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To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors, from LibreOffice to KDE Plasma and from Gnome to Docker. Gentoo stable, updated daily. Enjoy! And read on for more details!

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[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Wait, didn't Gentoo have a binary cache? I seem to remember many years ago that I used one..

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

That weirdly makes me wanna try it less. That was it's whole thing. It's a convenient thing tho

[–] thecookingsenpai@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

When Arch switching to brew as one and only package manager

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Outside of the whole compiling from source thing, What are selling points of Gentoo over Arch?

Seems most Gentoo users I've ran into are either diehards about compiling their own packages or they've simply used it for over a decade and are super familiar with it.

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