Gentoo here, been running it as a daily driver for nearly two years now after migrating from Debian. Didn’t have any issues with Debian but I wanted to try a few packages with some custom patching which is difficult with the deb package system, and I wanted to have the software managed through the system package manager.

To be honest, I still wouldn’t recommend Gentoo for anyone new to Linux for obvious reasons but if you’re an experienced user I would really recommend giving it a go. Despite what I expected, it’s been absolutely rock-solid for me, and very performant. Once you get your head around the intricacies of the portage system it’s quite straightforward to use and the USE flag system is incredibly powerful. Every piece of software I’ve needed has been in the package repository or an overlay and everything has pretty much worked out of the box once I got my kernel configuration locked in - and if you don’t feel like configuring a kernel it’s super straightforward to use a pre-configured one. On a more personal note it’s definitely made me a more experienced Linux user as well.