I've built a custom kernel and updated my `cmdline.txt` to point `root=` at the Gentoo partition. Damn this thing flies on Gentoo.
I had Debian momentarily on NVMe as I re-arranged things on the eMMC, and didn't notice much of a speed-up, notably opening a terminal window took ~30 seconds or more, whether running from eMMC or NVMe.
On Gentoo, it's practically instant (booting from NVMe).
I have some graphics acceleration issues to sort out in X11, but things are a lot more responsive.
Maybe it's all that `systemd` junk. It certainly isn't my CFLAGS because they're as plain as they come: `-O2 -pipe`.
#CM5 #Gentoo
