They tell you.
They tell you.
The claims about how great arch is are almost word for word what people used to say about gentoo.
Sure both distributions let you build your system from scratch but the days upon days of compiling just to slightly optimize a binary is squarely a gentooism.
Gentoo Linux is a great distro for those who want to learn everything about Linux. Because you have to install everything manually, you learn all the bits and pieces of a Linux-based operating system.
Gentoo is the most customizable distribution.
Gentoo also one of the best rolling releases. It’s always updated. Users always run the latest packages.
Gentoo is also known for having excellent documentation. The Gentoo Wiki is my to-go resource for everything Linux related.
What I like the most about Gentoo is that is offers almost every package and software that’s available for “any” Linux distribution
full disclosure: used to be a gentoo dev / am currently an Exherbo (rolling release/source distro) Dev.