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Emerge does much more than just compile (it involves checking the changelog, patching the sources, respecting the USE flags etc.), but you are generally right.
Sabayon's binary packages sacrifice Gentoo's "selling point" of being a flexible "meta distribution" though, and it was reported that there are more disadvantages in daily usage. I haven't tried Sabayon, I went right from Void to Gentoo because of that.
At least Gentoo has official binary packages for the most annoying ports, i.e. LibreOffice and Firefox.
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I own a Gentoo laptop, but I really don't think Ubuntu users should dive into Gentoo over night ... :-)
Also, Gentoo supports
systemd
officially (at least as a choice). But at least you have the chance to install the (quite acceptable) OpenRC instead.Let's try Sabayon. Gentoo based with binary packages.
You still have portage available and you can emerge (compile - note for others) packages into the system (they share the same database).
Emerge does much more than just compile (it involves checking the changelog, patching the sources, respecting the USE flags etc.), but you are generally right.
Sabayon's binary packages sacrifice Gentoo's "selling point" of being a flexible "meta distribution" though, and it was reported that there are more disadvantages in daily usage. I haven't tried Sabayon, I went right from Void to Gentoo because of that.
At least Gentoo has official binary packages for the most annoying ports, i.e. LibreOffice and Firefox.