, ruby <3

One thing that has rubbed me sideways though.. Getting my gtx 1070 to work fully as I want.. :)

@lotd I don't think I mentioned anything about programming languages 😅

@ElectricCoffee figured it's worth pointing it out here :p

@lotd one thing I'd like to know though. How do you install software you don't have the source code for? Like, is it still possible to install prebuilt binaries on gentoo?

@ElectricCoffee write a ebuild :)

@lotd you need to elaborate on that

@ElectricCoffee didn't catch the "you don't have source code" part.. :p

Well in that case, download the file, extract to respective directories (or simply /opt) then link the binary file to /usr/bin :)

@lotd sounds like hell :P

@ElectricCoffee To some degree..
You have ro resolve dependencies manually however equery depends foo can be quite useful in that case..

I think sabayon may be more useful in the case of binary files tho.. :)