Comment by herpderperator

I am so glad I installed Gentoo on a headless box 15 years ago to use as a server (no GUI.) I learned so much about Linux by following the Gentoo handbook and being forced to use SSH and the console for everything, and I absolutely believe it (along with my highly curious personality) is what shaped me for a successful career in tech.

And for what it's worth, I'm still using OpenRC on it and not systemd, a completely free choice that users have with a Gentoo system.

It's such a breath of fresh air to use Portage and Gentoo utilities compared to other stuff. It's designed so well, has beautiful colours, and the terminal output is clean of random warnings or errors that you constantly see with other distros (e.g. when booting or upgrading packages.) All the terminal output from Gentoo tools is super meaningful and formatted consistently.