I’ve installed gentoo but there seems like there’s so many sacrifices. I love that it’s all open source, but I really don’t mind closed source software now and then, because after all I would be using it to play closed source games. The biggest compromise I’ve observed is the very long build times. I have a lukewarm cpu(i3 10100) and it’s powerful enough for good gaming but the build times are still like 10x minimum for some software. All this to say, is using gentoo really worth it? I love the idea behind it, and if I was doing criminal activity I’d definitely use it, but is there some absolute upside to it or is it a really good OS for privacy that sacrifices in usability?
I had a great time using Qubes. It made me learn about the Xen hypervisor and CoW filesystems.
However, if OP complains about build times being too long on their CPU, I’m not sure they will get Qubes running smoothly on the same hardware. I’m especially worried about every VM besides dom0 being software rendered.