Gentoo is great if you value your time at $0.
I'd say it's more akin to learning vim, where there's a fairly steep learning curve at the outset, with huge rewards down the line.
Yes, initial install can take a while. Yes, system updates take longer when built than from binaries - but modern hardware makes that a fairly trivial difference. Most people who have a problem with Gentoo either only used it decades ago when build time were a lot longer, or because they heard it takes long, which is way more common than the former.
You need two sets of the "same" hardware, though. Then you get a build server with -march native
You don't need to customize it, but you can still get packages from third party overlays.
The customizability is available when you need it or want it.
Learning to use gentoo's basic functionality doesn't cost a lot of time, and I recommend utilizing only the basic functionality in most cases.
Just stick to the basics, and you will be fine.
Luckily Arch/CachyOS users don't have to worry about this as CachyOS offers optimised packages for modern CPUs. Until Gentoo offers an equivalent - without manual compiling needed - I won't consider it.
I don't. I think linus torvalds still just runs GNOME or KDE on fedora. Linus doesn't care about compiler optimizations on his own machines.
Does a web developer need to know latest compiler optimizations? Most of them don't.
If you use Gentoo and don't care about it, I'd say you're in the minority of those users.
Compilation options let you tweak programs. In my direct experiences, gentoo source packages break far less often than arch linux binary packages.
Didn’t believe it until I saw it.
try to get other people to value ur time...