running&#x2F;building a full plasma 5.5 KDE 5.x current. Full install including most office apps (Libreoffice, etc), a bunch of emulators&#x2F;games (free and proprietary - steam included), and other apps.<p>Intel haswell&#x2F;sandy bridge chromebooks with custom hard drives. I think you&#x27;re greatly overestimating how difficult it is to maintain all of this on Portage. I invite you to try a distribution that isn&#x27;t Debian or Redhat-based. You might never go back.