Excellent! 

If you can stomach the terminal in Linux, bitcoind is vastly better than bitcoinqt, as you get to visualise what's happening real time, not just a progress bar.

Tips on settings:

-dbcache:4096 (if you can spare 4Gb of RAM until you sync your ledger). Vastly faster.

And for faster searches when you get to use your node with your wallet(Sparrow, etc). 

-blockfilterindex=1
-txindex=1