i say compiling from source… so suck my balls
yeah, it took 3 days for me to get gentoo to boot. once it did it was sweet… minus the extra 2 days it took to get sound working 
yeah from what i hear, gentoo is a ton of command line. i guess its a good way to learn but i woud get way too frustrated
tom don’t bother… just stick with your cheesy distros… and leave the gentoo to the cool people
i would never try. im a sucker for a sweet looking gui 