u/Illustrious_Egg_2725

I'm currently in a distrohopping journey on a secondary machine (a cheap laptop), and I've been trying some Linux systems. So I'm not looking to try stuff rather than looking for a daily driver.

Is gentoo actually a hobby as people say on the internet or the installation is the only hassle and the rest is easy and not so time consuming?

I have seen that you can either compile stuff or use binaries, does using binaries for large programs saves you most of the time? Is compilation the only thing that consumes time? Are dependency hells a common thing?

Is it like the attatched image?