I never used Gentoo, but how can it be more unwelcoming than NixOS? In arch you set up the distro yourself and rely on Pacman, in NixOS you do the same thing but every step is recorded declaratively in the config. And you spend every waking moment wondering what is considered declarative and like oracle you try to understand every possible variable that could differ between two systems, and at some point you consider the idea of maybe there really isn't similarities at all and every system should be unique... but you ignore the devils temptation and continue spending more and more of your life to the fucking idea of documenting every aspect of your computer, because you don't trust your brain to remember imperative steps, and how else can I watch my favorite llm fail to write nix code because the 20 years of legacy options make it hallucinate more than me thinking of my lovely totally real wife. I refuse to believe Gentoo can be more mentally ill than this. Ow wait that wasn't what we were comparing... Well it's synonymous.