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Gentoo vs any other distro
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Gentoo is basically arch but built around everything being compiled locally. There isn't to my knowledge any "Gentoo-install", but if you can manage to install arch manually it should be quite similar. Gentoo is a bit more complex than arch so if installing gentoo manually seems daunting I would recommend staying on arch.
Why? How will he progress if he don't try harder things?
There is still a lot to learn from running arch before you try gentoo
Fair enough, personally I prefer to skip a few steps and then try to figure out what's going on. It's not the best approach, but I find it more interesting.