What Stage of Gentoo did you try? I recommend to everyone using Gentoo to start with Stage3, then figure out what you actually want out of your machine and get a set of USE flags that you want to use. Then step back and start from scratch with a Stage2 setup, and get that working how you want. This will be a lot easier to pick up at this point and you will have more control over how the system is setup. After a few weeks of this, I'd suggest then stepping back and going with Stage1 where you have full control of setting up the machine from start to finish. I've recommended this method to a number of my friends who wished to get familiar with Linux and they all said how well it worked for them.
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