Installing Gentoo for the 213th time

I've been running Arch on my server for quite a while (bad idea I know) and despite it being Arch, I didn't really have any problems. But as we all know, when something works, you better change it. Or... something like that.

The hardware

My server is actually a mid 2011 Mac Mini with a 2nd generation Core i5, some ancient ATI graphics, and 16 GB of RAM (on Apple's website it says it only supports up to 8, but I've got it working fine with 16 so Apple's just lying idk). It's a perfect little computer to use as a server; it's small, relatively quiet (I'll get to that), and has low power consumption.

Its only problem is heat management. Apple's never been good with that, and this Mac is no exception. As soon as you push the CPU even a little bit, it starts sounding like a jet engine. And you can imagine how installing Gentoo might push the CPU a little bit. Thankfully there are now binary packages in Gentoo, so the amount of suffering is considerably reduced. During normal operation as a server (just sitting there), it isn't really a problem, the fan rarely spins up, but the computer is still quite warm and I wish it just wasn't.

The software

I decided to go with the OpenRC stage archive (because of course) and the minimal profile, with no desktop. I was using GNOME previously when running Arch (yes very wise for a server), but this time I decided I really want my installation to be minimal, so no desktop only TTY. Next I installed Caddy as the web server/reverse proxy and Tuwunel (successor of Conduwuit) for my Matrix server. And of course all the usual utilities like OpenSSH, VIM and stuff like that.

The result is a hopefully stable system which will last me well... until I get bored again and decide it's time to switch distros. But I think it will be a while. The only thing about Gentoo that bugs me is how s l o w emerge is, but it's not like you're updating/installing new software on a server every day.