@thebluemarble @PurpleJillybeans (honestly the best thing about gentoo was that the people in that irc channel did *not* tell me to install something else. they were happy to have me and to explain to me what a kernel is while i was struggling to menuconfig it into something that boots. it was glorious.

i guess the moral of the story is, find out what a person is actually trying to do for before giving any sort of advice :D)