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I literally installed it 5 days ago on my 14 yo PC: Fedora was too much ahead for my hardware, Slackware had some incompatibilities with it, Debian was crawling slow.
Gentoo is really good: took a day to install it because I needed to learn how to use lvm with initramfs on uefi and some other small things. Not much recompiling thanks to binary repository.
And its blazing fast, my PC is flying like its 2014 again!
Today I have to recompile qtwebengine because I need digikam, and this will take time I guess. But for now I think its worth it.
Yeah, Gentoo is really good, but I dropped it the day I needed to edit a system, so I installed GIMP (there was no binary for it at the time), a few hours later I tried to open the image and realized I had forgotten to add the libpng (or similar) flag so didn't had the support for the image type. Took me less time to install Arch than it would have taken me to recompile Gimp.