I used, and loved, Gentoo for quite a while maybe 15 years ago. However, over time my installs inevitably got more broken (probably my fault). But thanks to my Gentoo experience I would never use a non rolling-release system anymore so Debian testing is my jam for the foreseeable future.
That's also what happened to me. I'm not the sort who updates frequently (even on Arch), and the repeated blocking packages under Gentoo eventually got annoying.
But mostly it was the build times for me. Package breakage isn't difficult to fix. Long build times, however, eventually got tiresome.
But that was 8 years ago. Hardware has markedly improved, and I'm sure it's hardly an issue these days (it's not on the Gentoo images I run). But, I'm hugely fond of Arch.
I used, and loved, Gentoo for quite a while maybe 15 years ago. However, over time my installs inevitably got more broken (probably my fault). But thanks to my Gentoo experience I would never use a non rolling-release system anymore so Debian testing is my jam for the foreseeable future.
That's also what happened to me. I'm not the sort who updates frequently (even on Arch), and the repeated blocking packages under Gentoo eventually got annoying.
But mostly it was the build times for me. Package breakage isn't difficult to fix. Long build times, however, eventually got tiresome.
But that was 8 years ago. Hardware has markedly improved, and I'm sure it's hardly an issue these days (it's not on the Gentoo images I run). But, I'm hugely fond of Arch.