Gentoo Linux: The best there was, the best there is and the best there ever will be

So this thread is a follow up, and a conclusion, to my distro thread.

I’ve been running Gentoo since March. On both my MacBook Pro and Acer Nitro.
Gentoo has been the cure to my distro hopping. And that says a lot.
Installing Gentoo is a science, but it’s not that hard when you really set your mind to it. The Gentoo Wiki is a fantastic resource.
Of course, I had some help from some like-minded friends and TBH I probably would have not pulled through were it not for the wealth of knowledge they provided and the amount of my stupid questions they put up with.
The feeling I got upon finishing up my install after installing GRUB and then rebooting, to be greeted by GRUB and booting in my new system is a thrill I hadn’t got in a long time. It felt like achieving something. Like this is the fruit of my labours.

Gentoo is the best distro for a variety of reasons. One, you get absolute control over your system, over absolutely EVERYTHING. You can tweak Gentoo to run like a premium sports car and squeeze the maximum performance from your hardware.
Portage is awesome. Sure, compiling from source is a time consuming hassle, but Portage is second to only XBPS in terms of sheer efficiency. Pacman is great also, but XBPS reigns supreme.
USE flags are a finicky beast and quite frankly at times can get really annoying, but it ensures nothing you do not want or need is on your system.
A base Gentoo instal is very lean. My fully customized install has 837 packages. A base Devuan install, in comparaison, has 1487.
For Portage, you can customize how much of your computing power you want to assign to it. I have 8 cores, but I assigned 6 so I have a spare two cores to still be able to do other things while Portage compiles stuff.
Gentoo is a bonding experience with your hardware like no other and short of Linux From Scratch (LFS) there is no better way to learn the inner workings of Linux.
Gentoo comes free of SystemD although there is a way to build a SysD system although I cannot think of why someone would want to do that. Gentoo is the originator of OpenRC which is FAR, FAR superior.

Now. Gentoo comes with some negatives.
You will have to fix things that break
You will have to deal with occasional issues when updating
Gentoo will not hold your hand and you will have to do your research and figure it out.
But, Gentoo is a fantastic distro. I never could satiate my thirst for THE perfect distro… and then I did Gentoo.

And Carabas — you run Redcore. You have access to Portage and updating in CLI. You could manually manage USE flags and anything just as you would in Gentoo. You have the perfect base to learn upon.

So yeah. The best there was, there is, and there ever will be. There is a reason why Gentoo is so appreciated by the crazy brave who tackle that journey.

Redcore is really nice and sweet out of the box so for a lazy grumpy frog like me it's pretty much ideal.

And yet you have the full Portage and could do manual config and do Gentoo as Gentoo should you so wish. Redcore has a few things that I don’t like but it’s a very solid Gentoo entry level.
I’m gonna need to dig in a Redcore make.conf just to get a glimpse at the USE, CPU, RUST flags