Gentoo vs Arch : DistroHopping
www.reddit.com › comments › l52ulbWith Gentoo you can tailor your OS to your very specific needs and taste, but that's at the cost of compilation. Meanwhile with Arch you can get great customization capabilities, but to a lesser degree than with Gentoo. The upside is that you don't have to compile everything if you don't want to, so the upside of Arch is versatility.
Gentoo vs Arch? : linux - reddit
www.reddit.com › comments › 6osi8cGentoo being sourced based makes cramming it onto new or exotic hardware an absolute breeze. If you have packages that need special patches, you can have them compiled in on the fly by adding the patch file in /etc/portage/patches/. Arch is a lot more rigid. They specifically support x86 and x86_64 platforms.