In my experience, the #Arch wiki is usually more helpful than the #Gentoo wiki. Except, obviously, when it comes to portage / emerge.
(Arch needs it, because I've seen their users discussing changes and updates that need manual intervention far more often than any Gentoo users would tolerate.)
In late 2002 I got a desktop computer with #WinXP, an Intel Celeron processor and 128M of RAM. It was a little slow from day one. It got worse with each update, so when it got to where I'd turn it on and wait almost an hour before it was ready to use, I installed #SuSE (briefly) and then #Gentoo. Eventually, I added RAM and got it to 1G but by that time, for the same price, I could have bought something much faster.
Toward the end of its life, I used it only as a print server. It went into electronics recycling around 2014.
@amic I still love me some #Gentoo, but I've mostly run #Debian or #Kubuntu the past few years, mostly because of easier access to wireless card drivers and long stretches of travel where Internet access may or may not work.
@geniusmusing That one sounds promising. I might try it out soon.
Also, are you aware of any #Red-Hat derivatives that are #SystemD free? Or are such distributions only available in #Debian and #Gentoo families of Linux distros?
Oldest in-service laptop was on #Funtoo ( a #Gentoo derivative ), but after a year without touching it, I am going to try #Fedora 29 #Lxde on it. 4GiB of RAM and an aftermarket SSD in this one.
This one and the newest are both Dell Inspiron fifteen inch models.
@sampo On my first #Gentoo install, it took longer to compile Ruby (5 days) than it did to build the rest of the system. To be fair, even then, 128MiB of RAM was pretty small.
@dwardoric@racuna@racuna Well, #FreeBSD is pretty rough when you first start it, just as #Arch or #Gentoo. It's up to the user to configure it to their liking. And FreeBSD is nice because it is simple to customize.
@ButterflyOfFire@debian@nizarus 3. Using #bicon (https://github.com/behdad/bicon) + an other terminal, I tried this with #st (https://st.suckless.org/), with the good font, st shows Arabic chars, but do not attach them to get a readable word, bicon do attach them, Gnome-Terminal have the same behavior as st too, but I never managed to compile bicon on #Ubuntu due of libs conflicts I guess.. When I switched to #Gentoo everything worked like a charm.