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Is gentoo Linux really worth it?
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If you are looking for a good OS for privacy I would recommend Qubes OS, it completely blows away pretty much everything else besides tails. Gentoo is not exactly the most private of operating systems apart from the usual linux privacy.
Seconding the qubes recommendation but tails is fantastic as well and can be isolated to a usb drive
I had a great time using Qubes. It made me learn about the Xen hypervisor and CoW filesystems.
However, if OP complains about build times being too long on their CPU, I'm not sure they will get Qubes running smoothly on the same hardware. I'm especially worried about every VM besides dom0 being software rendered.