Since 2013 I think 10 years with the same two installs.

Whenever arch switched to pulse audio because Ubuntu did it. But it was completely broken on my setup so the question that drove me to gentoo was “How do I rollback?” the answer was use the previous packages in the cache which I had cleaned :/.

Using portage is so much more powerful and does exactly what it says, and there’s is usually always a way to get back to a working state.

Since 2004 - 19 years! I moved to it because at the time I kept getting stuck in dependency hell on other distributions I’d tried and Portage at least gave me the knowledge and tools to fix things myself.

I just started using it in the past month or so. I doubt I’ll ever go back to any other distro. I tried it once in the past but gave up because I didn’t have the time to actually learn it. Now that I have it’s amazing. I like having control over not only what packages get installed (ala Arch) but also what is contained in those packages.

It’s been a lot of fun learning and renewed my love for computing.

Edit: been using Linux for about 20 years now. Started with Ubuntu