krissen

Hi! Thank you for the reply. The link in your comment does indeed work.

Try opening this comment in Avelon: https://lemm.ee/comment/1870509

It contains a community link that does not work in Avelon. Does work in some other apps. I'll try writing it on an emtpy line next in this comment, to test if Avelon then recognizes it. That is, if it's something in the surrounding text in the linked comment that might be the issue.

!gentoo@lemm.ee

The question you ask in the title is a more general one that you ask in the title.

Yes, Gentoo is a good choice.

No, it is not worth compiling every package. This should not be the main reason you choose Gentoo.

Admittedly, I started with Gentoo for the same reason (per-package compilation), hoping for performance gains. However, I stayed because of the excellent documentation, the great user community; the rolling versions; the customizability and control I have over my system, the choices I need to make when installing, and keep making as the install is continuously set up over the years.

I’ve tried quite a few distros over the (+20) years of Linux-use. I keep choosing Gentoo.

Those four actions (upvote, downvote, reply and save) for sure. Other possibilities might be collapse commentSensible defaults and possibility to customize would be ideal.

As to which those sensible defaults should be, setting it to Apollo's might be a good start. This post has a screenshot at the top which shows which those was, I think.

Voyager's settings, soon to be customizable it seems, can be gleaned here, I believe.

Also, the excellent documentation and helpful user base makes it quite possible to learn your way around the system from install and onwards.

Had to scroll too far to find Gentoo.

Oh no! What an ordeal.

Can relate to the sensation of tasting madness while others are watching you swatting your head like it is the fly itself.

Had a fly so deep in it couldn’t be seen. But I could feel it fluttering. Would not recommend.