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On 2025-02-20, whiteman808@paraboletancza.org <whiteman808@paraboletancza.org> wrote:

> I want to build a PC with Gentoo and I need to know how much money 
> should I spend on it.
>
> To clarify, I'll tell more for what I'm going to use PC:
> * computer will be mostly used for programming in languages like C, C++, 
> sysadmin, and testing stuff in the LXC, Docker containers, virtual 
> machines,

For general programming work, you can use any old PC that a Windows
user has thrown in the trash.  Though if you want to run a lot of
docker containers or VMs, you might want to add some RAM.

> * I'll program mainly desktop applications using ncurses, wxWidgets, and 
> embedded,
> * I'm completely not interested in doing computer graphics nor gaming 
> (either playing games and creating),

Then just about anything will work.