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+<!-- Title: Why I prefer Gentoo -->
+
+Why I prefer Gentoo over Arch.
+==============================
+A lot of people say very good things about gentoo linux, it is very well maintained,
+It is more secure, It is lightweight and so on. But when it comes down to it,
+very few people actuall use gentoo, I thing that is because they install it 
+and after a month or so they really get sick of waiting for the packages to compile 
+and they switch back to whatever they were using before. I know it becuase,
+I had done that in the past, I dual-booted my machine with gentoo and arch linux
+intending to only use gentoo, and arch only when I didn't have the time to wait
+for the package to compile, but ended up only booting to arch and almost never 
+to gentoo, at that time if you were to ask me the best package manager 
+I would have unhesitantly said arch's pacman, while I still thing that pacman is the best 
+<strong class="color1">binary</strong> package manager
+for the past few months I have started to really like gentoo and its package manager,
+portage and there are different reasons for that.   
+
+Compiling programs makes more sense than downloading.
+-----------------------------------------------------
+On unix like operating systems you generally use 
+open-source software and that software is made to be compiled by the users specific 
+to their machines, but on binary based distros you use programs that are compiled for
+you by someone else and again to me, personally compiling just makes more sense.
+
+It gives you more pespective of the program you use.
+----------------------------------------------------
+If you'd downloaded a binary package you would only be able to tell if a program is fast, 
+has enough features and so on, but you wouldn't have known how much time it takes 
+to compile, what the build dependencies are, and even sometimes the
+programming language that it is written in. I do agree that knowing those abstract details 
+of a package is utterly useless for a typical end-user who is not a programmer
+but for a programmer those details are very important, since you get to know what build systems are
+faster what programming language compiles faster, builds better and sometimes you learn 
+about things that didn't even know existed. You can build programs from source in other distros
+as well but gentoo makes it easier and forces you to do that
+and be honest, If you could install binary package in 10 seconds
+you wouldn't even bother compile it from the source.
+
+You install less packages.
+----------------------
+In order to avoid compilation you tent to install less pieces of software
+resulting in more stable and more performant system. God forbit you if
+you are using arch linux and have access to the AUR 
+(I had installed more than 2000 useless packages on my arch system). 
+
+It is more secure and faster and more lightweight (at least in theory).
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+I have not noticed any significant difference in terms of performance 
+between gentoo and binary based distros and I kind of think that security 
+on client OSes is overrated, but for some few people these might be important 
+since you literally can skip some useless parts of a program (useless for you of course)
+resulting in less bloated, therefore faster and more secure programs, but again I 
+don't really find it that important.
+
+<strong class="color4">No systemd</strong>!
+-------------------------------------------
+I am not against systemd but I prefer to not use it.
+On gentoo the default init system is openrc and it works 
+with not problem.
+
+
+Bad parts.
+----------
+Like everything it has some negative stuff about it as well,
+those are
+* Compilation can take some time.
+* Gentoo is the one of <strong class="color1">the hardest</strong>distro to manage.  
+I am saying both of those with an asterisk, because 
+since I agree that there are some programs that you basically have to have 
+like a browser, (it took 6h to compile a browser on my machine) most of the time
+if a piece of software takes
+much time to compile that indicates that piece of software is 
+overcompilcated and shouldn't even be using that.  
+Gentoo is hard to use but, that also means gentoo foces to know more that 
+becomes a good thing.
+
+So, that is all.
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 <!-- Title: I have a website! -->
 
 I have a website!
------------------
+=================
 
 As of June 13th 2024, the best website on the internet has officially been created.