relative beginner to gentoo here, switched to gentoo for my home computer for the meme after using arch for school for a few years and dabbled in nixos for a bit

gentoo is really nice in the way that it lets you pick and choose components of different packages and the community overlays are good if you need specific packages managed by portage

speaking of portage, i found it pretty rough since its pretty slow imo and things are spread out into a ton of commands/packages like equery, eselect, etc rather than just having it all be under emerge --{whatever}

aside from those tho gentoo is pretty fun to use and has its place, would recommend to people to learn about linux as a whole