Been a CrunchBang/BunsenLabs user for 6 years, switched to ArchLabs exactly 1 month ago

Gentoo waists too much time, you gotta manually install everything directly from source. its not worth the frustration it causes trying to install that shitty distro, it just makes me mad even just thinking about Gentoo

I'll get the ISO and read it if you tell me the path of the file I need to read. If you can't tell me the path of the file I'm going to assume you're trying to waste my time.

user, i am not trolling/joking or anything like that. it was when i was using #! when it was still being updated. i looked in every text file in the whole dang system. dont beleave me then, its not like i lose or win anything and even if say i was trolling you i wouldnt know that my trolling worked...look or dont its up to you, but i guess you could search for a text file with the words NSA in it

id tell you more but lose lips sink ships

Compilation times aren't a problem if you't not using shitware. Occasionally using your CPU to compile xorg or firefox isn't really hard; you still can browse the web and listen to music while waiting; you can even set it with a high nice and do everything you do usually.
See for a proper answer. You got memed hard, kiddo.

but can it be as minimal as crunchbang was?

Do a search yourself. Use grep -r, it's easy that way. I don't feel like downloading it without something concrete.
Don't make extraordinary claims without any backup.

Minimalism =/= small size, low number of packages

I have a Gentoobox that literally only has one package in its World, Emacs. Is that minimalism? Stop wanking your epeen. Someone might take you seriously.

wait until there's a major package change, like the desktop environment, and you're thrown for a loop for a few hours trying to get a workflow. Unless all you're using is twm, xterm and xclock, you'll see something major change every month or so. I'd rather have the relearning experience restricted to the time I install something.

Emacs is a minimal operating system.