Building from source is also just cooler. People be lookin’ if you have blender I stalled, but can’t uninstall it with your package manager. (Super useful)

Also, for tech noobs you can say “I built that”.

It is useful to be able to do. I’ve had a few instances where I needed to swap out some lines of code or change a build flag before a bit of software would work properly.

Install gentoo. Then you’ll be building the defaults for the rest of your life.