Just wanna preface, I’m not trying to like attack Gentoo or anyone that uses it, I just wanna understand lol
I’m like an intermediate Linux user I’m definitely not an expert, and Gentoo is something I’m still quite confused about. To me it just seems unnecessary, like the real version of people making Arch just seem incredibly complicated. Does anyone actually use it as a daily driver? Why? Is it just for the love of the game? Is there some specific use case I’ve not heard or thought of?
Not to mention the time spent. I’d rather spend that time and effort doing other things.
I’ve compiled plenty of programs, even the kernel. But that’s a means to an end. I’ve hunted down drivers and manually resolved dependencies to get them to compile. I’ve run on weird old platforms (Minix on a 286, but I don’t think I got the Ethernet drivers working there). Sure it’s interesting, but eventually I’d rather actually use the thing.
If you really want to compile your system, go do Linux From Scratch.