Wow. I spent a whole day with Arch Linux before I went back to Gentoo. I
am a fanboy.
Actually, my main reason for switching back so soon was because some of the default settings in Arch were borderline bizarre. I deal deal with most stock systems, be it Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, whatever, but I literally couldn't use Arch without reconfiguring the crap out of it.
So now I'm sitting in tty1, waiting for things to compile in tty0 and listening to Machinae Supremacy via mpg123 running in tty3. This is the life.
I also found that getting wpa_supplicant and netplug set up really isn't much of a hassle at all with Gentoo's init scripts. I mean, holy crap it's so damn easy, and it makes life so much easier when I boot the system.