This post does double duty as a rant and as a praise, both having _very_
strong opinions, you have been warned.

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More than three years ago, I was forced to keep up with Arch Linux,
easily one of the worst Linux distributions on existence, mostly because
my associate, the owner of <https://kalli.st> is a literal fanatic that
refuses to know better (to the point of having told him, several times,
until I gave up), who will install the damn thing where it isn't
supposed to be installed: servers.

Worst mistake ever, in my opinion, but at least I can attest that I had
somewhat of a choice during the years, one of those being moving to
FreeBSD (back when the main server, currently bearing the name of
Laid-Back Systems), because I was getting perpetually burnt out from
dealing with sheer levels of stupidity, until I decided to banish the
domain name (and a Misskey instance that I will not bring back)
to the secondary server, also stuck on Arch, for different reasons.

Back to last year, a `pacman -Syu` obliterated the system for about an
entire weekend due to obviously faulty D-Bus and systemd versions, which
prevented the server from booting at all until I took matters in my
hands, moving it to Artix, but by then, I had announced that I was going
to do a radical change: having YakumoLabs adopt Gentoo Linux, alongside
*BSD.

Time and time again I found myself being forced to edit PKGBUILD files
straight from the AUR because of unsuitable default configuration
values, then having to deal with upgrades in regards to said modified
files manually, et cetera.

Until yesterday, where I said no more.

Years ago, I used to hold a bad opinion of Gentoo Linux, but it was
completely baseless as I had never tried it then, not to mention I deal
with rather ancient workstations so building everything was just not
feasible, but what I experienced yesterday, was, if anything, completely
different, and honestly kind of cool, particularly since I have been a
*BSD admin for a while now, so it kind of felt right to pick this
choice.

Besides, Gentoo already provides binary packages to some extent if one
doesn't want to (re)build anything, which, would make the existence of
Arch Linux completely pointless.

Magic just got real. Fuck you, Arch Linux.