I know it was all the rage in 2004 or so to knock on Gentoo ricers, but really, haven't enough of the devs commented on slashdot that 'performance' has nothing to do with it? Maybe people are actually willing to sacrifice compile time for things like USE flags, portage, openrc, etc?

Yeah, I hate it when I have to syscall a binary and recompile my macros!

I can't get no ...privacy.

Fair enough, but the majority of them are still idiots.

Even better, the blog author's "source" is the article on EETimes written by ...the blog author.