Same for me, I think I first tried Gentoo. Becoming completely obsessed how to make my system as fast and stable as possible I did the LFS tutorial. Before all

Same for me, I think I first tried Gentoo. Becoming completely obsessed how to make my system as fast and stable as possible I did the LFS tutorial. Before all that I had been using SuSE and was so frustrated how long it took to boot (~1 minute) and how cumbersome it was to build from source. On Gentoo/LFS that was just a breeze.