Getting gentoo

Gentoo is needlessly complicated, it's just a meme that goes around /g/ in order to frustrate people with how cryptic and hard it is to use. Gentoo is a distro that makes you customise everything from scratch, compile almost everything from source and the entire system is pretty DIY. It's an okay distro if you want to learn more about how Linux works, but it doesn't perform that differently compared to the ton other distros out there.

>>57249354
Thanks for the advice man. What would you recommend then? Ubuntu?

>>57249392
Funtoo, Slackware, Exherbo. They're similar to gentoo but less DIY. Ubuntu is babby's first Linux, you can try out if you want.

>>57249408
well I'm building a new pc after the tech fair next year. I'm looking to shell around $1800. But what I don't want to end up with is a very expensive piece of equipment which I can't use due to my lack of knowledge with linux systems.

>>57249471
Read about Linux. Learn how to program in C (you don't need to be a programmer to use Linux, but it helps). Learn what a package manager is, what a DE is, etc may seem overwhelming but it's all pretty basic stuff.

>>57249471
Some distros that just work:
Debian
Mint
Ubuntu (any flavour, Kubuntu, Lubuntu etc.)

You can do everything in these distros the same as in the difficult to install distros like Gentoo and Arch. If you're familiar with Windows then you won't have any problems.