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by UncleMeat 2458 days ago
I'd wager that fewer than 1/100,000 humans on the planet could feasibly build Gentoo from source.
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edoceo 2458 days ago
I've done two "stage one" builds of Gentoo. I'm not super skilled but, I had a lot of time and reference material. My bet is that folks could but would not want to. There is significant time cost.

Also, I'm still using one of those original builds on my laptop - upgraded of course...still mad love for my daily driver.

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shrimp_emoji 2458 days ago
>folks could but would not want to.

And so they never learned, and so they "can't".

In the same way, I can't use Gentoo or vim or compile either or ski or... :D

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inimino 2458 days ago
It's a pretty automated process. I'd estimate 1/10 of all people who can use a computer and install software at all could do it if they wanted to and had sufficient time.
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