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# Gentoo
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Let’s take one step further into the “make your own distro” world and
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the memes. Although Gentoo is not *that* hard to install, Gentoo does
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not come with **any** precompiled package. Instead, you will have to
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compile everything yourself, and if you don’t know how to
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[RTFM](https://xkcd.com/293/), this distribution will make sure that
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you will. While yes, it *is* CPU intensive to maintain such a
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distribution, every compilable package will be able to fully use the
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entire set of available assembly calls your CPU has and you *might*
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get some performance boost from it. Keyword: *might*. In a lot of
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cases, you might not actually notice it, or if you do it might just be
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your imagination. But I won’t deny it’s a great distro for tinkerers,
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and you can easily make your own packages.
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Documentation for this distribution is pretty great and it can give
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you some nice insights on other distributions too, and you can choose
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whether to use Gentoo’s own init system or Systemd.
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As you might have guessed it, this is clearly not a distribution made
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for beginners, and avoid installing it on machines that don’t have
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good performance unless you don’t value your time. Below is the
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typical evolution of a Gentoo user.
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* [Homepage](https://www.gentoo.org/)
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* [Download](https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/)
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