17 years here. :) I did a bit of distros hopping (surprisingly, the one I loved the most beside Gentoo was KDE Neon, for how polished the interface experience was), but always had a least one gentoo running home. Now all my machines are Gentoo again, it’s just the most stable distros for me (if anything, because it doesn’t try to be smart and let me configure things my way).

Also, now that I’m confident patching big C programs, this is the dream distro for tinkering. I just fork ebuilds in my own portage tree, add my patches in the ebuilds, and just like that, I have patched programs managed by my package manager. Still need to do it with each program update, though, so it’s cool, but not perfect.