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by banachtarski 2174 days ago
I went from gentoo to arch years ago. Unless you absolutely need to compile the universe from scratch on your machine all the time, don’t bother. Arch’s greatest asset is its speed and excellent binay distribution. Gentoo affords you none of that. If you just want to “learn” I suppose, then by all means.
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> Arch’s greatest asset is its speed and excellent binay distribution.

And its wiki.

> If you just want to “learn” I suppose, then by all means.

Yep that was the only purpose. But I don't see this happening anytime soon.

Excellent point regarding their Wiki. Gentoo's wiki is a great resource, too. What I like the most is that both have distro-agnostic information that apply elsewhere.