Gentoo was the first linux distribution I ever used, back in the early 2000s. It was a compelling alternative to Slackware, whose liveCD's I'd played around wit

Gentoo was the first linux distribution I ever used, back in the early 2000s. It was a compelling alternative to Slackware, whose liveCD's I'd played around with at the time. Although people complain a lot about it, I do genuinely believe that installing Gentoo taught me a lot about linux, and computing more generally (even if the jokes [0] are true). Arch is very similar: although most of my boxes run a debian flavour, the Arch wiki is excellent and a fantastic source of knowledge. And I've installed it three times -- never telling anyone about it, prior to this conversation. [0]: http://bash.org/?464385 http://bash.org/?464385