When CPUs were a lot slower you could genuinely get noticeable performance improvements by compiling packages yourself, but nowadays the overhead from running pre-compiled binaries is negligible.

Hell, even Gentoo optionally offers binary packages now.

Now imagine the same meme but with Gentoo and LFS

That’s a perfect way to put it. From constantly relying on ProtonDB to occasionally checking areweanticheatyet.com.

Mindlessly watching glxgears is the greatest experience a GPU can render.