I think people just kinda like to personify things, it happens all the time even with things that aren’t even close to human

Swap your car or plane ride for a bus or train

Kinda hard to do when there’s nowhere near enough investment in public transit

I’ve found Gentoo kinda frustrating too, having installed it on my laptop just to try it out as a habitual Arch user. Source packages mean updates take a lot longer and will also destroy my battery if I’m not plugged in, there seem to be fewer packages than on Arch, the installation wasn’t exactly 100% smooth, etc. I can definitely appreciate Gentoo, but it really seems like it’s just not for me. My guess will be that you’ll find Arch a bit easier to work with.

That’s why I use ‘fem’ instead, also just kinda makes more sense imo, as a shortening of ‘feminine’