How hard is Gentoo to use?

Another major disadvantage of Gentoo Linux is the difficulty factor. You can not expect to install this distro easily and have it work out-of-the-box. Certain distributions are meant to be installed and configured with little input from the user, and others require knowledge and experience to use properly.

What distro is Gentoo based on?

Linux
What is Gentoo? Gentoo is a free operating system based on Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance, and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.

Is Gentoo good for laptops?

I would absolutely recommend gentoo for your dev laptop. Its also nice having the pentoo overlay for my pentests.

What is special about Gentoo?

Gentoo encourages users to build a Linux kernel tailored to their particular hardware. It allows very fine control of which services are installed and running. Memory usage can also be reduced compared to other distributions by omitting unnecessary kernel features and services.

Is Gentoo good for old PCS?

Gentoo is an excellent choice: I love it! But it needs a lot of time. If you want to minimize downtime, a binary distribution might be better. Gentoo will be my first source based distribution.

Is Gentoo good for developers?

Because Gentoo is source based, many software development prerequisites are installed. This makes Gentoo very suitable for software development, and testing against multiple versions of compilers, and interpreters.

Is Gentoo beginner friendly?

Gentoo is indeed a good way to learn about Linux but you’ll need to invest some time and patience on it. This is not the easiest distro for a beginner. I strongly recommend learning basic shell / unix commands before (cd, mv, ls, cat , pwd, grep, | , >, >> , vim or nano , cp , )