I bought a Compaq laptop with an AMD64 processor back in 2006, my first 64-bit machine. I put Gentoo on it to make sure I had 64-bit support for all the apps be

I bought a Compaq laptop with an AMD64 processor back in 2006, my first 64-bit machine. I put Gentoo on it to make sure I had 64-bit support for all the apps because the major distros at the time weren't all there yet. Man, that thing chugged to compile everything, but I was there... 64-bit everything!