Man, I tried Sabayon twice (both a long time ago) and quickly regretted it both times. In my experience, it was extremely fragile. I had used Gentoo at the time and had a mostly good time with it, and wanted to try something that set it up easily.

Gentoo now gives you the option to either compile or install a binary.

Yup, I remember that too

I don’t think it’s as popular as it used to be.