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I have fond memories of spending long nights recompiling with new flags to try and get slightly better FPS in games... this was over 25 years ago so not in the proton heyday we have now.

These days I'm a fair bit lazier, throw Fedora on and use it happily. update frequently and it almost never causes me any issues.

The Gentoo Forums were a super fun and friendly place back then, I hope they haven't lost that spirit.

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Gentoo has pre built binaries for years now - you can be totally lazy about that ...

And still benefit from packages/system being smaller/faster because they are not built to cater for all possibilities.

And you can still override options (use flags) and compile some things exactly as you want/need them.

It is super nice to be able to mostly use binary packages but build from source anytime you want different options:)

oh thats nice. maybe if i ever feeling rebuilding i'll look into it again.

but truly, I've been using this install since 33... and am on 44 atm. never have i has such a slick trouble free experience. I've had one nvidia related issue once... I also had to rebuild a mirror once because i wanted to update more than i wanted ZFS, and they were updating the kernel faster than the zfs package was updating. not a big deal. I've moved on happily.

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