Gentoo does not have always the latest builds, not by default.
Updates depend on your amount of packages, hardware, and willingness to utilize that hardware for compiling.
I don’t use DE, just dwm+dmenu, so my biggest packages are Firefox and LibreOffice, which can take 3+ hours with dependencies. KDE or Gnome would most likely add more.
But you can put number of cores for compiling into config. If you have your PC on most of the day, you can set it to 1 or 2 and you most likely won’t even know about it.
Or, if you have 16 core CPU, let 14 do the compiling and you can browse the web with the remaining two.
This all assumes you have enough RAM as well. It’s not as bad, but you should have at least 32GB.
The distro is smooth, way more than anything I’ve ever tried, and I’m not switching from it.
Gentoo does not have always the latest builds, not by default.
Updates depend on your amount of packages, hardware, and willingness to utilize that hardware for compiling.
I don’t use DE, just dwm+dmenu, so my biggest packages are Firefox and LibreOffice, which can take 3+ hours with dependencies. KDE or Gnome would most likely add more.
But you can put number of cores for compiling into config. If you have your PC on most of the day, you can set it to 1 or 2 and you most likely won’t even know about it.
Or, if you have 16 core CPU, let 14 do the compiling and you can browse the web with the remaining two.
This all assumes you have enough RAM as well. It’s not as bad, but you should have at least 32GB.
The distro is smooth, way more than anything I’ve ever tried, and I’m not switching from it.