Comment by yesimahuman

I owe Gentoo for making me proficient with linux and the command line, and starting my long passion for programming and building dynamic web apps. I remember compiling my custom build for days on my parent's Gateway PC with a pentium 3 and liking Gentoo because I felt like I could make it faster by picking -O3 for everything which you wouldn't get with the mainstream distro's :). I also remember just liking the color scheme and the attention to the CLI experience (funny how little things like that can matter!) I ran my first websites off that little machine. Wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today without Gentoo.