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Nowadays gentoo already offers binary packages natively, if the user wants them ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart ). Default is sill to compile locally. But for large packages like libreoffice or browsers the binary packages are nice.

But i can see the benefit for new users in getting sth pre configured. For this to be long term usefull though,the documentation is crucial. Maybe just offering the guide to this specific install or how it differs from the standard install manual, like sakakis install guide (sadly defunct).

That’s good since I just learned Bazzite drains my laptop battery and It is a pain to change anything

I’m curious to see how they will handle immutability and what will it set apart from other distros like fedora atomic.

Most immutable distros have limitations on installing CLI tools because they are designed to have flatpak as the main package manager. It’d be cool if they had some tricks for installing software in the user/data partition like you can do with homebrew in bazzite, but better integrated into the system package manager (I’m imagining a gentoo prefix integrated into a unified package manager)

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