Reasons I switched to Gentoo from another distro

• A community effort as opposed to a corporate product
• More choice of the packages installed on the system compared to what I'd used before
• Easy (and free) to keep up to date
• BSD ports-like software package distribution/management system
• Tons of software both stable and bleeding edge available in portage
• Support for a wide range of filesystems (reiser, xfs, jfs)
• Support for closed drivers like ATI and nVidia
• Great potential for optimization if I choose
• Great user community

The Reasons I continue to use Gentoo

• All of the above
• Great documentation
• It has taught me a ton about how Linux works
• It has become the best, most comfortable operating environment I've yet to use

What is Gentoo Linux?

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