idfk how to install (not download) gentoo. again asking which one i should try:

@hacknorris Try Void! It has pretty good (and short!) documentation that helps you make the first steps. It gets pretty straightforward once you get around basic things. If you like building from source, it has xbps-src which is pretty easy to use and the documentation is pretty straightforward too if you are not on some weird architecture.

@m0xee means - im not newbie to linux, i was even trying with LFS. BUT gentoo even for me is too hardcore :/

@hacknorris Gentoo is bad not because it's complex or hard to understand, but because everything breaks constantly. I used Gentoo everywhere 15 years ago, but had to give up on it since I had to spend half a day fixing it after every single upgrade: something starts segfaulting, you run it under gdb trying to figure out what that is, find it, rebuild the broken lib, something else breaks, you find it, rebuild it, rinse, repeat…

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@hacknorris Void on the other hand, despite being maintained by a small team break like almost never. In two years only a couple of things got broken: openssh on x86, not x64 — it was broken upstream and it got patched in Void in like a couple of days. And UI for third party add-ons in Firefox running in Wayland — this one a had to patch and build manually. But it was broken in Firefox for 3 releases, definitely not Void's fault.

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