Happy 24th Birthday, Gentoo Linux! 

When I started using it in 2004, it was not for performance tuning reasons, but to be able to install exactly the software I want and with exactly the versions I want. All my laptops (ThinkPads) and various servers ran on it since then, which makes me a #Gentoo #Linux user for almost 20 years. 

 @4d9fc3ff Happy to hear that ;) I did mostly the same and have been running my gentoo for 10 years, accross various laptops. I miss  emerge/portage so much when I have to use any other distro 

 I need to correct myself. I started using #Gentoo in 2002. I just found an old post of mine from 2004, and I think my older me did know it better.