Can't really agree with the above. Its fine if its a pc at home, but simply the length of time it takes makes it unfeasible for many. For me I like to attend site, install o.s, leave site. 30 mins is what I call reasonable to have a fresh install up and running, all customers back online and go back home. Gentoo for me just doesn't offer that, and has issues about what you can do if limited equipment/time etc, not everyone is able to look up google when installing an o.s, again fine if its by your side. Good server o.s's should be quick to install blind to the rest of the internet. Maybe there's a way around it, and for sure gentoo benefits some who have the facilities, but there's simply no way I would ever entertain such a system without "already" knowing it very well, then maybe as would learn some shortcuts (if there are some). On my own pc, yes, no problem. I do fully understand those who support gentoo and their reasonings, and not disagreeing it works for them and its a good o.s and philosophy of one, but for a lot of people its simply not practical in my book for a server, especially if new to it and linux.
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