Very related and interesting discussion that got posted in the comments about the new Crubit thingie: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/embedder-dev/c/W_...

I tried Gentoo some 20 years ago or so for fun at home. I guess my naive thinking was that software specifically compiled for my hardware would run noticeably faster and "better".

But I didn't last for very long. I remember starting the install for a bigger app before going to bed, only to find the thing still building when I woke up. And as for the dream of more tailored builds, I never really noticed anything much different - I probably was too uneducated about build configurations, or - more likely - the differences just didn't matter too much.

Eventually, I switched to Ubuntu and never looked back.

So, I'm curious - is anyone using Gentoo as their daily driver, and what is the main incentive for you?

Compiling Chromium took absolutely forever 5+ years ago. I think a whole system took like 20% of the time that Chromium would take to compile. I can't even imagine with rust extensions added on top now. Gentoo was so awesome though but I had to switch to debian because I would just play with my configuration all the time and break things. One day I hope to return to using it though or setup another machine to use it.