I ran Gentoo for about 5 years. Most people miss the point of it. It was created to create other "distributions." Where I worked, we actually needed that capabi

I ran Gentoo for about 5 years. Most people miss the point of it. It was created to create other "distributions." Where I worked, we actually needed that capability, but never found the time to create our own profile, and prune our own portage tree. Missed opportunity! If you need that sort of thing, great, but don't run it on a desktop thinking that it will give you any more "performance" than another distro. That's been debunked handily.