What a coincidence, Iām drinking mead and installing Gentoo. Currently compiling gcc, always takes forever, maybe I shouldāve gone with the recompiled binary for that one lol.
No ragrets.
mead
Do you really drink a honey based brew?
There is almost certainly a binary version of gcc in Gentoo. I ran Gentoo for 20 odd years and also generally insisted on compiling everything. I recall gcc going from v3 to 4. My laptop ran for over a week on a glass table with a prop to keep the fan vent unobstructed.
I probably should have learned back then that I didnāt really understand exactly how the toolchain worked and how to get from ebuilds to binary code really works. Iām a sysadmin and not a programmer.
With hindsight, I suggest that you pick your fights with care. Use the bin versions of entire packages where available and enjoy the flexibility of USE when it will make a difference.
gcc is not the biggest lump you will compile but it does take a while. It was rather slower 20 years ago.
Yep, I drink mead, i.e. honey wine. Itās really good, doesnāt give me as much of a headache as beer these days. Sometimes itās too sweet, I havenāt found a good dry one around here though.
I played around with Gentoo a few years ago, got it working but then got annoyed with some binaries taking too long. Wanted to build a machine I couldnāt hack though, and now thereās a repo with precompiled bins if you ask portage nicely, so I figured Iād give it a shot again. Maybe it was the mead but I forgot to do that for gcc though. oops
TY EVERYINE FOR ALL DA REPLIES DEBIAN IS PRETTY SICK, but not as sick as Iāll be tmrw worth it š
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Debian for 20 years with some formative years in Gentoo. Always went back to Debian. No regrets.
If you need new drivers then Debian is not the easiest distro. I love Debian but I do occasionally consider distro-hopping again to get some complex things working (like ROCm).
I do think Debian is an excellent starting place, though. If it suits you, great! If not, youāll have a better idea of what you need to look for going forward. Hopping distros isnāt the end of the world, after all.
