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Arch is about telling other people what you use. If you use gentoo, you can take way more pride in you installation.
Arch is pourover coffee; Gentoo is those ridiculous Rube Goldberg setups that take 45 minutes to make a single cup. Both are for hipsters.
Ubuntu is that shitty Keurig machine with big plastic pods, but they call them "snaps".
Does that make Debian standard filter coffee? The coffee everyone can get behind π«Ά
I'd argue that there's literally no difference in difficulty of installing Arch vs Gentoo vs LFS. The only difference lies in the convenience of package management. Arch is very convenient, everything is precompiled. Gentoo is more time consuming. No difference in setting stuff up tho. LFS makes you be the package manager. Which isn't really difficult, all programs clearly state which dependencies they have, but it's just much more time consuming.
After restarting the installation for the 5th time, and wasting 5 hours compiling the kernel each time, you should be proud you finally can type on the TTY.
My 13 years old AMD FX-6300 can compile kernel in about half an hour. Sounds like a skill issue.
How long does it take to open the Wikipedia page on hyperbole?