Gentoo is a very good system. I've used it, and I really enjoyed it.

Moving on. It seems like you went into the whole ordeal with the attitude that Gentoo was a terrible thing and it was going to be terribly hard. Obviously you didn't look around the Gentoo website the very hard, or you would have found:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...ndbook-x86.xml
Three Chapters down to:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...?part=1&chap=3 which is the x86 "GUI" install that you were complaining that Gentoo didn't offer to x86.

Why wouldn't they offer GUI to x86, probably their biggest platform? Did you bother looking at the docs, or did you just dive right in, and assume a bunch of things? Here, I'll even give you the download:

http://bouncer.gentoo.org/?product=g...-livecd&os=x86

Good luck installing Gentoo, it's a great system

enmand