Comment by reassembled

Gentoo was the second Linux distro I tried, after Slackware, around 2005 or so. I too feel like playing with Gentoo taught me a lot about Linux, computers and how software is built, and set me up for a successful career in tech. I often get a twinkle in my eye thinking back to getting Gentoo up and running, compiling my kernel and booting into Fluxbox for the first time.