Gentoo and Thinkpad fags, why do you do it? What's the appeal?

I can absolutely see the attraction of a Thinkpad, in fact I persuaded my brother to buy one and would buy one myself if I needed another laptop.

Gentoo is just a meme though.

>>57057709
i like thinkpads because they're nice laptops. gen2 is a meme

I'm running Debian on a T430, and it's the best laptop I've ever had. Doesn't overheat like a MacBook, has awesome battery life, and the keyboard clit has its uses.
I tried installing gentoo on it, all that happened was grub-mkconfig or whatever took about an hour to complete, then my laptop didn't boot

Old thibkpad have a nice quality / price ratio and there is a lot of people using these online so it makes the troubleshoot easier.

New thinkpads are overpriced (despite a built quality above average) and less upgradable than older models

Gentoo is a source based distro that allows you not to compile stuff you don't need hence drastically reducing the number of dependencies. To comparison binary based disto (such as arch and Ubuntu) include support for everything possible and end up bloated.
Gentoo is also despite (PR maybe because of) its meme status the most mainstream and easy way to get rid of systemd

Gentoo on thinkpad is goat because of the documentation available online as there's a lot of gentoo users using thinkpads.

>>57057709
I like thinkpads because they're tough. I like Gentoo because I like tinkering with my operating system.

>>57057709
I like the aesthetics and build quality of thinkpads. Also for smuggie points