I literally installed it 5 days ago on my 14 yo PC: Fedora was too much ahead for my hardware, Slackware had some incompatibilities with it, Debian was crawling slow.

Gentoo is really good: took a day to install it because I needed to learn how to use lvm with initramfs on uefi and some other small things. Not much recompiling thanks to binary repository.

And its blazing fast, my PC is flying like its 2014 again!

Today I have to recompile qtwebengine because I need digikam, and this will take time I guess. But for now I think its worth it.

Reading PKGBUILD won’t save you if you don’t read the code or if the PKGBUILD installs a prebuilt bin. Same as Slackbuild or a third-party APT repository: you need to understand what a supply-chain attack is and do your duly work to prevent it, or stick with the consequences.