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Tried CalculateLinux or any of the other Gentoo respins?
Toorox was the best Gentoo respin. Nothing more than a pure straight gentoo respin. Sabayon was superb before they started to try too hard. Redcore started to try too hard too. Calculate did a little bit of try-hard, but managed to retain enough modest sanity to remain good (at least, still true of the last few times I saw it). Even Funtoo started to go a little wonky.
But if you ever start to think Gentoo's too easy and not taking up enough of your time, you can always go the other way, and jump ship to Exherbo.
I've tried Exherbo more times than I can count, but never managed to make it my daily driver. It really needs that kind of commitment to make the best of it. With Exherbo, you've really got to go from 0 to >9000, with nothing between, becoming a developer of it straight away.
And yeah, +1 Gentoo+binhost. Though I do miss the USE="-*" approach to gentoo (like I did in 2011(ish)), adding things only as needed, per package. Great education. And keeps the system very tight to just meet needs, and no more.
Oh, and also...
No need to leave. There's BedrockLinux, or just distrobox.
~ for the latter of which I was shown this article (titled "I stopped distro-hopping because this tool lets me run everything at once") earlier today on libera.chat from someone who know's Bedrock's been my daily driver for over a decade, with Bedrock being how I ended my distro-hopping, and DistroBox being another way to end distro-hopping. ~ We're now ((at least) two ways) past the days of having to pick just one distro. ;D
Hrmm. While I've never bothered with containers, I don't see why bedrock wouldn't work in a container. Could be easy to test... set up a container with whichever distro, and try run the BedrockLinux hijack installer script on it... Don't blame me if somehow it escapes the containment and eats your whole system ... (~ I don't see why/how it would ~ should be safe ~ but like I say, I don't have experience with containers.)