Intel drivers:

The times I’ve tried to look into it their fanbase seemed a bit toxic, they are really keen in that you have to read the fucking manual and that every possible question possible about (Free|Open)BSD is already solved in it. And they hold a very weird grudge against Linux because it’s more popular.

Probably FreeBSD devs are cool people and it seems this latest years they have been doing great amounts of work on making FreeBSD available and enjoyable for most people bringing the hot stuff, but on the OpenBSD side of things if Linus Freaking Torvalds tells Theo de Raadt is a “difficult person”…

When Python 3.something hit they did a massive overhaul on emerge’s resolution algorythm so it helped a lot when resolving stuff - and now you almost never need to use revdep.rebuild or things like that, I frankly forgot when it was the last time I used it, probably it has been years. Plus now things like binaries for heavy packages, portage hooks and stuff like that makes things a lot easier for people coming in. I’m really not sure why people still bitch on it or why some people seem to need every package they install available right away… but at least for me it’s been great all this years.

but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER!

Do you mean all the tears of people bitching on Gentoo because it is allegedly difficult to install were in vain?

Though on a serious note, I unironically wanted Gentoo/BSD to keep existing so I could move to it. I like FreeBSD (but not its users) or DragonflyBSD but pkg/pkgsrc can’t hold a candle to Portage in terms of letting you fine tune your install.

This is the actual only correct answer. Plan9 is unix but better and with an animal pet like Linux.