I’ve never had high end machines but I don’t remember installing being a chore on Gentoo even 20 years ago. Just
emerge openoffice
And let it do its thing in the background
But I went to use OpenOffice, not watch it do its thing in the background…
Anything that isn’t the bootloader is just bloat
Bloatness is just an excuse to avoid all the problems of installing a new program in Gentoo.
Hang on, what? You’re talking about the extra time (and electricity), or do you think it’s in any way difficult/error prone?
I’m talking about laziness. And that stuff you named too.
I’m so confused. Gentoo users are too lazy to run
sudo emerge thing?
Please, tell me they don’t have to compile everything.
That’s kind of the point of Gentoo. Though it’s not as hard as it sounds, the package manager (emerge) pretty much does it for you. It just might take a while.
They don’t have to. They GET to.
They actually don’t but it is the way programs are installed on gentoo by default.
Gentoo has optional binary packages now.
Compiling Firefox on my old ThinkPad took 9 hours
