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Not sure if I will continue using Gentoo, but thats what I've been using for the past.
I was curious just to try to install it, but after I did it and learned about portage (package manager) and the USE flags and I really liked it beacause it gives you so much control. For example, dont want packages to have bluetooth because your motherboard doesn't support bluetooth? You can do it via USE flags per package or globally. Idk I just really like this.
But im hella busy rn in college so I might go back to arch or fedora.
Edit: Brain no worky meant to say for the past month.... mb
Fellow Gentoo user here, personally I find that most of the time, it doesn't really take extra time once it's been set up. World updates do take ages, but they can be done in the background. Most of the time my config doesn't break anything.