Me downloading Gentoo: Haha, fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me compiling every component of the OS: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck?
Discussion
#[0] i was trying to install librewolf on an arch install
2 hours later it was still compiling so I shrugged and just used firefox
I mean this seriously. Is it really worth running arch?
It's great until your start relying on it and then it breaks (it will break) and you just don't want to deal with it.
If all you do is tinker endlessly and don't have anything that you actually need to get done reliably, then it's great until it's not, in which case you get to tinker so it's still great.
But I don't tend to use it.
Artix is ironically more stable (slacking on running sudo pacman -Syu or yay aside) than mainline Arch, most likely due to its lack of crapd dependencies.