WhileI was installing Gentoo on my Toshiba today, going through the same motions I’ve done many times before, I had to smile. I remember the ludicrous compile times and the heart in mouth moments during that first boot waiting to see if you had a working system.
Now, thanks to superb Gentoo documentation that I think has clearly taken a leaf from the Arch wiki, installing Gentoo is almost uneventful. Compile times are way better (depending on package of course) and with the Linux kernel hardware support being so great, it pretty well just works.
I only got the base install done today. Dad life means I have to spread my time around other duties, but I can continue later on.