Who doesn't like the running symbols in the terminal?

Man updating packages by compiling them is so stupid

Oh look 15 updated packages from AUR

I always go with the binary version if it's available in the AUR, ain't nobody got time for that.
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- Oh you mean the [package]-git gang
I mean yes if time is an issue, but compiled code on your own hardware is specifically tuned to your machine, some people want that tiny tweak of performance and stability.
- The point being most AUR packages are compiled on each update
- I use both for different purposes. Gentoo’s feature flags are the reason I wait for compiles, but only for computers a touch the keyboard with. Everything else gets Arch.
- would you mind elaborating on the benefits? like what does one actually gain in a real-world scenario by having the software tuned to a specific machine?
  disk space aside, given the sheer amount of packages that come with a distro, are we talking about 30% less CPU and RAM usage (give or take), or is it more like squeezing out the last 5% of possible optimization?
It's nice to have the option though!
- That's why Gentoo now has binary repos!
is so stupid
Until you learn about compile flags. It's mostly about customizability.
- Clearly I shouldn't have missed the /s

Special Fuck You to:

clang
LibreOffice
Firefox
llvm

I only use dwm, so no idea how long it takes to compile KDE or ~~Gentoo~~ Gnome.

Everything else is so quick. Just those four take 20-30 minutes each.

Before I had a proper internet connection (had to ask permission to borrow a dial up account) I bought a magazine that had a picture of a cow on it saying that Larry the cow was different. It was a DVD image of the stage one mirror of this new fangled Gentoo thing.
Learnt from the magazine how to install a bootloader and so on and then "bravely" typed emerge world into the terminal after configuring the list of all the packages I wanted. Including a full desktop (KDE I think but may have been Gnome). And Firefox. And Open Office. And some multimedia stuff I don't remember.
On a Pentium ii.
Took a week before I could do the next step :D
Might I add:
GCC
webkit-gtk
qt as well
You forgot rust

12 hours, yes? My first Gentoo install took like 3 times that for all the things stupid me wanted to have.

So I take it you did not install OpenOffice?
- I think there were binary packages for it and Firefox, I wasn't completely unprepared.
Relatable. Me: wants musl libc and to build stuff with clang (so that it's not gnu/gentoo). Firefox: doesn't want neither muls, nor clang due to some god knows how old bug.
- Even under FreeBSD and OpenBSD they use GCC for things requiring it, which kinda highlights Gentoo philosophy's problem in this regard. Setting USE flags mostly globally seems like a cool idea, but when for customization it gets down to setting them for every package - one could as well use FreeBSD ports.

Assuming it actually compiled. Otherwise there are even more smug looks.

I am rolling a few Gentoo VM’s these days and it’s really not that bad to compile things these days and I am on an old ass (10 year) dual Xeon setup. I remember X taking a few days to a week to compile back in the 2000’s

Also how LFS users look down at Gentoo users after spending 6 years learning how to do everything themselves

Oh man, just today I was messing around with flatpak, where I tried building webkit2, which took ages, or almost an hour (to be more specific).

And I was thinking to myself if that's what Gentoo feels like.

I usually compile with --quiet-build=y, it doesn't have to be configures and makefiles blasting into a shell window the whole time. On the rare occasions where a build fails there's still the log in /var/tmp/portage/....

void linux

Linux voided

I use Arch btw.