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I'm running Gentoo on my gaming PC, and would not want anything else.
It's very customizable, as it allows to tweak packages' optional dependencies at compile time. It's also rolling release, so no stress with distribution upgrades. Despite that, it's also very stable (most of the time...).
So far the only downside I've seen is that updates can take a while, as almost all packages get compiled from source.
Gentoo is.. well I wouldn't exactly call it nice, but neat? :)
I've played around with it a bunch but grew impatient with it. The compile times was terrible for me back then.
Gentoo and Arch do have their niche though. Takes a bit longer to set up but they're quite customized to your liking when you're done.
Nice :)
I remember people setting up build servers on their home network to ease the burden of compiling on slower machines back in the day as well.
@nlm yeah, I'd like to have a little Gentoo build server in the cloud some day for all my machines but thankfully there are a few binhosts out there already doing much of the churning, and even the official tree has -bin packages for the resource hogs.
Oh nice, that ought to make things a bit snappier!