kel, you'll find that most people who use Gentoo are not new to Linux...in fact there are many comments by myself and others here telling newbies to stay away from Gentoo.
The instructions also walk you through some of the optimizations. For example, generic compilations contain support for many processors, but just by following the instructions it's easy to compile things to only include support for your specific processor.
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