Gentoo hardened stage3 on desktop?

[whiteman808]

I had installed gentoo and using desktop profile now. I tried different distros like Debian, Slackware, Arch, and finally, end distrohopping on Gentoo. I love Gentoo for great flexibility it offers, portability, and well-written documentation. USE flags are nice feature.

On the virtual machines gentoo hardened works fine.

I want to know your experiences with using Gentoo hardened profiles on the desktop daily-driver. I want to try use hardened stage3 on ThinkPad X220 because Gentoo hardened profile's default USE flag set is more minimal than default desktop's, so I have less stuff to globally disable and I can enable support for stuff I'm sure I'll need it. Another nice features are hardened toolchain and hardened USE flag.

I'm just curious if there are any issues with hardened profiles on desktop. I'm going to run some window manager + emacs + nyxt on desktop. Does minimalistic desktop configuration like mine vs full-blown GNOME/KDE + Firefox + Thunderbird make difference when I use stage3 hardened?

Please share your experience with using hardened stage3 as daily-driver on desktop computer.

[toralf]

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Desktop_Profiles#hardened-desktop

I do run hardened Desktop (KDE) since 10 yrs at Lenove ThinkPads without any bigger problems.