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I recently managed to install Gentoo (mostly thanks to the gentoo matrix room) and I just love it.
Gentoo is one of my go-to's that I come back to time and time again.
I don't mind spending my time with Gentoo as one can have very stable systems with it (as per your choosing), and if one uses a half decent machine to do all the building, it can supply more lowly machines with a current repository of binary builds.
Yes, it has it's headaches from time to time (similar to the mention above about Arch and what happens if you don't update for some time), but nothing insurmountable.