Having extensively used Gentoo on the desktop (laptop, even!) mostly just makes me grumpier at all the time and money we waste doing shit our OS could do for us with way less effort. But nobody likes those solutions these days, they want to re-invent system services as fragile, fiddly crap with a Web dashboard.
It’s handy to know because sometimes I can save day, but mostly just means I can name the older, better thing we’re spending a dump truck of money to do the hard, worse way.