What do you think about gentoo linux/unix

[Drunknpriest]

Thinking about giving it a try because I am tired of this Win 7. I have been an on and off user of linux/unix OS in the past, and I know that I am not a fan of any form of ububtu(there is just a lack of customization). So I am doing some reading and it looks like gentoo is a pretty good OS, just wondering if any of you have suggestions or comments about linux/unix OS.

[proxx]

I run gentoo on my second desktop machine.
Overall I'm happy with it , can be hard to manage for a beginner.
Yeah you break stuff and you learn , most of my learning has been and still is on arch, but I use various distro's.
Sometimes you just want to get shit done and a missing lib is not alway's fun
You will have to look into kernel compilation , which btw isn't as hard as it sounds but a skill to master.
Binary option seems kinda fishy.

[Drunknpriest]

Thanks appreciate it I'll test it out and if it is to complicated for me then I will try out something else.

[kenjoe41]

The next thing i would recommend other than Arch would be Gentoo. Install everything from source, get you hands dirty and never forget any library you had to hunt the net for just to run that snakes game. HehE