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I remember jumping from Ubuntu (my first distro) to a Gentoo stage 2 install in 2005. I was using it on my desktop so I needed a GUI. I was using either a high end P4 or an X2 Athlon. I attempted to compile KDE and all the deps. It would compile X for about 10-20 hours... and then the compilation would break with a seemingly obscure error message.
I tried a few times and never did get a GUI built.
Today on Intel i7/Xeon with 16gb ram I go from a stage3 to full GUI (plasma, no libreoffice or such) in a few hours.
I've considered giving it a go again since I have a 24 core Threadripper which could easily compile everything pretty quickly, I just never got around to it.