I've been running Gentoo as my desktop's main operating system for about a year now, so I consider myself something of an expert. At least, I have enough experience to have an informed opinion on the distro, and it's pretty mixed. I'll start by saying I moved from NixOS to Gentoo, pretty much swinging from two ends of the spectrum when it comes to Linux distribution management strategies. On one end you have your entire setup from installed packages to those packages' configurations defined i...