[IgorPartola]

Compare a multi-hour bootstrapping process of Gentoo with the under 10 minute installation of Ubuntu. When you are trying to quickly bring up a new server (especially as the old one is failing), this counts.

Also from my years of using Gentoo, you had to babysit a large portion of the initial installation.

[misnome]

Along with having to spend a load of time re-reading the documents because you aren't installing your system on a weekly basis.