Górny: why Gentoo?

Gentoo developer Micha Gorny has written a lengthyarticle explaining the philosophy and purpose of the Gentoo Linuxdistribution, in response to athread on Mastodon:

Gentoo is a source-first distribution, which means the primarymethod of installing software is to build it from source. Of course,that doesn't mean manually building stuff, following some kind ofhow-to: finding all the dependencies, installing them manually, goingthrough a series of magical incantations, and eventually ending up nobetter than if we were installing a binary package. The packagemanager takes care of all the necessary steps and more, making packageinstalls easy; well, at least unless something fails. But I'mdigressing...

[...] We try to build a friendly and welcoming community around Gentoo,and we truly want using Gentoo be an enjoyable experience. We want itto be a system that doesn't betray you.