> The people who I know that use Gentoo are addicted to constant updates (they apply them more than once a day).

Quite the opposite for me. I struggle to do it once a month. I would often go months without it, but that turned out to be a really bad idea.

No - it's the USE flags that make it awesome. And the ability to apply custom patches, etc as needed.

Probably more addicted to all the compiling and stuff.

There is something about compiling non-trivial software, like the kernel, with all that text flashing by the screen, that is purely satisfying to watch.

I just got the warning from portage yesterday that, in that case, told me it had been 33 days since my last sync.