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I tried Gentoo because I like the idea of it, but couldn't get it properly installed/setup. There was nothing exotic about the hardware, but something or other failed a build step and I eventually gave up.
May I ask what failed a build step for you? (Most likely I can't give you any advice, as I only got into Gentoo a few months ago, but I'm still interested in knowing.)
I actually had some trouble with installing Gentoo myself, though it didn't fail any builds for me. I needed full-disk encryption. I followed this guide (except for the part about configuring the kernel; I'm using the pre-configured distribution kernel for now), but it didn't work. On boot, Gentoo would throw an error message about "Failed to find LUKS device", then exit to the fallback shell. Searching the message gave me this forum thread, I tried several of the things that thread says to. What finally made it work is
dracut --force -H --kver <gentoo-kernel-bin-version>. I need to re-run this command every time I upgrade the kernel to a new version so that the new version works.I can't remember now, sorry. It was BC ("before Covid"), so not recent.