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Tossing Gentoo onto an old Pentium III box, typing
emerge world
and coming back four hours later to see if it's done was awesome.And no, it wasn't done compiling KDE yet.
But I definitely wouldn't want to experiment with Linux on my only PC with no way to look things up if I break networking (or the whole system). Thankfully, this is no longer an issue in the age of smartphones.