Gentoo based distro with binaries and an installer?
 

Is there a distro that has an installer and built-in binaries so compiling is optional and I don't need to do it for big packages?

Wiki .... "Distributions_based_on_Gentoo" :
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distrib...ased_on_Gentoo

Gentoo based: Sabayon used to be issued with "Everything included"
https://distrowatch.com/index.php?di...h=all&year=all
. https://www.sabayon.org/

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Gentoo has installer, look into mirror, there's the installer. :p

http://www.sabayon.org
https://redcorelinux.org
https://www.calculate-linux.org

It looks nice but the fact that they are using SystemD is a deal breaker for me. Unless we can choose which one we can use of course...

Sabayon: See my reply above
Calculate-linux: Using the desktop version, couldn't make it work after the installation (it just didn't started). Using the scratch version, couldn't make the gui come up.

redcore seems very interesting! I will check it out, thanks a lot!

https://distrowatch.com/search.php?status=Active&basedon=Gentoo&defaultinit=Not+systemd

Why are you insisting on gentoo if you don't want to bear the cost of compiling ?. Bragging points ?.

^ It's a shoehorn with teeth.

My biggest problem is compiling the base system (first time compiling when installing) which is HUGE! After that I don't really mind compiling but not EVERYTHING. I don't want to compile GCC and Firefox for example. I want to have a choice. I would go with AUR but it doesn't work all the time in my experience.