My PC boots faster than my monitor turns on

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/56372752

I thought arch was all about reducing bloat. Is gentoo better than arch?
Gentoo recompiles everything, so it can do optimisations based on your particular setup Arch can’t.
You can also just recompile the kernel and any utils yourself on Arch, if you want
You can recompile the kernel in any distro. In Gentoo, you have to compile the kernel (because you compile everything).

In Gentoo, you have to compile the kernel

This is not true any more. Gentoo provides sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin as an option.

Distribution Kernel - Gentoo wiki